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?