I am currently reading my US History Textbook A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. It is really good for a textbook.
Yeah. Chapter summary due Tuesday. Better begin reading it. teehee.
Government support of slavery was over practicality: Cotton production was increased dramatically (a thousand tons to a million tons) as slave labor grew (from 500k slaves to 4 million slaves) from 1790 to 1860. Full-scale rebellion or war necessary to end the slavery system. John Brown was hung in 1859 in attempt to start a small-scale rebellion.
Liberation became profitable as plantations turned to new cotton lands, but law went unenforced as slaves were still necessary for production. About 250k slaves were imported illegally after Civil War.
(page 172)
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Impressive Brad Pitt Quote?
I'm in love with him in Ocean's 11-13. But now I like him that much more.
"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."
"Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold."
Friday, August 24, 2007
More More More + Some of Walden
And probably my last batch from Thoreau cuz I'm gonna be busy busy busy with class readings.
K. Some favorite quotes:
"I saw yet more distinctly the state in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
"I think sometimes, Why, this people mean well, they are only ignorant; they would do better if they knew how: why give your neighbors this pain to treat you as they are not inclined to?"
Walden
"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wold, that they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wold, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? They have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can."
"But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost."
"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its their fruits cannot be picked by them."
"Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath."
Some live on another's brass.
"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro slavery..."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
K. Some favorite quotes:
"I saw yet more distinctly the state in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
"I think sometimes, Why, this people mean well, they are only ignorant; they would do better if they knew how: why give your neighbors this pain to treat you as they are not inclined to?"
Walden
"Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits."
"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wold, that they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wold, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? They have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can."
"But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost."
"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its their fruits cannot be picked by them."
"Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath."
Some live on another's brass.
"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say, as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro slavery..."
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."
Saturday, August 18, 2007
More Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)
True place for a just man is the prison...in that place where the state places all those who are not with her, but against her.
"If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person."
Thoreau states that he can afford to resist allegiance and the penalty of disobedience would be less than that of obedience.
He wrote a note that he would not be paying to be a member of which he didn't sign up. He was left alone afterwards.
He had not payed poll-tax for 6 years and was put in jail for one night. He wondered on why he should be placed in jail, as if it were the best way to attain his service. He was punished physically since he was not learning anything from it. He lost all respect and pitied the State.
"Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses."
"They force me to become like themselves."
"When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be haste to give it my money?"
His cell mate was in for burning a barn, which he claim he hadn't done. He was let out of prison because someone intervened for him and payed the tax.
"If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person."
Thoreau states that he can afford to resist allegiance and the penalty of disobedience would be less than that of obedience.
He wrote a note that he would not be paying to be a member of which he didn't sign up. He was left alone afterwards.
He had not payed poll-tax for 6 years and was put in jail for one night. He wondered on why he should be placed in jail, as if it were the best way to attain his service. He was punished physically since he was not learning anything from it. He lost all respect and pitied the State.
"Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses."
"They force me to become like themselves."
"When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be haste to give it my money?"
His cell mate was in for burning a barn, which he claim he hadn't done. He was let out of prison because someone intervened for him and payed the tax.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Some more Thoreau from Civil Disobedience.
Men vote for an election candidate for being the only available candidate, which makes him as well off as a foreigner voting.
"The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by htose who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own cannot act and authrity he disregards and sets at naught..."
If you are cheated by your neighbor, you are not satisfied unless you mention that money or ask to have it payed back. You also make sure it is payed back in full and for the situation never to occur again.
On unjust laws, he asks if they should be obeyed, or if they should be ignored until they no longer exist.
If man who has no land refuses to pay the government, he is put in jail and not released until those who placed him there decided to do so. But if someone were to steal 9x that, he would soon be released.
"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go...but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
"A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong."
He states how if one honest man were to be locked up in jail for ceasing to hold slaves, then it would be Abolition.
"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."
"If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparisons--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich."
"Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it."
"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor."
Men vote for an election candidate for being the only available candidate, which makes him as well off as a foreigner voting.
"The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by htose who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own cannot act and authrity he disregards and sets at naught..."
If you are cheated by your neighbor, you are not satisfied unless you mention that money or ask to have it payed back. You also make sure it is payed back in full and for the situation never to occur again.
On unjust laws, he asks if they should be obeyed, or if they should be ignored until they no longer exist.
If man who has no land refuses to pay the government, he is put in jail and not released until those who placed him there decided to do so. But if someone were to steal 9x that, he would soon be released.
"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go...but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
"A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong."
He states how if one honest man were to be locked up in jail for ceasing to hold slaves, then it would be Abolition.
"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."
"If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparisons--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich."
"Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it."
"The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor."
Friday, August 10, 2007
Civil Disobedience
Just started reading Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
It's about how much better the government is when it governs least, and how one should question it and its motives.
Some favorite quotes (that are also relevant to present-day):
"The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail may also at last be brought against a standing government."
"Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure."
"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."
It's about how much better the government is when it governs least, and how one should question it and its motives.
Some favorite quotes (that are also relevant to present-day):
"The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail may also at last be brought against a standing government."
"Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for, in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure."
"But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
pgs. 115-189
I am determined to finish this book tonight. Only about 30 pages to go.
I already have my next two books in line, and they are both heavy reads.
So summing up loosely, Tom realizes that Daisy loves Gatsby. Tom is mad, although he is involved in an affair as well. Daisy admits that she needs to stick with Tom, but Gatsby hopes otherwise.
As they are driving back from the city into town, they realize that Gatsby's car has crashed into and killed Myrtle Wilson (Tom's mistress). Daisy was driving the car at the time, but Gatsby was to take the blame.
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
Wilson had known that his wife had been having an affair, but didn't know with whom. He then remembered how Myrtle had been approaching the yellow car calling out to it, when she was hit. He then went around to the garages asking about yellow cars. As Gatsby was bathing in his pool, Wilson approached and shot twice. One to Gatsby, and another to himself.
Nick tried calling Daisy, but she and Tom had left with baggage. Nick wanted someone for Gatsby. He even tried calling Meyer Wolfshiem. Henry C. Gatz, of Minnesota, wired to postpone the funeral until he arrived. He was Gatsby's father and had read about it in the Chicago newspaper.
Nick calls up people to make sure there are people in Gatsby's funeral. Klipspringer, the man who practically lived in Gatsby's mansion, called in for some athletic shoes, but didn't bother going to the funeral.
"After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby--one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor and I should have known better than to call him."
Nick went to Meyer Wolfshiem's before the funeral. He didn't like getting involved with people after their death, so he would not be attending the funeral.
Nick, Gatz's father, and the minister were the only ones to attend the funeral. Followed by his servants. Then Owl Eyes showed up, and was disappointed that after many went to his parties, none would care to show up.
Nick reflects that this was a story of the West. He, Tom, Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan were all Westerners and perhaps had a deficiency to the Eastern life.
He decided to move back home, but before leaving he decided to see Miss Jordan Baker. She said she was engaged to another man, and he doubted it, though he knew she could marry whom she chose.
Later, Nick saw Tom on Fifth Avenue. He didn't want to talk to him, but Tom saw him. Nick asked what he told Tom that night. Tom had told him who the car belonged to, because he was holding a revolver throughout the house.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Fin.
Wait, wait, afterthoughts.
'The Rise of the Coloured Empires" is in allusion to The Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard.
pgs. 115-189
I am determined to finish this book tonight. Only about 30 pages to go.
I already have my next two books in line, and they are both heavy reads.
So summing up loosely, Tom realizes that Daisy loves Gatsby. Tom is mad, although he is involved in an affair as well. Daisy admits that she needs to stick with Tom, but Gatsby hopes otherwise.
