Catcher in the Rye- p1-52

CHAPTER 1

• Main character introduced- touchy parents about certain subjects. moody. 
• DB: comes over and visits main character. Just got a Jaguiar (Car). cost him $4000. rich? i think yes. Wrote a book of stories. one of which was entitled 'the goldfish'. 'prostitute'? main character's brother. claimed as a 'prostitute' meaning he is selling himself as a writer to 'the man'. as though saying that 'the man' is paying him for his writing. Won't often appear in the novel
• Main character dislikes movies. 
• Main character: watched school football games from a hill instead of going to the actual game. assumed to be about 16. 
• Football Games: not many girls. only seniors can bring girls
• Main character: would rather be in a place with girls instead of being just at football games. likes the headmaster's daughter. 
• Headmaster's daughter: bites nails
• Main character: manager of the fencing team. forgot the fencing foils on the subway because he was distracted 
• Ostracized: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Ostracized
• Main character: was written a note by someone on the fencing team. Kicked off fencing team. flunking 4 subjects and was not applied to school. fencing had high academic standards
• "the axe": cut from the team, disbanded, etc
• Main character: gloves were stolen. lots of crooks in his school. Cold during football game. When he leaves a place, he likes to feel that he is leaving it. if he doesnt it makes him feel worse. 
• Tincher and Campbell: Tossing a ball back and forth with main character at night to the point where it was dark enough that they could barely find the ball
• Characters are in boarding school. High school. stay in dorms. Some people didnt live on campus. 
• Novel jumps around a lot. 
• Main character: heavy smoker. or at least he used to be. almost got TB
• TB: Tuberculosis (respiratory disease)

CHAPTER 2

• Old spenders parents were each about 70 years old.
• Main character: has very strong opinions about teachers at his school.
• Spencers: got big bangs out of buying things. get very excited about buying a blanket
• Main Character: attempts to be polite and 'grown up'.
• Spencer: yells a lot outside class. Lots of pills and medicine. 
• Main Character: doesnt like sick people. doesnt like seeing old guys in their bathrobes hanging around. thinks they are gross. was asked by spencer to come over and say goodbye for he would not be returning to the boarding school after the break was over. parents will be very disappointed in him getting kicked out of school. is 17- acts about 13. 6' 2.5" tall. grey hair. sometimes acts like he's about 12. parents think he acts childish as well. gets bored when people tell him to act his age. 
• Spencer: very comfortable with main character around (ie. picks his nose in front of him)
• Main character: passed english class. didnt really have to do much work in english class. flunked history because they did nothing. "couldnt help failing"- Spencer. Only glanced through text book a few times. mad about history. had only stopped by to say goodbye and ended up sitting and talking for a long while. 

Gatsby Cha. 3 to 5

3- this chapter focuses on the gap between perception and reality. At the party, as he looks through Gatsby’s books, Owl Eyes states that Gatsby has captured the effect of theater, a kind of mingling of honesty and dishonesty that characterizes Gatsby’s approach to this dimension of his life. The party itself is a kind of elaborate theatricalpresentation, and Owl Eyes suggests that Gatsby’s whole life is merely a show, believing that even his books might not be real. 

4- Jordan’s story paints Gatsby as a lovesick, innocent young soldier, desperatelytrying to win the woman of his dreams. Now that Gatsby is a full-fledged character in the novel, the bizarre inner conflict that enables Nick to feel such contradictoryadmiration and repulsion for him becomes fullyapparent—whereas Gatsby the lovesick soldier is an attractive figure, representative of hope and authenticity, Gatsby the crooked businessman, representative of greed and moral corruption, is not. This book contradicts itself alot and it bugs me. the narrator needs to make up his mind!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!

5- Gatsby’s house is compared several times to that of a feudal lord, and his imported clothes, antiques, and luxuries all display a nostalgia for the lifestyle of a British aristocrat. Though Nick and Daisy are amazed and dazzled by Gatsby’s splendid possessions, a number of things in Nick’s narrative suggest that something is not right about this transplantation of an aristocrat’s lifestyle into democratic America. For example, Nick notes that the brewer who built the house in which Gatsby now lives tried to pay the neighboring villagers to have their roofs thatched, to complement the style of the mansion.

THIS BOOK BUGS ME SO MUCH!!! people need to make up their mindsabout who they are and their personalities.I know that this book isnt supposedto be all flatcharacters but it bugs me that everyonechanges from page to page. people need to stop changing so often without development!!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY SISTER GETS MARRIED IN 138 

DAYS!!!! yayyyyyyyyyyy 

CONGRATULATIONS ALEX AND JORDAN!! 

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jUNE18  2011

Why I dont like other people to publicly be able to read my wirting

1. I do not like when other people can read my writing because people tend to criticize me less than helpfully. I only want people I trust to read my writing and most of them write better than I do. For example: Jenny Yeager, Brad Bond, Geoff Harmer, Randi Henkel, and Brenna Birt.

2. I fear that people will not actually be of any help when trying to help me improve my writing because they already have an idea of what I will sound like. I think its kind of dumb to have to share my writing in front of everyone when it is almost like judging at competitions when the judges have pretty much already decided what they are going to say. Everyone does it even if they, or a teacher, says that they aren't going to.

3. The best case scenario that would happen would be that i would be in a group of people whom i know will help my writing improve and that I know i can trust with my writing.

4. the worst thing that could happen is that i end up having to share in front of everyone or that the final draft would be due today because people are too reluctant to present in front of even the people whom they trust.


~Ashleigh~

The Cold Makes Me Want To......

The cold makes me want to yell and go home and snuggle underneath my blankets in my room. The cold makes me want a venti white chocolate mocha while watching a movie  and munching on some popcorn.  I really dont like the cold. In fact, there are a lot of things i dont like but i dont have time to write about them because Mr. J is  making us stop writing.....grrrr

Writing Blog

I think that I need  to finish my thoughts and remember to use evidence to support what I am trying to say. I thing    one of my strengths is my ability to build on a central argument. The only issue is that I dont seem to support my argument with facts and resources. I think another thing that would be helpful would be to send the finished version to Mr. J instead of one of my unfinished drafts so organization is definitely going to be a key element in improving my writing skills. so yeah......

250 word response The Awakening

I found  this book really boring. I started reading the book the day break started while I was on my airplane ride to CA and I fell asleep within the first chapter. But ANYWAYS, the first few chapters were just an introduction to the novel but after a while, I started to get really irritated with Mr Pontellier because of the way he treated his wife. He acted as though she was only good for caring for the children, cooking, and cleaning. I found it EXTREMELY upsetting the way the men treated women because they treated them as material objects instead of people. It seems like Edna was almost scared to show her feelings about things because of the way men treated women. “How many years have I slept?” she inquired. “. . . A new race of beings must have sprung up, leaving only you and me as past relics.”  This quote  is an example of the revolution that occured during the time and the changes that made a difference upon the way women are treated.

chapters 27 && 28

These chapters  made me both happy and sad.  I'm  really glad that Jurgis found Marija. It made me sad that Marija had to turn to prostitution in order to provide for her kids. It made me really scared when the police raided the building that Marija and the other prostitutes live in because Jurgis was there and the women living there were only prostitutes because they needed to provide for their families. I was glad that the police let the prostitutes and Jurtis leave. I think it was a really good move for Jurgis to lie about his name so that people wouldnt know that he was the attacker of Connor. I think it is sad that Jurgis got fired from one of his jobs because he was too weak to do his job. I think that Upton Sinclair does a good job of manipulating the emotions that his readers feel when they read this story. :)))))


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