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The poet choice of words (diction). In the beginning of “Hunting Snake” Judith Wright it gives you the feeling of a perfection with the “sun-warmed ”during the “late season’s grace” and “autumn’s gentlest sky”. “Sun-warmed” gives you a cozy feeling. “Late season’s grace”, the word “grace” can normally be connected to the word beauty. Lastly [...] This poem “Where I come from”, is very interesting. The poet, Elizabeth Brewster, uses a lot of imagery to make us think in a very unique way. By using imagery, the poet is trying to make us aware that the place a person is brought up from, would have an impact on what is going [...] Nick Carraway comes of as a lonely character throughout the book and is not very often accompanied. Jay Gatsby is a hopeless romantic and has done everything that he thought was needed to get Nick’s cousin Daisy Buchanan, but was still unable to get her heart in the very end and Gatsby made it very [...] Nick Carraway is presented to readers of ’The Great Gatsby’ as an unflawed character. However, from the first page we instill a whole lot of trust into our storyteller. We instantly trust everything Nick says and querying his opinion is something that rarely comes across the reader’s mind, but when we relise our narrator is [...] Nick Carraway , the partially omniscient narrator of our story ‘The Great Gatsby’, being a man of reserved judgment however ironically has racist qualities. One of the earliest signs of Nick’s racist behavior is in the car with Gatsby on way to lunch when nick is observing cars as they go by and the passengers [...] Body Paragraph for “Pike” The Poem “Pike” uses special word choises to create a violent imagery. In the first Stanza, “pike in all parts, green tigering the gold”. The word “tigering” give us an impression of violent preditor. Because tigers are the most powerful animal in the jungle, and it is also an animal at [...] Summer Farm – Imagery As I read this poem, I could forget about busy and crowded city life and think about relaxing, cosy and calming country life and I had a strong feeling that everything in summer farm is passing slowly, peacefully and thoughtfully. This is all because that Norman MacCaig has used lots of [...] ‘A birthday’ –by Christina Rossetti Structure ‘A Birthday’ is a beautiful poem written by Christina Rossetti. In the first stanza it is very easy to find out all the lines starts with ‘My heart is…’, it brings a childish but naive feeling about this poem, also emphasized those similes afterwards. It’s also obvious to see [...] Imagery – “The City Planners”. In the poem, “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood, there are many examples of “imagery phrases” that are used to create a clean or artificial world. “Houses in pedantic rows” and “sanitary trees” are two examples of how she uses an everyday object, such as a tree, and makes it [...] Chapter nine is the last chapter in the book and I think it is effective in that it sums up the events in the book very well. Nick starts off in a recap of the last two years of his life. After Gatsby’s death Nick puts it on himself to inform people Gatsby may have [...] This chapter begins with Nick heading to Gatsby’s house at 4 in the morning which is when Gatsby had arrived home from The Buchanan’s house. Not much happens at his house other than Gatsby spills his love for daisy, talking about how Tom doesn’t deserve her but he does. We learn all about how Gatsby [...] The last Chapter of The Great Gatsby concludes with Nick trying to find people to come to Gatsby’s funeral, here Gatsby’s voice tells nick to get somebody for him. This reminds me of the book “Death of a Salesman” because the main protagonist also hears things by going into the past, he also wanted people [...] After the Crazy night Nick goes over to Gatsby’s house to find that he had stayed there till four, again seeming a little weak on Gatsby’s part. Tom didn’t try to hurt Daisy, and we hear the story of how he first met Daisy, this story reassuring Nick of Gatsby making me think that this [...] Here we know that Gatsby is in love with Daisy and that he has plans to get back together with her. Tom is somewhat suspicious of this but never has any proof in this chapter. I found his jealousy and suspiciousness was out of line as he had cheated on Daisy. Gatsby after seeing that [...] In chapter 6 of the Great Gatsby a reporter comes to Gatsby’s house to try to get a interview with him, due to the rumors circulating about him. here we learn about Gatsby’s past here we learn that he was cheated and plundered out of his money and from there he dedicated himself to being [...] After reviewing my section on this blog I noticed that I had accidentally skipped out chapter 4 which I believe I put parts of it in my “chapter 5″ response. I immediately remembered the passage about the fruit being brought in and being squeezed as we did test prep with this passage. I thought that [...] Should Animal Testing be banned? All animals have the right to have their lives treated with value and respect; therefore animal testing should be banned. As we debate whether or not we should