Chapter 20 (Grapes)

We vs. I

The Role of Women

Casy takes the blame for knocking down the cop

Ma feels responsible for feeding all the kids

Floyd Knowles - Talkin' Red (Communism of time (Soviet Union)), fixing car to go North

Hooverville - Ragged town of tents and cardboard boxes, "Homeless Town"

• Allusion to Herbert Hoover
  

Mayor

Contractor

Connie disappears/goes away

• Poverty drives families apart

Uncle John gets Drunk

-----

CHAPTER 21


Muloch is the God of Capitalism

Grapes of Wrath "Monster"

To me, the machine is a symbol of destruction and anger. All it does is cut down fields and crops that farmer's have attended to all their lives pretty much, striving over their fields day after day, just to have it taken away from them because the bank doesn't want them there anymore. Whoever is operating this behemith of a tractor, AKA Willy Freely, is also becoming part of a tractor. For a man that operates a tractor all day just for three dollars, is a working monkey for the bank. A poor man who would do anything to feed his family. This Monster is the symbol for machines, capitalism, and humanity. Nothing but unfairness work put towards driving innocent farmers away fro their hard earned and heat scolding lands.

Grapes of Wrath: Turtle

All the turtle wants to do is cross the road and be free. As he's making his way across, a car stands to speed up the road, a Sedan that is. It doesn't see the turtle until the last split second and veers off to the side almost crushing the turtle. Even if it were to hit it, I don't think that it would have crushed the turtle, since his shell is extremely tough to shatter. He continues on his way across the street, when another car speeds down the road. This time though, the car tries to hit the turtle. Nicking the side of the shell, the turtle spins out of control, popping it's head and legs back into the shell for protection.
Good thing that the turtle has a hard exterior shell, that's almost indestructible. The slow movement of the turtle gives off the view that this turtle acts like an old person trying to get somewhere. Turtles have been around for many years, hundreds, maybe even thousands and millions. They can make it through anything that comes their way.

Grapes of Wrath (chapters 1-2)

Chapter 1

The story begins with the explanation of the Dust Bowl, and how it had affected the lands of the Panhandle and such. The dust blew in all over the territory and crops of many farmers, into homes and buildings, cars and anything alike. Men stand along their crop fields, gazing in disbelief at their newly ruined crops, knowing that their food wouldn't be eatable.

Setting: The Red and Grey Country, Panhandle Area, Oklahoma and Nebraska territory.


Chapter 2

The story moves towards a truck stop diner, where we find a large man sitting at the counter on a stool, wearing nothing but brand new cheap clothes. As he sips his coffee, he interacts with the waitress, trying to draw up conversation and the needless random questions. The man leaves the diner, only to find a man sitting outside, just waiting to ask him for a ride. We later find out that the hitchhikers name is Joad, a convicted man who commited homicide. As the roll on down the road, we learn the pasts and presents of the two men. Both with great intentions in their eyes. At the end of the chapter, Joad is let out at the beginning of a dirt road, as the man in the red truck squeels away down the other way.


Exposition: The Dust Bowl moving all over the Panhandle Area
Inciting Event: The man meets Joad

Citation

Duboff, Josh.
iPhone Addiction is for Real, says Stanford Study.
Stanford College. March 8, 2010.
Web Page/Article
http://nymag.com (/daily/intel/2010/03/iphone_addiction_is_for_real_s.html)
DOL: March 8, 2010

Ng, Amanda.
Phone Turns Users Into Junkies, Study Finds.
Chicago, Illinois. March 9, 2010.
Web Page
http://www.huffingtonpost.com (/2010/03/09/iphone-addiction-study-pa_n_490748.html)
DOL: March 9, 2010

Jessica.
Overcome iPhone Obsession or Smart Phone Addiction
August 18, 2009.
Web Page
http://www.saching.com (/Article/iPhone-Addiction--Overcome-iPhone-obsession-or-Smart-phone-addiction/3563)
DOL: August 19, 2009

Laster, Jill.
Students Worry About iPhone Addiction
March 1, 2010.
Web Page/Article
http://chronicle.com (/blogPost/Students-Worry-About-iPhone/21539/)
DOL: March 1, 2010.

