OLD BUT GOLD
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitgerald
Reading Blog #1
2-9-16
The Great Gaspy Chapters 1-2
"So far the book is acually very insteresting" said Adian. Danny says "I like how in the very begining of the book the author starts of with a quote". Our group is reading the book The Great Gaspy. We chose to read this book because in our Zine we ask people to write about old things. The Great Gaspy relates all the way back to the 1920's. The setting of the book takes place in a non-fictional town called Westegg in Long Island. Lexie says "I Think the book is pretty good so far because the time period itself relates to our zine and what we are all about as a zine in general". Faith also said "there were many points while reading where I had to stop and think about what the author's message was, but I really liked how the characters weren't just speaking dialogue, but were also showing me a mental image of their actions". The book has a very moral and insteresting view. The story itself so far doesn't really relate to our zine idea, But since the story takes place in the 1920's we can realate to all thing happening around then. The way people talk and the way people dress, and music people listened to back then are all so different to modern day. That why we think tat this book is gonne be good for our zine because of its time peroid and how the book is going so far.
Reading Blog #2
2-26-16
The Great Gaspy Pgs: 3-6
The Great Gatsby… The love affair...
Faith: Daisy has a baby-girl, she isn’t really into motherhood. Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, Nick and Jordan go to NYC.
Lexie: Daisy and Gatsby are falling in love again thanks to daisy’s second cousin Nick who loves them.
Aidan: Gatsby’s love interest with Daisy is all he thinks about, meanwhile Tom becomes very suspicious of them.
Danny: A young man named Jay Gatsby who is obsessed with the one and only luxurious Daisy Buchanan.
Nick Carraway narrates the story in first person. “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Page 118) Aidan says that this makes the author’s writing style “more personal.”
Fitzgerald uses very sophisticated vocabulary throughout the book, and that is a big part of what makes the story so memorable. “I think Scott uses very beautiful and eloquently worded writing,” says Faith. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” (Chapter 2).
“I think the characters in the book are developing very fast because Nick just moved and it is a big development for him and it makes him develop very fast,” says Lexie. The pacing in this story is very quick, and that is similar to how New York works in real life. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. (1.3)” Here, Nick says that money isn't the only thing that some people are born to. Some people are naturally just nicer and more honest
There are many metaphors in The Great Gatsby: "The frosted wedding cake of the ceiling (160)," and "a long white cake of apartment houses (160),” are examples. Danny says that the figures of speech within the book are “interesting and add to the feel of the book.”
The sentence structure within the book can vary greatly, but Fitzgerald tends to lean towards longer sentences to better express the characters. “I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive (179).”
Overall we think this book is very well written, and the author’s style of writing is what makes this book such a classic.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/index.html
Reading Blog #3
3-8-16
The Great Gaspy Chapters 6-9 (120-180)
The Glamour and Gold of The Great Gatsby
The last section of our novel The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby Has fallen even deeper in love with Daisy. On the hottest day of the summer Gatsby, Nick and Jordan all go over to Daisy and Toms for lunch, they quickly decide that they want to go into the city for the day. While they're there Gatsby confesses his love for Daisy in front of Tom and they get in a big argument so Gatsby leaves and drives back to West Egg. Daisey quickly follows and ends up hitting Myrtle with her car. Myrtle dies. Gatsby wants to take the blame for daisy. Nearing the end Gatsby sends nick to Daisy's house to spy on her and Tom to make sure Tom doesn't hurt her. He sees the opposite. The couple looks like they are finally getting along. The next day Gatsby wants to go for a swim but he tells his butler to bring him the phone if it rings because he's hopping for a call from Daisey. While Gatsby is getting out of the pool myrtles ex husband Wilson comes and shoots gatsby killing him. In the end Daisy and Tom fall back in love and Nick is left sad and missing his friend Gatsby.
“After reading The Great Gatsby I think that if fit our subject of old things very well” says Danny. We have gotten many pieces in the past about old styles and old loves and this is a great book to fit that due to the gorgeous glam that everyone wore in thee times. Also another way this fit our topic very well was Gatsby and Daisy's love. “Daisey and Jay's love for eachother was infinite” says Faith. “It was in an old time era but it was a great love.” Aidan said. They had loved each other in the past and they were coming to be together again but due to sad events they couldn't be together. “Overall this book was a great and enjoyable book to read and i’m glad we chose it.” Said Lexie.
