blog entry : 3B

The beginning of the book was so boring. It gets better when Nick finally meets Gatsby and things start happening. The characters are considered selfish. When Gatsby asked Nick to make him and daisy meet again, Nick didn’t think about tom or what it would do to daisy, he just did what he wanted. Tom is also selfish because he had an affair and when he learned that daisy was having one too he was so mad and didn’t realize that he was doing the same. One my difficulties is understanding Nick and the character’s, but I’m sure I’ll know when I read further into the book. The author tries to prove a point that the American dream is to get money. They all try to impress each other such as Gatsby organizing big parties just to impress Daisy and the same with Nick and Jordan’s love story. I actually like the great Gatsby so far, because the author’s message of the American dream being money is real. I like the way he shows the message through these selfish characters and by making them the new rich. He also implies that the money, business, and treachery will lead to a bad ending and the characters will commit bad things at the end.

blog entry : 3a

The 1920s also called the Roaring twenties was the decade from 1920 to 1929. During that period, there was a rise in the use of technology, art, science and music. There was an economic boom right that came after World War I. People were more interested in fashion and new designs. Women started to have more rights and there was more individual freedom. More and more women were sent to school, but men were still treated better. New sports such as baseball and basketball were very famous and people became entertained and wanted to play more sports. The 1920s was ended by the great depression, when the stock markets crashed.

BLOG ENTRY 2C

I’m satisfied with the ending of the book, because I love the way the book ends. Catherine and heathcliff both end up dead at the end, and I like the fact that the two main characters die at the end. Throughout the book heathcliff changed so much. He is the most dynamic character in the novel. Heathcliff at the beginning of the book was innocent and was the one being tortured. Then he disappeared for about 3 years and became mean. He wanted revenge and to torture the people who caused him grief before. He also became very wealthy and powerful but his love for Catherine stayed the same. The themes of the books are universal, because revenge and love are common themes in every novel. The love between heathcliff and Catherine did not die even after their death, because heathcliff still believed her spirit was around and he still feels her and wanted to be buried next to her. He expresses her absence by saying: “In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image!”(Bronte, Wuthering Heights chapter 23). He says that even though he lost her, every sign and thing in the world reminds him of her.There intense love led to the revenge and rage heathcliff felt. My final thoughts about the novel are simple. Heathcliff and Catherine both died and that was a nice ending because heathcliff died because he was just sad and lived in pain and Catherine fell ill because of all the problems and the very idea that she will never be with heathcliff again, even though they are in love. “I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again” (Bronte, Wuthering heights chapter 29). Heathcliff’s death was similar, since after her death he became ill and died.