continue with animal testing, animals keep suffering. It is unfair for experimenting companies to take advantage or animals’ helplessness and abuse their [...] A writer and an architect is almost the same. A writer is like an architect. Both building a building and writing an essay requires the same thought process. Before an architect builds a building, the architect would first need to have a plan like, how is the building going to look like and, what is [...] Stress can be good for you. Stress: pressure or tension exerted on a material object. Most of the time you’ll hear people claiming that being stressful would damage your health and it does not do you any good. Although not many people actually know that having some stress is actually good for you. The “fight [...] I believe that winter is the best season! One reason for this is that in my opinion I think that everything looks really pretty when the snow is covering the ground and hanging from the trees. Everything just looks much more stunning when it is covered with snow! Additionally, Christmas is in winter and I [...] This is the final Chapter where you really get to know the Buchanans, they are selfish and only care about money. Daisy didn’t even show up at Gatsby’s funeral which makes who image decrease even more than it has already and Daisy just becomes this disgusting Character. In this chapter you also find out that [...] The only paragraph we’re allowed to write Is chocolate a real diet and health killer?
Many people misunderstands chocolate, chocolate is actually one of the healthy foods. Most people think chocolate will destroy your diet plan but it’s actually not true. However, it is the most common, most ridiculous and the most unscientific mistake [...] My first impression to chapter seven was that there is a lot that happens, and it is by far one of the most captivating of the chapters. Gatsby is acting differently, we learn that Gatsby has stopped throwing his infamous parties and has fired every servent he had and replaced them with people who wouldn’t [...] In Chapter 9, the last chapter of the novel, we hear Nick reminiscing about what happened in the past 2 years in his life. He tells the story of Gatsby’s death. Nick, being a good friend, tries to get hold of people Gatsby knew, but all those close friends, like Daisy and Mr. Wolfshiem, cannot [...] The chapter starts with descriptions of the extremely luxurious parties that Gatsby throws, showing the lavishness and wealth the upper class people displayed. While Nick and Jordan wanders around looking for Gatsby, they ran into his library and meet this middle aged guy – Owl Eyes. He seemed to be shocked when he discovers the [...] Poets often use unusual images that force us to think in new ways about familiar things. I think it is often difficult to understand the message that poets are trying to convey to the reader, when they use unusual images or concepts.
On the other hand, I think it also sometimes can help you [...] The chapter begins with Nick going over to Gatsby’s at around 4 a.m. when Gatsby returned from the Buchanans’. At Gatsby’s house, pretty much what happens is Gatsby talking about his love for Daisy, how he deserves her and not Tom. Gatsby tells Nick, his and Daisy’s past encounters, where they met at war. Also, [...] I think that Chapter 7 is by far the most interesting, so much happens, and it all happens in the length of a few hours. Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan are at the Buchanans’ house on the summer’s hottest day. Nick only goes because he thinks Ms. Baker will be there, and Gatsby goes because Daisy [...] From Chapter 5 to Chapter 6, a few weeks have gone by where Nick, Gatsby and Daisy haven’t seen each other since their small gathering at Nick then Gatsby’s house. Then, Nick passes through Gatsby’s house where Tom Buchanan is there, along with his horse-riding friends, Mr. and Mrs. Sloane. I was confused of why [...] “Poets often use unusual images that forces us to think in new ways about familiar things” Before I start to write what I need to write, I would first have to say what I need to say. Poets are really smart crazy insane people who really tries to make things real complicated. I really cannot [...] Chapter Six had a lot of explanation of Gatsby and his life, having the interviewer do a report on him. I thought it was a little hard to follow at times but it did help figure out how Gatsby got to be the person he is now in the book. The description of Gatsby from [...] Chapter 5 of the Great Gatsby has been my favorite so far, the reason for this is that it seems to be the most real time in the book. We learn that Mr.Gatsby is not the confident man that he appears to be , or usually presents himself. We also learn about his background and [...] The start of chapter five is slightly odd. Gatsby catches Nick when he comes home from a late party and invites him out again but really you can tell he just wanted to talk about the tea with Daisy. Its obvious to the reader that the only thing Gatsby wants is to be with Daisy [...] Chapter four begins with Nick describing many sorts of people which I think were some of the people who