As they are driving back from the city into town, they realize that Gatsby's car has crashed into and killed Myrtle Wilson (Tom's mistress). Daisy was driving the car at the time, but Gatsby was to take the blame.
"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
Chapter 8
"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery hat wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor."Wilson had known that his wife had been having an affair, but didn't know with whom. He then remembered how Myrtle had been approaching the yellow car calling out to it, when she was hit. He then went around to the garages asking about yellow cars. As Gatsby was bathing in his pool, Wilson approached and shot twice. One to Gatsby, and another to himself.
Chapter 9
Catherine tried to convince herself that her sister, Myrtle, was perfectly happy with her husband, and also stated that Myrtle had never seen Gatsby in her life. Wilson was described by the newspapers as "deranged by grief" to keep the case in its simplest form.Nick tried calling Daisy, but she and Tom had left with baggage. Nick wanted someone for Gatsby. He even tried calling Meyer Wolfshiem. Henry C. Gatz, of Minnesota, wired to postpone the funeral until he arrived. He was Gatsby's father and had read about it in the Chicago newspaper.
Nick calls up people to make sure there are people in Gatsby's funeral. Klipspringer, the man who practically lived in Gatsby's mansion, called in for some athletic shoes, but didn't bother going to the funeral.
"After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby--one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor and I should have known better than to call him."
Nick went to Meyer Wolfshiem's before the funeral. He didn't like getting involved with people after their death, so he would not be attending the funeral.
Nick, Gatz's father, and the minister were the only ones to attend the funeral. Followed by his servants. Then Owl Eyes showed up, and was disappointed that after many went to his parties, none would care to show up.
Nick reflects that this was a story of the West. He, Tom, Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan were all Westerners and perhaps had a deficiency to the Eastern life.
He decided to move back home, but before leaving he decided to see Miss Jordan Baker. She said she was engaged to another man, and he doubted it, though he knew she could marry whom she chose.
Later, Nick saw Tom on Fifth Avenue. He didn't want to talk to him, but Tom saw him. Nick asked what he told Tom that night. Tom had told him who the car belonged to, because he was holding a revolver throughout the house.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Fin.
Wait, wait, afterthoughts.
'The Rise of the Coloured Empires" is in allusion to The Rising Tide of Color by Lothrop Stoddard.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Great Gatsby
-114
Soo...it has been revealed that Jay Gatsby's legal name is James Gatz. His parents were actually farmers from the mid-West. He gained his fortune from a man who he warned anchored his yacht too close to the shore.
Tom met Gatsby at his house. He was suspicious that Gatsby mentioned knowing Daisy. Tom and Daisy went to one of Gatsby's parties. She was only really happy when she was with him. Tom was a bit suspicious and jealous and wanted to know his occupation. He guessed he was a bootlegger, but Daisy affirmed that he actually started a chain of drugstores.
-114
Soo...it has been revealed that Jay Gatsby's legal name is James Gatz. His parents were actually farmers from the mid-West. He gained his fortune from a man who he warned anchored his yacht too close to the shore.
Tom met Gatsby at his house. He was suspicious that Gatsby mentioned knowing Daisy. Tom and Daisy went to one of Gatsby's parties. She was only really happy when she was with him. Tom was a bit suspicious and jealous and wanted to know his occupation. He guessed he was a bootlegger, but Daisy affirmed that he actually started a chain of drugstores.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 86-107
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 86-107
Chapter 5
Nick invites Daisy over. She remeets Gatsby. Blah blah blah, it's awkward. They go to his house. Blah blah blah.
Chapter 6
Reporter goes to Gatsby's door and asks if there is anything he wants to say.
Jay Gatsby is revealed as being James Gatz (his legal name). His parents were unsuccessful farm people.
