Gatsby Chapter III notes

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth

Displacement-Character out of place

Anachronism-Character out of time

Quotations- Can also mean Sarcasm or Irony.


What would it like to be at that party? Overwhelming, lots of booze, plenty of valuable things to break, but amazing, rubbing elbows with the wealthy elite.

Gatsby Quiz

1. A

2. D

3. C

4. D

5. A

6. A

7. C

8. D?

9. C

10. D

Gatsby Chapter II-Notes part I

Tom makes it known he has a mistress, and his wife has a baby

Tom's Drunk

Contiguous main street

Nick is in "fly over country"

Stranger on the Streets selling puppies on the street looks like John D. Rockefeller

Myrtle is the Mistress

Wilson, the husband, is unaware of the affair.

typical small apartment, even for a woman cheating with a millionaire

Cashier at Rite Aid, late 40s, tattooed blue eyebrows, reminds me of Myrtle's sister.

Neither Tom nor Myrtle can stand the Person they're married to.

Myrtle calls Tom a "Kyke"

Gatsby-Chapter II part I

In Chapter two we have been introduced to the bleak and dismal "Valley of Ashes." It's a depressing factor in the midst of the Industrial revolution. It is here that we are about to be introduced to Tom's mistress as more about The Great Gatsby unfolds...

Great Gatsby Remix I

   We're first introduced to the Narrator, Frank, who's earliest memories are of his father's advice: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all people haven't had the advantages that you've had." As the chapter progresses, we learn more about our narrator. He's learning Bonds, and moves to the Less Fashionable New York neighborhood of West Egg, where he lives in a battered old shack, between million dollar mansions fit for a luxury hotel. This is where he learns of his reclusive neighbor, Mr. Gatsby, whom he seldom saw.

   We next are introduced to Frank's cousin, Daisy, and her Brutish husband, Tom, in the more fashionable East Egg. We are treated to a variety of descriptive writing(sunken Italian Gardens, a snub-nosed motor boat, etc.) as we learn about the wealth Daisy and Tom retain, and how unhappy Daisy is, how her Husband is racist, and how he has a "Woman in New York." As the Chapter draws to a close, we get to finally meet Mr. Gatsby; He's posing on his Balcony observing the Salt and Pepper night sky, wondering what belongs to him in the heavens.

Great Gatsby Notes II

Why does Tom act this way?


How did the Buchanan couple gain their wealth?


Divan- Couch/Sophisticated from a certain time


Why is Daisy unsatisfied?


'The Rise of the Coloured Empires'


Tom is racist


Silver Polisher-What is that? What does it have to do with the story?


Indirect Characterization


Tom's cheating on Daisy


 "It'll show you how I've gotten to feel abut things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the Ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse whether it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All Right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."


Single Green Light, minute and far away.

Great Gatsby Notes

"What little I've accomplished has been the most laborious and uphill of work"


Read for Pleasure


Share what we think and learn from each other


EPI Graph- Quote that gives us a clue at the beginning of the chapter to give the reader a clue of what the chapter or book is about


Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had."


West Egg Village-important


Midas, Morgan, Maecenas


West Egg, Land formation


Two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.

Remix Post-Realism

American Realism became popular during the early days of the 20th century, it's found in literature, art, music, and many other forms.


Earlier this week(Yesterday), I came up with a question, "Could American Realism resurge as a way to combat discrimination towards minorities?"

If you're not familiar with Realism, in literature, it's a way to write about people as the really are, to write about people as people.


So, could Realism resurge because of the racial violence? Well, if you haven't noticed, it already has in the past few years(Stronger than ever because of President Trump) made its way back into the mainstream, and not just in literature, it's found in songs, art, photography, etc.

