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Monday, May 18, 2015
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Julia quote questions
Well that was a pretty crazy chapter...
Something i am confused on was when it says "he took her because he had no real right to touch her hand" (149)
This line answers some of my questions like why is he doing all this for her if he knows he has to get there alone and questions like that. It also brings up some new ones for me though.
What does he mean when he says he took her? Is that referring to her engagement before Tom? And my other question is if you guys think falling in love with Daisy changed how he felt when he was described in this quote?
Something i am confused on was when it says "he took her because he had no real right to touch her hand" (149)
This line answers some of my questions like why is he doing all this for her if he knows he has to get there alone and questions like that. It also brings up some new ones for me though.
What does he mean when he says he took her? Is that referring to her engagement before Tom? And my other question is if you guys think falling in love with Daisy changed how he felt when he was described in this quote?
Friday, May 15, 2015
Dilatory
Sorry for the lateness of this post. I wasn't able to post it on the Vap blog.
Dilatory- tending to delay or procrastinate, intending to cause delay.
The boy's dilatory studying cured him to fail his Latin test.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Julia blog chapter 6
After reading chapter six I think one of the questions was answered for me. The "what happens when there is nothing left to dream for?" question. I think by the end of this chapter we definitely see at least how Gatsby wants to approach the situation when he reaches this point.
"It is inevitably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment"(104)
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can" (110)
"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before, he said, nodding determinedly. She'll see" (110)
"but if he could once return to a certain starting place..." (110)
Gatsby is initially sad at the fact that he has achieved his dream of reconnecting with Daisy and it is not exactly how he pictured it. He then realizes that even though that dream is over and there is no more to wish for about Daisy, the real problem is the past. So an easy fix is to repeat the past and fix everything. He just needs to find the place in the past where everything went wrong.
referring to the Langston Hughes poem, he finished the poem by saying "or does it explode". The world explode reminds me of a word that seemed to be mentioned a lot in the chapter. The word was Oblivion. When I think of oblivion, I think of nothing, literal nothingness because it has disappeared or maybe even exploded. Some of the examples are...
"Tom appeared from his oblivion" (105)
"I'd a little rather not be the polo player," said Tom pleasantly, "I'd rather look at all these famous people in--in oblivion."(105)
I think Langston Hues was implying that when a dream is deferred like Gatsby's, it was fade into oblivion and turn into nothing.
"It is inevitably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment"(104)
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can" (110)
"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before, he said, nodding determinedly. She'll see" (110)
"but if he could once return to a certain starting place..." (110)
Gatsby is initially sad at the fact that he has achieved his dream of reconnecting with Daisy and it is not exactly how he pictured it. He then realizes that even though that dream is over and there is no more to wish for about Daisy, the real problem is the past. So an easy fix is to repeat the past and fix everything. He just needs to find the place in the past where everything went wrong.
referring to the Langston Hughes poem, he finished the poem by saying "or does it explode". The world explode reminds me of a word that seemed to be mentioned a lot in the chapter. The word was Oblivion. When I think of oblivion, I think of nothing, literal nothingness because it has disappeared or maybe even exploded. Some of the examples are...
"Tom appeared from his oblivion" (105)
"I'd a little rather not be the polo player," said Tom pleasantly, "I'd rather look at all these famous people in--in oblivion."(105)
I think Langston Hues was implying that when a dream is deferred like Gatsby's, it was fade into oblivion and turn into nothing.
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