Jay Gatsby is revealed as being James Gatz (his legal name). His parents were unsuccessful farm people.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 67-85
Chapter 4Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 67-85
Nick also mentioned how he had gone to two parties, flown on Gatsby's jet, spent some time on his beach, but still didn't know a thing about him. Gatsby then drove over to pick him up in his cream-colored car (with a lot of boxes) and seemed very uneasy. On the drive to lunch, Gatsby asked what Nick thought of him, and then starting telling him about himself. His parents were both rich and deceased, and he inherited the wealth. They were from San Francisco, but he was educated in Oxford, as was a family tradition. At first he seemed as though he were lying, but then Nick realized he was telling the truth. After they died, he lived through the capitals of Europe doing things for himself trying to forget something that had happened to him long ago. Nick wanted to laugh as he could tell how worn out these words were. Gatsby was happy when the war began, as he tried hard to die. He was made first lieutenant, and was promoted to major, where every Allied country gave him a decoration. Nick's incredulation became fascination.
He emphasized Montenegro, as if comprehending their troubled history, and showed Nick the decoration given to him by them. He also showed him a picture from Oxford.
Gatsby told Nick he wanted him to know something about him, and Miss Baker would tell him about it through tea that afternoon. He was kind of annoyed, and wished he hadn't set foot on Gatsby's property for a moment. The police stops them, but he waived his picture of Oxford, and they are excused.
They see a hearse and two carriages, and he's glad that they got to see them. After passing the Queensboro Bridge, he spots a limousine driven by a white man, with three blacks looking at them with rivalry, and he thinks, "Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge...anything at all..."
Gatsby introduces him to Mr. Wolfshiem, who remembers the old restaurant Metropole, where one of their friends, Rosy Rosenthal, was shot to death. After leaving, Gatsby revealed that Wolfshiem was a gambler and had fixed the World Series in 1919. He sees Tom there, and introduces him to Gatsby. Gatsby seems uneasy, and then leaves.
At tea with Miss Baker, she revealed that Daisy and Gatsby had been sweethearts during the war. Afterwards, Daisy married Tom. Gatsby wanted to see Daisy again, and wanted Nick to invite her over so he could see her house.
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 56-66
As Nick is leaving the party, everyone is looking at a car who's wheel got amputated in a crash.
He then reveals how Jordan Baker is a dishonest person, and a horrible driver.
"But I am slow thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home."
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 56-66
As Nick is leaving the party, everyone is looking at a car who's wheel got amputated in a crash.
He then reveals how Jordan Baker is a dishonest person, and a horrible driver.
"But I am slow thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home."
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 6-55
Gatsby is described as having an unaffected scorn, heightened sensitivity, and responsiveness. Gatsby closed out the narrator's interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. Narrator comes from a prominent family from the middle-western city for three generations. Decided to move east with the help of his father. Quested to become a "well-rounded" man. Moved to Long Island Sore among millionaires.
The narrator (Nick Carraway) speaks of Chicago. He has dinner with Tom, Daisy (Nick's cousin), and Miss Baker.
"The Rise of the Coloured Empires" by Goddard is referenced by Tom. It's about the white race being submerged, how it is scientific, and it has been proven.
A phone rings and Tom and Daisy excuse themselves. Miss Baker reveals that Tom has "another woman" in New York.
As Nick is leaving, Tom and Daisy ask if he is engaged to a girl back West. He says it's a lie...he's too poor. The rumors were the reason he had moved east.
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 6-55
Chapter 1
Gatsby is described as having an unaffected scorn, heightened sensitivity, and responsiveness. Gatsby closed out the narrator's interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. Narrator comes from a prominent family from the middle-western city for three generations. Decided to move east with the help of his father. Quested to become a "well-rounded" man. Moved to Long Island Sore among millionaires.
The narrator (Nick Carraway) speaks of Chicago. He has dinner with Tom, Daisy (Nick's cousin), and Miss Baker.
"The Rise of the Coloured Empires" by Goddard is referenced by Tom. It's about the white race being submerged, how it is scientific, and it has been proven.