Gatsby Study Guide

Great Gatsby Study Guide
Main Plot:
Exposition: Chapters 1 and 2. Nick gets reacquainted with Daisy and Tom, Nick sees Gatsby reaching towards the Green Light, Tom and Myrtle’s Party.
Inciting Event: Nick goes to Gatsby’s Party.
Rising Action:
• Nick meets Wolfsheim
• Jordan tells Nick about Gatsby and Daisy
• Nick arranges for Gatsby and Daisy to meet
• Gatsby goes to Daisy’s House
• Gatsby’s Second Party
Climax: Tom confronts Gatsby on how he makes his money, which freaks Daisy out.
Falling Action:
• Daisy hits Myrtle with the car
• Gatsby watches Daisy from afar
• Nick sees Tom and Daisy conferring
• Gatsby is shot and killed by Wilson
• Nobody comes to Gatsby’s Funeral
Resolution: Nick is sick of it all and returns home to the West

Symbols
• The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg: The Eyes of God and Death
• The Green Light: Gatsby’s Dream, Infiniate Possabilities, Daisy, (Return to Past)
• Gatsby’s Car: Freedom, Wealth, Wrecklessness; (Motif: Bad Drivers)
• West Egg (New Money) , East Egg (Old Money), Valley of Ashes (Death) , New York (Reality)
• Owl Eyes: Sees more than what is really there (sounds like Allies
• Dog Collar:
• Daisy’s Necklace: $350,000 Necklace Tom bought; Daisy’s security
• White Girl Hood, Rise of the Colored Races, Beautiful Little Fool


Ironies
• Rise of the Colored Races
• Beautiful Fool
• Daisy killing Myrtle (Situational Irony)
• Nick forgetting but remembering his birthday (Situational Irony)
• Nick is called a bad driver by Jordan, who herself is a bad driver
• Nobody comes to Gatsby’s Funeral
o Klipspringer calls for his shoes
o Wolfsheim cant get mixed-up in it
o Gatsby’s Father arrives
• Nick sees Tom, the richest man he knows, acting like a child

Subplot: Jordan & Nick
Exposition: Nick meets Jordan at Daisy’s house
Inciting Event: Gatsby’s Party
Rising Action:
• They begin to date each other
• Jordan tells Nick the back story of Gatsby and Daisy
• He remembers the story of Jordan cheating at Golf
• Discussion about Bad Drivers
• Nick and Jordan with Daisy and Gatsby at Daisy’s house
Climax: NYC – Tom confronts Gatsby, making Nick remember he forgot his birthday
Falling Action:
• Seeing the aftermath of Myrtle’s accident
• Refusing to come inside Tom’s house
• Hanging up on Jordan
Resolution: Jordan telling Nick she is engaged. Admits he’s still half in love with her, but still leaves anyways.




Dynamic Character
• Nick Carraway: Doesn’t judge people in the beginning. Towards the end he hates everyone and decides he wants to move away back West to where he belongs.
• George Wilson: He was an innocent man in the beginning. In chapter 7, he sees his wife killed in the middle of the street. Chapter 8, he goes and kills Gatsby, thinking it was him who killed Myrtle, then shoots himself.

