Blog post 20

our group is arguing that money is not important in this novel or time period. We have some strong evidence such as funeral of the Gatsby like how no one showed up. even daisy this shows money is not important but relations are. Thousands of people came every weekend to party at Gatsby's but not a person attended his funeral. This is one of our main point. I don't want to put other evidence on here because our opposing team may find them. Yes i am very excited about the trail because i love arguing about topics like this. We also had a trial last year in English 2 in Ms. Homa's class. It was very fun and hopefully things I learned from it would help me with this trial. Our group is going to nail it. Cant wait till Friday. yes our group is definitely dressing up. we need those extra credit points and it will also make the classroom feel like it is actually 1920's. No we have not talked much but we do know what we are doing. Hopefully we get time in class tomorrow to decide how we are going to counter their arguments and get more evidence from the book.

Blog post 19

yes, it was an amazing novel. I was very disappointed with daisy and tom because they did not even come to the Gatsby funeral. I am more mad at Daisy because she knew she did the accident but still did not say anything. How selfish can you be? It made me feel so sad for Gatsby because he loved such selfish girl. He deserved much better person than selfish little dumb bitch.
Tom made a really stupid mistake of giving Wilson a fault impression of Jay murdered her wife and he was the one having affair with her. He is also trying to save himself. Jay here was the one who was kind, noble man. He did not deserve such kind of death. This act of Tom made me even more angry.
Nick on the other hand did everything he could to get as many people at the funeral but unfortunately no one showed up except him and his dad. This made him very sad and realize that Jay was a very lonely man and did not have many friends. Jay did everything he could to get daisy but at the end all he got was miserable death and got accused of something he did not commit. This was so not fair. The act of kindness from nick made him a way better person than anyone else in that city.
Jordan on the other hand does not know what she is doing. She is just a bystander witnessing everything that is going around. she never loved nick either she was just using him to get information from him. She just wanted to be part of this big mess.

There was  a lot of colors everywhere, in fact this was the most colorful novel i have ever read but I did not understand the point of using all these colors. I just ignored them in the text and kept reading the novel. I noticed they were there but did not feel much symbolism towards it. Sometimes it did make sense like the green light at the end of the dock and the eyes of doctor was blue. It symbolized something but I am not exactly sure what.

Yes I do like how it ended because it explains everything that happened  in the end. Like the meeting with tom in the town after couple of months and what he said about Wilson coming to his house trying to kill him. This made me realize how he found out about Jay and why he killed him. It was because tom told him it was his car and he killed his wife. He even lied in the movie and said that maybe it was Gatsby who had affair with his wife while it was him doing the crime. But over all the ending was good and it also explained to nick when he finished the  book.
I really hoped Jay Gatsby lives a happy life but sadly this is a book and I already knew it would not happen.

Blog post 18

 I did not expect for Gatsby to die. I hoped he would have a nice happy life with daisy. He would marry her and live happily ever after. I like happy endings but of course if this story was a happy ending it wouldn't be so famous. I was also mad at Daisy when she did not tell tom that she loved Gatsby. I think it was all daisy's fault. She did the accident and did not take blame for it. It was because of her Wilson thought Gatsby did the accident and went after Gatsby to kill. Daisy even lied to tom and kept the truth. To be honest she is smart little b***h. She tried to herself out of trouble and betrayed the man who loved her the most. I think she never loved Gatsby all she loved was his money. Yes i would prefer to have the last chapter because of the beginning of the book. The book starts with nick talking to his doctor and what made him write the book, If he ended the story it would look incomplete and would not make sense. I am glad that the book did not end here. It would be me really sad. I would also not be able to figure out the real face of people like Daisy. She did not even come to the funeral. That is just sick!! At least she could have attempt to come even she did not care about him. It makes me so sad that there was no one at the funeral except nick and Mr. Gatz. This shows that money is not important only true friendship bonds matter.

The collage presentation was not that helpful because she only gave the facts about finances and real life but she did not tell how to handle them and deal with it. she was just telling random facts but it would have been helpful if she gave tips and strategies to plan out collage finances. To be honest it was a waste of time.

Blog Post 17

Nice question Mr. Vazquez!!! I do think two wrongs make a right because than they are equal and one wont regret not doing anything. For example in my personal opinion if my husband cheated on me and I knew about it and if he still continuous to see a woman than it would give me right to cheat on him too. First of all I would ask for a divorce and in any circumstances I can not divorce him than my husband show give me right to cheat on him as well. That is the only way to make things equal. I understand that back in the day adultery was not a big issue however it was very common for a man to commit adultery. This is 21st century so I would expect my husband to give me the same rights he has or I can divorce him. I definitely think it is okay for Daisy to cheat on Tom because Tom has many women, he probably has different woman every day. Even in the Gatsby's party he went to go see a woman who was an actress or in my words a slut. I would not come in a way of love birds like Gatsby and Daisy. They already loved each other so much and they knew each other since 5 years. because of some circumstances like war for Gatsby they had to split and Daisy was forced to marry Tom even though she said she did not want to marry him. Now they have seen each other and are reunited I would not sop them for having an affair and continuance of their love life. If I were Daisy I would go to tom right away and tell him I do not love him and I am marrying Gatsby. Unfortunately this was not the case in this book. I feel very sympathetic towards Gatsby and Myrtle because they love somebody they know they cant have and they know it is hard to get them. Even both are trying very hard they will have to end up loosing their love and eventually move on.