Allow me to explain how realism would be used as a way to combat discrimination, there are multiple groups of individuals who have certain views about certain people. There are people like me who see Latinos as Hard Working members of society, working towards the same goal as everyone else, to achieve the american dream, to provide a better life for the next generation. Then there are individuals who are on the exact opposite of the spectrum, who see Latinos as "Dangerous Illegals who steal our jobs" and need to be sent back to their home country. There are individuals like me who view people of Islam as members of our diverse community, exercising the Freedom of Religion as guaranteed in the Constitution(First amendment, enacted 1789 and Revised in the Early 1990s during the George H.W. Bush  Administration). Then there are the other individuals who view the Islamic Followers as "Dangerous Terrorists set out to destroy America."


Now, on to the really exciting stuff. How to we combat this discrimination? Well, we fight, verbally, of course. Through words and wisdom, through peace and acceptance of all races, religions, sexuality, and gender, through art and music, through writing and many other ways. Some excellent examples include the famous Novel The Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, stories about the life of Migrant workers during the Great Depression and how they were treated, the Circuit and other stories by Dr. Francisco Jimenez, stories about a young Mexican Immigrant's experience growing up during a very prejudice time in history when he arrived in a Farming community where the Dominant ethnicity was White, Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, stories of a young Japanese-American living years in an Internment camp, when he family had left Japan years before the Second World War, and through leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr's speech "I have a dream," to push for equality in the segregated south, to push for acceptance of integration at a time where racism was still dominating the country. We can all fight discrimination in any way, shape, or form we choose; Whether it's art or music, to writing a string of mindless paragraphs like I'm doing now, American Realism is making a comeback, whether you've noticed it or not.

Examples of American Realism:

Naturalism, Realism, and Modernism

Naturalism- "People don't want to work as machines," deterministic of the individualistic ethos, life is bigger than the individual's point of view


Realism- Post-WWI, early modern values, Write about people's lives as they are


Modernism- Life is new and confusing all the time, No god




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Remix Video Notes

Everything is a Remix

Remix- Hay day of Hip-Hop

Technology has made Remixing a Folk art.

The Arrangement and Transformation of Samples

Myths of Creativity:

-Stories, humans are too meager to create anything divine.

-Light Bulb is the most popular metaphor for creativity


How do we create?

-Domain Knowledge: Learn the language

-Copying: Emulation

Gonzo Journalism

-Transformation- Create variations of existing things

Video Notes

Sarah's video:
-Points out our difference between Shakespeare's writing vs. Today.

-'To be or not to be' Hamlet feels that his situation is hopeless, options: Take arms against his uncle, or accept it.

-What is the afterlife?

Bodkin- Blunt needle

Fardle- Run away from home sack

 TED Remix:

-Every country on Earth is reforming Education, Economic or other reasons.

-How do we educate our children to have a cultural identity?

-Raise standards of Education

-Education system is incredibly obsolete

-Based on social structure

Economic/Intellectual-havoc

ADHD is not an Epidemic, we are being forced to pay attention to boring things and losing interest.

The Arts are Victims of Anesthetic epidemic.

Education is modeled in an industrial manor.

Divergent Thinking- Essential capacity for Creativity

We are all Divergent Thinkers, and we lose it as we get older.

Great learning happens in groups

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Response to a quote.

Dr. Preston brought up Robert Burns' quote "The Best laid laid plans of Mice and Men Often go astray." I actually feel as if we can all relate to this quote.

Now, another quote I agree with is from the film "V for Vendetta," and V states:

'Behind this mask there is more than flesh, behind this mask is an idea, and ideas are Bulletproof..."

Music as Literature

Can we consider music as literature? In my opinion, yes. If you haven't noticed, every song tells a story, whether it's Johnny Cash spinning a yarn abut a ghostly band of Outlaws to Queen singing about how they grew up in the shadow of the Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan(Hammer to fall, Lyrics: Growing up in the shadow of the Mushroom cloud).

Songs can deliver a message to everyone who listens to it, it can bring them together or drive them apart. What do you think?

What's the difference between a Novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony? A novel is a collection of stories, a poem is a short story, a rap is a story with rhythm, an opera is a story sung for several hours, and a symphony is a story that you must create the words to. They're all stories, just presented in a different fashion.