Great Gatsby Remix Video

The Great Gatsby MindMap

Literature Analysis #6

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. The main character is a man named Jay Gatsby.  It starts off with a young man named, Nick Carraway, who moves to West Egg in New York. His next door neighbor happens to be a very popular, wealthy man by the name of Jay Gatsby. When he first moves in, he becomes closer with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom. They all attend Gatsby's parties later in the summer and Nick meets his love interest, Jordan Baker. They discover Gatsby's past secret love affair with Daisy and come to understand that the affair is continuing throughout the summer. When Tom becomes suspicious of this affair, he starts accusing Gatsby of crimes and put his hate towards Daisy (despite his own affair with a woman named, Myrtle). Later, Gatsby and the crew are driving into town and he accidentally kills Myrtle with his car. When Myrtle's husband finds out Gatsby did it from Tom, he kills Gatsby and then shoots himself. Nick ends the summer with Gatsby's funeral and leaves the town of West Egg, reflecting on the relationships he once knew.

2. The main theme in this novel is the lack of values in a high class society. The characters focus, mainly, on their status in public and their party life instead of going after the typical job, house, and family routine.

3. The tone of the novel changes a lot.  It can love then again it can be annoyed; depending on the setting and who Gatsby is talking to.

4. Literary Devices:

Symbolism: showed up later in the novel

"A single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock…"

Diction: wide vocabulary

“ So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”

Syntax: long descriptive sentences

"She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall."

Foreshadow: keeps coming up, reader questions

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. “

Imagery: descriptive

“And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Socratic Seminar Notes

• Opportunity lost
• be fearless
• go back and say what you want to say
• Free play
• being able to do what YOU want
• get to learn better/be more creative
• solve problems on the spot
• free play at this age?
• doing whatever you want
• could be reading, singing, playing a sport, ect.
• without free play?
• children at a young age can lose social skills
• learn differently

#1: How can these concepts enhance your learning as you arrive at a moment when grades no longer matter?

The concepts discussed in class made me think more.  We usually depend on grades, getting the job done and moving on.  When a student receives an "A" they feel like they completed a goal.  But when grades no longer matter, that "A" doesn't mean you are correct.  That goes the same with failing something.  I think that the success people find will be if they have learned something.  Allowing myself to have more free play will affect how I am in school and out of school.  

#2: How can these concepts enhance your ability to master content for the AP exam and other hurdles you have yet to leap?

The main thing to do is to ask questions.  Children ask a million questions a day because they are not afraid of embarrassment for not knowing something.  Where adults on the other hand ask on average about four questions a day.  Asking as many questions will help me more on the AP exam.  If i don't understand a certain thing, or need help, it is very important to ask.

#3: How can you use these concepts to collaborate with and inspire others, to improve the information exchange and overall value of your learning network?

I think that we need to understand that it is alright to ask questions.  And when we do ask questions, you have to be open minded.  The people that continue to try no matter what shows that they are determined; where another person can try once and give up.  The people that continue to try things inspire other people to continue to try and not give up.  But you can't just work by yourself all the time.  You have to join in on other events.  Having free play is important  so you will be able to solve a problem you come to face.

Poetry Remix

1.  Dramatic Situation

-Who is speaking?

-What can you tell about the author?

-Time, Place, Circumstance

2.  Structure

-Complete thoughts?

-Stanzas?

3.  Theme

-The main message the author is trying to get across

4.  Grammar & Meaning

-Punctuation

5.  Figures of Speech & Imagery

-Sensory objects

6.  Diction & Important Words

-Vocabulary usage

-Repeated words

7.  Tone

-Author’s attitude towards the character(s), audience, or the subject

8.  Literary Devices

-Repetition?

-Imagery?

-Simile/Metaphor?

-Ect.

9.  Prosody (Flow)

-Structural flow

Literature Analysis #5

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

1.    The main character, who is also  the narrator, who is a young black man, tells the readers that he is consistently ignored.  Throughout the whole novel, the narrator doesn’t say his name.  In the beginning he is invited to give a speech and is rewarded with a scholarship to go to a prestigious black college.  Some years later, the narrator becomes a student at the college, and gets a job driving around the wealthy white man, Mr. Norton.  Through a series of events this leads the narrator to travel to the Harlem where he searches for work.  He looks for work with hardly any luck, but eventually he meets a man who helps him get a low paying job at a paint shop that makes “Optic White” paint.  One day the narrator and his co-worker get in an argument and while leaving the paint unattended it explodes knocking the narrator unconscious, which temporarily gives him memory loss and loss of speech.  When he leaves the hospital, he passes out on the streets.  A black woman, Mary takes him in and they have a conversation.  The narrator then holds a funeral for his friend Clifton, another member of the Brotherhood, who was shot by a police officer for selling Sambo dolls without a permit.  The Brotherhood, however, is mad that he held a funeral for Clifton, and he is furious at the Brotherhood.  The Brotherhood then goes after the narrator to beat him up so he has to disguise himself.  In his disguise however, he is mistaken for a guy named Rinehart.  After a while, the narrator gets a call to come to Harlem and when he arrives there is a full-blown riot, and he sets a building on fire. While he is running from the scene he is set out to by lynched, and he runs into the police which while he is running from the police he falls down a manhole, and the police cover the manhole and trap him underground.  At the end of the novel, the narrator tells the audience that he has been underground since that day and he thinks that it is time to get out back into the world.

2.   The theme of Invisible Man is invisibility.  Throughout the whole novel, the narrator is a black man, so people ignore him.  The main character is consistently treated like nothing; as if he is a “nobody”.

3.   Ralph Ellison’s tones are both pessimistic and optimistic.

            “I’s big and black and I say ‘Yes, suh’ as loudly as any burrhead when it’s convenient, but I’m still the king down here. . . . The only ones I even pretend to please are big white folk, and even those I control more than they control me. . . . That’s my life, telling white folk how to think about the things I know about. . . . It’s a nasty deal and I don’t always like it myself. . . . But I’ve made my place in it and I’ll have every Negro in the country hanging on tree limbs by morning if it means staying where I am.”

4. Literary Devices:

     Plot

    "America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

     Diction

     "And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man."

     Characterization

     "I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable..."

     Symbol

     “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied” 

     Imagery

     "I looked at Ras on his horse and at their handful of guns and recognized the absurdity of the whole night and of the simple yet confoundingly complex arrangement of hope and desire, fear and hate, that had brought me here still running, and knowing now who I was and where I was and knowing too that I had no longer to run for or from the Jacks and the Emersons and the Bledsoes and Nortons, but only from their confusion, impatience, and refusal to recognize the beautiful absurdity of their American identity and mine..."