A phone rings and Tom and Daisy excuse themselves. Miss Baker reveals that Tom has "another woman" in New York.
As Nick is leaving, Tom and Daisy ask if he is engaged to a girl back West. He says it's a lie...he's too poor. The rumors were the reason he had moved east.
Chapter 2
Tom introduces Nick to his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Nick had wanted to see her, but he had no intention of meeting her. They met as she was with her husband, George Wilson, who was to buy a car from Tom. They meet up and go up to her apartment.
That afternoon was only the second time Nick had ever been drunk in his life. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, went to visit the apartment, as well as Mr. McKee, a photographer who lived downstairs, with his wife.
Catherine had been to a party at Gatsby's and said there was a rumor he got his money as a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. Catherine said Tom and Myrtle couldn't stand their own spouses, but lied saying that they couldn't get a divorce because Daisy was Catholic. But once they did get married to each other, they would move to the West until it blew over.
Mrs. Wilson started saying "Daisy" and Tom broke her nose.
Nick agrees to meet up with Mr. McKee later on.
That afternoon was only the second time Nick had ever been drunk in his life. Myrtle's sister, Catherine, went to visit the apartment, as well as Mr. McKee, a photographer who lived downstairs, with his wife.
Catherine had been to a party at Gatsby's and said there was a rumor he got his money as a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm. Catherine said Tom and Myrtle couldn't stand their own spouses, but lied saying that they couldn't get a divorce because Daisy was Catholic. But once they did get married to each other, they would move to the West until it blew over.
Mrs. Wilson started saying "Daisy" and Tom broke her nose.
Nick agrees to meet up with Mr. McKee later on.
Chapter 3
The first night Nick went to Gatsby's parties, he was one of the few who was actually invited. "People were not invited--they went there." Nick didn't want to be alone, when he bumped into Jordan Baker. At the party, someone says that Gatsby is really nice, another that he has killed a man, another that he was a German spy during the war, and yet another that he was in the American army during the war.
Nick meets someone at the party who was also in the same division in the army during the war, who turns out to be Gatsby! Mr. Gatsby requests that the orchestra play "Tostoff's History of the World." Gatsby called Jordan to speak with her privately, and Nick wandered himself inside the house.
Nick meets someone at the party who was also in the same division in the army during the war, who turns out to be Gatsby! Mr. Gatsby requests that the orchestra play "Tostoff's History of the World." Gatsby called Jordan to speak with her privately, and Nick wandered himself inside the house.
Friday, August 3, 2007
The Beginning
Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 5-6
Soo...today I went to the library and checked out three books: The Great Gatsby, Walden and other Writings, and Lies My Teacher Told Me.
I kept thinking how I always read really good stuff, but since I have such a horrible memory, it all wastes away. Then, as I started reading The Great Gatsby, I realized I could use a blog to record my impressions, favorite quotes, summaries, etc. Saving word documents are a hassle, and I figure, blogging is the most organized solution.
Though I have only gone through 2 pages so far, I was very impressed with this quote:
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you have."
I guess, more than anything, it has relevance to my own life. But it's a great quote nonetheless, and advice worth following.
This is supposed to be a great book, so we'll have to see how the story unravels.
Length: 189 pages
Read: pgs. 5-6
Soo...today I went to the library and checked out three books: The Great Gatsby, Walden and other Writings, and Lies My Teacher Told Me.
I kept thinking how I always read really good stuff, but since I have such a horrible memory, it all wastes away. Then, as I started reading The Great Gatsby, I realized I could use a blog to record my impressions, favorite quotes, summaries, etc. Saving word documents are a hassle, and I figure, blogging is the most organized solution.
Though I have only gone through 2 pages so far, I was very impressed with this quote:
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you have."
I guess, more than anything, it has relevance to my own life. But it's a great quote nonetheless, and advice worth following.
This is supposed to be a great book, so we'll have to see how the story unravels.
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