Blog Post 15

The gatsby shares so many of his secrets and his past life with us. He also revels everything he use to do when he was young and what he does now. He even mentioned his intentions to Jordan Baker. He said he was from a rich family from middle easy but than he had a  tradition of going to oxford. He said he was also in the war and a soldier in M island. This is a very long story and Gatsby is a very young man in his early thirties. I do not believe he could have done everything he mentioned in short amount of time. He also had a huge mansion which cannot be bought in just few years. Like how did he get all the money because I know he is lying to us. I do not believe is story at all. Some of maybe true like the part where he went to the war but the rest just looks a big fat lie. He had to ask a gambler to say some nice things about him to nick so that he could believe in his story. But when Tom came he left. First I didnt know why he left but after the explanation from Jordan Baker everything was as clear as water. Gatsby had another mystery that no on knew about except Jordan. That was that he loved Daisy so much when he was young and Daisyy loved hi as well too. But he had to go to war and she thought he must have died but the day before her wedding she recieved a letter from Gatsby which no one knew what wad written in it. After reading the letter she did not want to marry Tom but it looks like she was forced to. After that Daisy never mentioned Gatsby in her life until when Nick came to her house that evening, He wanted to be open because he wanted to know nick something about himself and didnt want to be nobody. I am thinking he wants Nick to help with him meeting Daisy so he could get her back. I feel like all the phone calls are for some drug deals and for gambling. That is how he got so much money.

Blog Post 14

I dont have any issue with Nick as a narrator because he mention int the novel that he was one of the honest people he med in his life. This means whatever he says is candid and comes from his heart. There may be a different perspectives but most people in Nick place would think the same. I feel like he does follow the crowd and he is trying to make an identity for himself in the new city, New York. He meets many people he has never seen before like Daisy. hey both are cousins but daisy says she does not know him as well. Nick is trying to make good relationship with the rich people so he can profit in his bond business. He is also one of the few people who met Gatsby and is going on a helicopter ride with him. I would not go if someone asked me because I have just met the person I would not go out with them the next day. Therefore, I think Nick is just following the crowd to make himself more famous. In the novel he mentions himself that follow some strangers to their apartment and wait for them to go in. This shows how he cares about what other people do and what other people thinks. It is very creepy for someone to follow them in my opinion.

The research part was easy but when it came time to put everything together and make sense of it was very difficult. I had all sorts of fact and information but I had no idea what should go where. It took me hours to write only 7 page essay. At the end it was so difficult to write because I was running out of things to say and I felt i was repeating things. I would not say I enjoyed it because it was very stressful but I did learn something out of it. One of which was not to procrastinate and second was re read the paper out loud to catch mistakes. Yes that was the case because I would search some facs put it in my paper and think I have no idea what to do with this but as you keep thinking great ideas pop in your minds and you come up with some amazing things to say.

Blog post 13

Yes , the video helped so much. I definitely went back and re did my work cited page. I also cited in my actual paper.  The n.p. is not important because it let's reader know that you were irresponsible and did not your research as closely. The paper will look credited and the citation wouldn't look complete if you  do not add them.

Part 2
The eyes of doctor represents that there is someone watching over the valley of ashes. The eyes know everything that is going on in valley of ashes. The way that eyes are represented looks like it also knows the secret that many people don't know. The valley of ashes represents the the difference between west egg and easy egg. It also shows about two places are very different by that small peace of valley in between. The valley also hides the dark secrets of both eggs and it also represent the mixture of both sides. I don't like myrtle very much because her husband is working his butt off at work and gas station while she is here having fun with Tom and her friends. I don't think this is right and when his husband finds out he will be very mad and there might be some tragedy in future. I think myrtle likes tom very much and tom is trapped in her games Instead! She enjoys her freedom and free stuff very much. Therefore, she keeps on calling toms house because she is scared she might loose him.  They even fought because of daisy. Myrtle is jealous of her because she keeps on talking about her to tom and tom got mad and hit her very hard. But i don't think it was necessary because he could have just explained it to her and she would have stop saying her name. I can see Tom's point of view on this issue. He thought it was important to hit her because she had to know who was the boss and who had the money. He also might respect daisy and don't want anyone saying anything bad about her. I think Nick is just a bystander witnessing everything occurring around hum, He is also willing to help them by keeping the secrets that can mess everything up. He knows too much about the people and I think that is the reason why he is so frustrated and wanted to share these secrets with someone. He just wanted to lessen his guilt of knowing all the secrets and he did that by writing a book.