attended the party at Gatsby’s house during the summer. I think its just to illustrate the types of people who would usually go to his parties and the large quantities of people as well. The next [...] “Poets often use unusual images that force us to think in new ways about familiar things.” This idea can be confirmed by almost ever type of poem, as this is the main function of poetry, to make the reader experience a common topic in a new way or approach. For this is the epic struggle [...] After reading chapter three new information is introduced. In this chapter Nick is invited to the party personally by Gatsby, Gatsby’s parties are more lively and seem to be more entertaining than west egg parties. Gatsby doesn’t know half the people that are there and the fact that Nick has an invitation is surprising to [...] We know what Gatsby wants is Daisy, he has been dying to see her again, but never really knew how, until Nick Carraway became his next door neighbour. The chapter starts with Gatsby at Nick’s house waiting for Daisy to arrive, since Nick invited her over for tea. At this point Gatsby is really nervous, [...] Chapter 4 starts off with Nick Carraway mentioning many names of different people, which at first seem pointless, but this list of names are the people who attended Gatsby’s house in the summer. This may suggest abundance, and Gatby’s massive garden in which he can host many people. The image I got while reading this [...] In my own personal reading of The Great Gatsby I have finished Chapter 2. The author starts of by introducing a new place, The Valley of Ashes. I find that instead of “a ash dump” the valley of ashes has you imagine the immensity of the place. He describes the area as being a whole [...] Chapter 2 is interesting in the way that we get to see the influence that Tom has on people. It’s very easy to tell that when Tom is around, he can get people to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants because people depend on him and his money. This goes for Myrtle as well [...] Reading the first few lines of this chapter ” There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights.” I knew that this chapter would involve the fabulous Gatsby house parties which I was egger to get to from the beginning. I recognized the first passage from an exam we had done last year. [...] I anticipated going into chapter two of The Great Gatsby, just coming from seeing Gatsby for the first time I was excited to see where that would take us next. The beginning of chapter two is quiet interesting mentioning the “Valley of ashes”. The valley of ashes has a very detailed description, almost like it [...] Chapter 2 starts with long descriptions of this place – the valley of ashes and Doctor T.J. Eckleburg a place that kind of contradicts with the glamorous ‘eggs’. Honestly, I didn’t really get why the author would spend so many words describing it. Then Nick meets Tom’s mistress Myrtle – the wife of a Wilson [...] After reading the first few pages of Chapter 1, I found it quite confusing and not very easy to understand because of all the oxymorons, lots of details and explanations about the places etc. Then as I read on I found it quite interesting and understood a lot of things during that period of time [...] Right after reading Chapter 3, I knew this would be a rather exciting chapter, where we meet Gatsby. The chapter started by describing one of Gatsby’s well-known parties. His house was described with many lights (enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden’), a massive orchestra (‘orchestra is playing yellow cocktail [...] In Chapter 2, Tom Buchanan invites Nick Carraway to meet his mistress, Myrtle Wilson. They all take a train to Fifth Avenue, where Myrtle’s sister lives. Myrtle’s husband doesn’t know about her affair with Tom, and there is a lot of lying, using the excuse of visiting her sister. I think Tom is quite mischievous, [...] We finished the first chapter of the Great Gatsby this week in english class. I found that the first couple of pages were confusing, but as the author starts to introduce himself and the background of the book it feels much more personal, that the stories that he is telling have some meaning to you. [...] In Chapter 1, we are introduced to a few characters in The Great Gatsby. Throughout Chapter 1, we read the story through Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story. We can see how he sees things, and what he thinks of the other characters. I found the beginning of Chapter 1 very useful, since it’s [...] From chapter 1, we learnt a lot about the narrator, which is Nick Carraway. There are plenty of examples that show that Nick has been raised in a family that has been well of. He shows this through the way he speaks (or tells the story) by narrating in a very proper manner. Nick also [...] A Birthday This poem is really interesting. In the first part of the poem, the poet, is describing about herself about the way she feels. When I read this poem, I feel this kind of inner peace within me. The imagery which the poet is trying to project to me is very clear. The poet [...] |
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