Slaughterhouse Five Reading Notes: Chapt. 3 & 4 (Schachtof Drei & Schlachtof Veir)

- Coital - Sex; uniting sexual intercourse.
- Why did Vonnegut compare sex with war?
- Critical - Making fun of something that is serious.
 - Chaplin - Religious officer in the military. A chaplin can be any religion.
- "Where have all the years gone?"
- Who is Earl Warren?
- Earl Warren was an American jurist and politician who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and the 30th Governor of California.
- Why would Vonnegut bring Earl Warren?
- Why did Vonnegut just go into talking about a dog named Spot? 
- In situations or predicament Billy seems to be neutral.
- Billy's life doesn't seem really exciting. You would think that since he is the main character he would have all these awesome, crazy, drastic things happening to him but for the most part he's kinda boring and lonely.
  

PROPS TO MY COUSIN!!! :)

I'm not the only drummer in my family ;P. A few weeks ago my cousin Jose and his schools drumline went to the Winter Guard International Championships (WGI). It is like the Olympics for drumlines, the best drumlines around the country go to compete in these amazing event. Now it has always been a dream for me and my cousin to go WGI, he and his line had the opportunity to go and actually COMPETE in the competition. I'm so proud of him! Hopefully in the future I get to actually go and see him play at WGI but for now I just want to give him props. :)

Here is a link of him and his schools drumline practicing before the competition. 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GNqTSOoHvRQ

Also here's a little taste of WGI. Enjoy! ;D

This Is Absurd

Absurd - Something that is unreasonable or obviously senseless.

Exp. I think it's absurd that people misinterpret or judge things that they don't understand, have no experience, or expertise. 

Slaughterhouse Five Reading Notes: Chap. 2 ( Schlachtof Zwei)

- Billy Pilgrim is introduced into the story.
- Why is his last name Pilgrim?
- In the book it says that Billy was un-stuck in time.
- What does it mean to be "un-stuck" in time?

Slaughter House Five Reading Notes: Chap. 1 (Schlachthof Eins)

- Kurt Vonnegut is the author also the narrator.
- What is the purpose of the quote before chapter one? "The cattle are lowing, The Baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus No crying He makes."
- "So it goes..."
- Vonnegut describes how he is writing the book in the book. (Very different)

The Great Gatsby Essay!

In the book "The Great Gatsby" Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway to narrate and capture Gatsby's character and the others that were in the novel. I thought it was odd but clever for Fitzgerald to use Nick to tell the story because in most stories it's either the main character or the author that is telling the story and describing the people in the story, so it was nice to have a different way to tell the story by using Nick as the narrator. He seemed got along with most of the characters in the story and he captured their personalities very well since he knew everyone. If Nick was not telling the story I'd feel like we would have not known as much as we would have about the story or the characters. It was also nice hearing some of his thoughts and opinions on the things going on in the story.

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 9

So in chapter nine, as we come to a ending to the story. Gatsby was killed by Wilson because he thought that Gatsby had killed his wife, Myrtle, when she was by the car but we all know that it was actually Daisy who hit Myrtle. Anyways for Gatsby's death Nick tries to throw a big funeral for Gatsby and he invites his friends and acquaintances but they did not show, not even Daisy who ran off with Tom and not giving anyone any information to see or contact them. The only people that show to the funeral are Nick, a couple of servants, Owl Eyes, and Gatsby dad Henry Gatz. Now why didn't anyone else go to Gatsby's funeral? Why did Daisy and Tom just disappear on the face of the earth? 

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 8

In chapter 8 it gets very interesting, I almost didn't want to put the book down. As the story continues Nick tries to convince Gatsby to forget about Daisy but he refused and ignored his decision. After a long period time Gatsby and Daisy make love with one another and they were going to get married once Gatsby came back from the war, but then Daisy decides to marry Tom, *which by the I thought was really messed up, just saying*. But after all the things that Gatsby and Daisy shared and did together, why did Daisy choose Tom? Why did Daisy break her promise to Gatsby? What was her reason for leaving him?

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 7

Now in chapter seven Daisy and Gatsby want to go into the city but Tom wasn't to excited in the idea so he tagged along with them as well as Nick and Jordan. As the day goes on the heat was just overwhelming so the decided to stay at a suite. At the suite Tom asked Gatsby what he thought about Daisy and he replied that Daisy love him and not Tom, he then sends Daisy back to Long Island with Gatsby.

As the Tom and the rest of the guys head back to Long Island, the realized that someone was hit by a car, it was Myrtle. Almost right away they accused Daisy and Gatsby. The weren't there when it happened so why would they accuse the them? Why did they think that Daisy and Gatsby hit Myrtle with their vehicle?  

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 6

So in chapter six one of the things that really catches my eye is that we found out that Gatsby was born as James Gatz, so why did he change his name? And why did Dan Cody, a wealthy man, take in James?
When Tom and Daisy go to Gatsby party why does he keep an eye on Daisy? Tom didn't like the party at all and neither did Daisy. She was upset because Tom was keeping guard like a dog and she wanted to be with Gatsby. Gatsby was also very upset because everything didn't go the way he planned. Now the question is, will it?

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 5

In chapter 5 Nick makes the arrangement for Daisy to meet up with Gatsby. It's been five years since they have seen each other. Now when Nick was taking up to the front door he notices that Gatsby wasn't there, next thing you know Gatsby comes from the the side of his house. Why did Gatsby come from the side of the house indtead of answering the door to greet them?

Gatsby also was trying to avoid the meeting with Daisy at first. He was saying that there was a mistake and that he didn't invite her. Why did try to avoid meeting Daisy? Was he nervous? Was he hiding something? 

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 4

   In chapter four, Gatsby and Nick went to go eat lunch and Gatsby decides to tell Nick about his past. He was explaining how he grew up wealthy from the Midwest, he claimed to have been educated at Oxford, to have been awarded medals in World War I by multiple European countries and etc. So why does Gatsby tell Nick about his past? What gave him the idea to do that? 

   Also on their way to lunch Gatsby gets pulled over by an officer. When the officer goes up to them he hands him a white card, once the officer sees it he apologizes and then lets them go. What was the white card that Gatsby handed to the officer? How come when the officer saw the card he just let them go? 

The Great Gatsby Reading Notes: Chap. 3

In chapter three Gatsby was throwing another of his parties and decides to invite Nick to it this time. As he shows up to the party he notices that Gatsby was alone, not drinking, and he separated himself from the crowd of guests. Nick was curious because why would Gatsby through these parties and not drink or talk to any of the guests?

Essay Overview On Brave New World

I felt like for the essay I did terrible because I never really read the book, I sort of just skim through the it. When it came up to the essay I just wrote and reflected on what I remembered which didn't help me much.