Book Review of "The Great Gatsby"

Bootlegged gin, cigarettes placed into mouths following the clicking shut of their golden cases, gowns, suits, chauffeurs. Games, double meanings, illicit affairs, fortunes made in mysterious ways, drinking to drown an awkward moment or the quiet disappointment of your life. This is the world of The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitgerald’s 1925 masterpiece. The novel follows the young Nick Carraway as he recounts a summer in the 1920’s that he spent in New York
. It centers on his relationship with his cousin, Daisy, her husband, Tom, and how he gets drawn into the middle of Daisy’s affair with his neighbor, the mysteriously wealthy, unabashedly charming Mr. Jay Gatsby. Though at times his book comes off feeling like a tedious bore, Fitzgerald’s labors to create 1920 Long Island serve a very specific and tragic end. Early on, Nick earns the reader’s trust, and as the other characters become less honest and it becomes clear that very little they say or do is genuine, the reader can only sympathize with Nick when he begins to despise those around him. However, the payoff comes when Fitzgerald
displays the heart at the bottom of these seemingly senseless characters. Eventually, the games they play break down, making the display of true emotion--and more specifically, true desire--distinctly striking. At that point, the novel also becomes a story of consequence and ascends its prior tedium; the recklessness of these characters leads to their demise. In Gatsby, we're introduced to a doll-house. We're shown a world of glass, and though Fitzgerald makes us disgusted with what we've seen, there is something overwhelmingly tragic about watching the whole thing crumble to the ground.

Book review for Eclipse

OK, I liked "Eclipse" better than "New Moon". The pace of the story was great, we saw more Edward and more of the Cullens - which I liked. I loved learning more of the Cullens' back stories.
The build up to the battle was good and the alliance between the "good vampires" and the werewolves against the "bad vampires" led by Victoria was fun. The fight against Victoria was quite gruesome and well told. I still think the development of all the characters is somewhat weak and one-dimensional, except interestingly for Jacob - maybe because of his dual life, we get to know him better.
As for Bella, while she annoyed me less - I still don't really like her. As a heroine for teenage girls, I'm still having trouble with her low self-esteem, her neediness and the fact that she hasn't told her parents about what's going on. I don't like that so many people now know the truth about her and about Edward, including Billy (supposedly her father's best friend) and no one has told Charlie. Someone (maybe Edward?) should sit Charlie down and explain the whole thing to him.

What is Materialism?

Well i think that Materialism is the philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies. In the book "The Great Gatsby", their is a lot of Materialism in it and it is about the characters in this book.

Junior 0.5

Well i am going to have to say that this book is like half of my junior year. It is not going well and it is a really good book. This book is about a girl who moves to a new school is Pheonix where she had to go and live with her father and it was just like me when i had to move from Sulphur Rock to Batesville and i thought that i would not have any friends but i still had one of my best friends with me and i was so excited to move. I was also scared too.

The Crucible

a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.The play was written in the early 1950s as a response to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was to be questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for failing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The reviews of the first production, which Miller felt was stylized and too cold, were largely hostile, although the New York Times noted "a powerful play [in a] driving performance". Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 "Best Play" Tony Award. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Today it is studied in high schools and universities, because of its status as a revolutionary work of theater and for its allegorical relationship to testimony given before the House Committee On Un-American Activities during the 1950s. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.

3 cups of tea

Well this book was not as good as the other ones that i have read, and the words were too small for me to see. I thought it would have been interesting if i had read it but i didn't read it because i was stuck in another book called the cirque de freak and those are really good books if you read them. I read to the fourth book and i stopped because you told us to read the books that we was supposed to read, so i turned that book back into the library and tried to read the book you gave us but it was too hard to read with all of the small words. Please post me a comment!!!!!

"Three cups of Tea"

The book called "Three Cups of Tea" describes Mortenson's transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He did this by co-founding the "Central Asia Institute," which has built over 78 schools in the most remote areas of the countries. This book is about a guy named Mortenson who is a mountain climber. I really didn't like this book because this book's words were too small. Did You Like This Book???