The Great Gatsby Journals Chapter One: The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He starts off the story by stating that he learned from his father to not judge other people because he could make the mistake of misunderstanding someone. Nick characterizes himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. He briefly mentions Gatsby. In the summer of 1922‚ Nick moved to New York to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg
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July 06‚ 2012 Journal #2 – Miss Brill “Behind the rotunda the slender trees with yellow leaves down drooping”. This quote represents Miss Brill’s old age. Using the autumn season means that Miss Brill is long past her prime and is about to enter the final stage of her life – winter. Also‚ the “yellow leaves” described in the story are colourless and decayed‚ just like Miss Brill. At the end of the story‚ the boy and the girl basically say that Miss Brill is decayed and obsolete by calling her
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Secret Life of Bees Book Journal Chapter 1 Lily Owens is lying in her bed watching bees squeeze in and out of cracks in her walls. She thinks about her mother‚ who died when Lily was a child. She also thinks about Rosaleen‚ a black woman who looks after her and her father‚ T. Ray. When the bees begin to swarm around Lily‚ she wakes T. Ray to show him but when he comes‚ the bees are gone. He threatens to make her kneel in grits if she wakes him again. Lily decides she will catch some bees in a
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Keaton Nishimi5-29-13428 Chapter 1Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County. But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. Chapter 3 You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of
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CHAPTER 18 MELTING MARBLES Checkpoint Halo It was New Year’s Day‚ and the coffee pot was brewing some fresh coffee. Jerry and Gordon were discussing the raid activities‚ and Sally was checking to see how many hits Abu received from his YouTube announcement. Suddenly‚ the doors of the bunker started to open. Instinctively‚ Gordon and Jerry grabbed their pistols and ran to see who was coming in. A Jeep Cherokee drove down the ramp and stopped before reaching the bottom. A lanky fellow with
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Literature Circles #5: Captain Connecter Connection #1: Pages 164-165 say “Dr. Schneider said Russia. Baba lost it”… “I don’t care where he was born‚ he’s Roussi”… “I swear on your mother’s face I’ll break his arm if he tries to touch me”. This quote shows great similarity to the image above. The image above shows Rosa Parks doing her laundry. The washing machine gives the option of washing colored clothing and white clothing. To this she shows great disapproval. It shows that sometimes
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The Great Gatsby Journal 1 Quote: "I hope she’ll be a foolthat’s the best thing a girl can be in this world‚ a beautiful little fool." This quote‚ from chapter 1 is an important quote said by Daisy Buchanan‚ the second cousin of Nick Carraway‚ narrator of the "Great Gatsby". This quote is significant towards the story because it reveals glimpses into Daisy’s character. Daisy is not a fool herself‚ but due to the times and the extent of her exposure to the social environment‚ she has not
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me wrong. There were times when they could be civilized and tolerant human beings. There was a belief during this time that the Germans and followers of the Germans believed that Jews were aliens‚ but I actually believe the Germans were the aliens. How they could go from being decent individuals‚ as stated in this quote‚ to being madmen who slaughter people for no good reason is utterly beyond me. The aliens must have taken over the minds of the Germans at this point in time. It’s the only logical
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current setting. The stream is described as “sorrowful blackness” which instills a bleak and dreary feeling while you read. The army is called “it” which was awakening. The river is described as “amber-tinted” like as if it was tainted by soldiers’ blood. The figurative language used in the passage to describe the weather such as “retiring fogs” and “cold passed reluctantly” feels like description of the soldiers’ emotion. | "Near the threshold he stopped‚ horror-stricken at the sight of a thing.
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leather by burning it with harsh chemicals. As a result‚ in this line‚ Huck states that he was “tanned”‚ or beaten severely. This harsh definition further recognizes the struggles Huck went through as a child and how poorly he was treated by his father. It also gives more insight to the reader of how horrible Pap was to Huck and helps the reader understand why Huck is much kinder and accepting than most white
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