Settings
• West Egg: New Money
• East Egg: Old Money
• Valley of Ashes: Death and Sorrow
• New York City: True Reality

Allusions
• The 1919 World Series (Black Sox Scandal)
• Wolfsheim – Arnold Rothstein (real person)
• Buchanan – President James Buchanan (15th President)
• J. P. Morgan – Railroad Tycoon (Richest Man in the 1900s)
• Midas – Literary Allusion – Man who turned things to Gold
• Dutch Sailors – Seeing America for the first time
• Songs – The History of Jazz (Paul Whiteman)
• The Rise of the Color Empire
• Roosevelt – Teddy Roosevelt
• Silent Movies/Worlds Fair/Coney Island


Themes
• The Failure of the American Dream
o George Wilson – Failure to Succeed
o Gatsby is Chapters 7-9
• Myrtle – Dream of being Rich
• Wolfsheim
• God is Dead
o Immoral ----→ Tom has so many affairs (Still comes up untouchable)
o The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg – Look down on the death of Myrtle and nothing happens to Daisy, but Gatsby gets murdered.
• Jordan cheating at Golf
• People getting blindly drunk and wrecking cars
• The Inability to Repeat the Past / The Meaning of Time
o Gatsby wants to return five years in the past and marry Daisy in Lousiville – Daisy has a daughter now
o Wolfsheim talks about the past (friend gets shot)
o Jordan talking about Daisy and Gatsby’s past
o Last chapter – Boats against the Current sailing into the past
• The Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties
o Flappers / Rise of Female Athletes
o Abundance of People always Drinking
o Dances & Music
o Rise of Organized Crime
o The idea of living in the moment
o The war and the desire for some to return to somewhere else

Short Answers
+ What are some ways Gatsby invented himself?
• Changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby
• Buys a big house and everything to impress one girl
• Went to Oxford (Oggsford)
+ What are some images, motifs associated with Daisy?
• The Green Light
• Last Name: Daisy Fey
• Her voice is full of money (White Girl Hood)

+ What images, motifs are associated with Gatsby? What does his name suggest?

• Gatsby → Gats (Guns)
• Car
• House
• Suits
• The Grand Parties
• The Honorable Thief

+ What motifs are associated with Jordan Baker?

• Bad Drivers
• Balancing something on her chin
• Golf

+ What image is connected with Myrtle at the end of the book?

• The dog collar
• Tom has her on a leash but doesn’t plan on making her equal











+ Discuss the following:

• Time
o We are all caught in time & are slaves to it
• Rumors
o Mysteries about Gatsby
• Discuss who Gatsby is – Negative Ways – “It’s exciting”
o Intelligence (Higher Class: Ideas) (Lower Class: People)
• Green Light
o Dreams
• Parties
o Wrecklessness – Wildness of the time
• Cars
o Freedom – Also shows wrecklessness with that freedom


+ Discuss the meaning of the last page of the novel

Represents the time of the era and the dreams people have been having throughout the book. The dreams hold infinite possibilities until they come in contact with time and events in the time.



• Gatsby attended Oxford: TRUE
• Tom was in WWI: FALSE
• George knew who Myrtle’s lover was: FALSE
• Gatsby first met Daisy in Louisville: TRUE
• Gatsby bought his father a house: TRUE

Chapter 9 Journal

Alot of reporters and such go to Gatsby's house and try to find out all the informaton about Gatsby's death. Nick decides he wants to set up a funeral for Gatsby and wants all his friends and family to come. Everyone Nick wnats to come to the funeral either turns it down or he can't find them. The only ones to be at Gatsby's funeral are Nick, Gatsby's father, some servants, and Owl Eyes. We learn a little about his father, and how Gatsby's bought him a house. Nick realizes how sick he is of where he is now, and decides he wants to move back to the west where he feels as though he belongs. He breaks up with Jordan when he hangs up on her cause she wanted to go out on a date with him, then she reveals to him that she's actually engaged now. Before Nick is about to leave, he finds Tom walking down the street. They chat for awhile, and Tom admits he told Wilson that it was Gatsby's car that hit Myrtle. This makes Nick really see the true side of Tom and Daisy and realizes they're self centered arrogant people. Nick goes over to Gatsby's mansion before he leaves back to Minnesota. He lays down staring at the moon light. He realizes that the people he's been hanging out with, are the ones who aren't his style.