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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Dialectical Journal Evidence Direct quotation‚ summary‚ or paraphrase of text Source Page Number (possible line or paragraph) Interpretation What is important about this passage? What is its effect or purpose? “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come…. That is the life of men.” Chapter 1 Page 1 Paragraph 1 This paragraph is the introduction to the whole novel. Usually an author would use some background information about the main character‚ or maybe even
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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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Introduction/Background Info Basically this story takes place in Japan during the end of World War II. Also everyone is zombified but a few people because when the United States dropped bombs on Japan the radiation had strange effects. And this book turns extremely dark towards the end like extremely dark. DAY 1 As the smoke cleared Charlie could barely see anything there were no words to describe it everything was destroyed or being destroyed. The air smelt like death and there was no sign
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Passage 1: “My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless‚ that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America‚ and over the years they were proven right.” (29) Response: James’ mother was always consistent in saying that money means nothing. School and Church was all you really needed to succeed. His mother was deeply religious and her and her kids went to church every Wednesday and every Sunday. Her kids went until
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1. Maycomb was an old town‚ but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop . . . [s]omehow it was hotter then . . . bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon‚ after their three-o’clock naps‚ and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. . . . There was no hurry‚ for there
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#8: “The stars were shining‚ and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl‚ away off‚ who-whooing about somebody that was dead‚ and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die‚ and the wind was trying to whisper something to me‚ and I couldn’t make out what it was‚ and so it made the cold shivers run over me. Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that’s on its mind and can’t make itself understood
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In the letter from Scout to Jem‚ we see Scout’s’ point of view and how she feels. It shows that she is sad that Boo gave them so much and they did not give him anything in return like a good neighbor should have. To convey this‚ a flowery background symbolizes a neighbor’s job to look after one another and the items in the pouch exhibits what Scout and Jem were given I feel that this establishes a feeling of growing maturity because the flowery background also symbolizes the growth of a young girl
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2) “I saw in their possession was a few lumps of some stuff like half-cooked dough‚ of a dirty lavender color‚ they kept wrapped in leaves‚ and now and then swallowed a piece of‚ but so small that it seemed done more for the looks of the thing than for any serious purpose of sustenance. They were not enemies‚ they were not criminals‚ they were nothing earthly now nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation‚ lying confusedly in the greenish gloom.” In this quote‚ when Marlow was traveling
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Wee Willie Winky‚ an underprivileged man who entertains the people of Methwold’s Estate as a clown‚ is also expectant of child from his wife Vanita‚ who apparently had an illicit affair with her master William Methwold‚ who is the biological father of her unborn child. Both the women‚ Amina and Vanita go into labor pain for straight thirteen days‚ and precisely at the hour of midnight‚ each woman is blessed with a son. Perhaps‚ Mary Pereira who is appointed as a midwife at the nursing home is engrossed
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