Thursday, May 30, 2013

SCHLACHTOF ZWEL

ABSURD: Wildly unreasonable, illogical or in appropriate.
One example that happens a lot that is absurd to me is that everyone thinks my mom and i look like sisters.

- Apparently he got the saying "so it goes" from tralfamdorian.
-When the author said that Billy went to Joe College it reminded me of one of the homework assignments because we had to title it that.
-Also this book is very confusing. Now i know why it's considered postmodernism because nothing is in order. It skips around a lot.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

"SCHLACHTHOF EIN"

SCHLACHTHOF EIN: a slaughter house.
Explanation: This is the title of the novel.


  • was a prisoner at slaughter house during war.
  • He wrote a book about what had happen to him in Dresden.
  • His old war buddy was Bernard V. OH' are.
  • wanted Bernard V. O'Hare to help him write his book by helping him remember what had happen.
  • Uses the phrase so it goes when he talks about people dying or being dead.
  • He was rescued during the war and was taken care of also got sent home. Where he met his wife.
  • He worked as a police reporter for the famous Chicago City News Bureau.
  • He was an United World Federalist.
  • He took his daughter, nanny, her best friend Allison Mitchell when he went to visit his old war buddy.
  • He thought Mary O'Hare hated him.
  • He dedicated the book to Mary, O'Hare's wife and Gerhard Muller, the taxi driver.
  • He was going to call the book "The children's crusade."
  • He didn't want his sons to have anything to do with the war.

Great Gatsby Remix

Ivory and Mac were in high school together. They were soul mates, best friends, and were madly in love with each other. They did everything together. One day after school Mac's parents broke some bad news to him. His parents were in the military and they were being transferred to another base far away. Mac was so upset and he broke down crying when he had to to tell Ivory what was going on. The first couple months while they were separated they kept in touch with each other writing the old fashion letters. They soon lost touch. Ivory's parents told her it was time to move on and that they had arranged a marriage for her. Someone who had a lot of money who would take care of her finically. She didn't love him she was only doing this to make her parents happy. After a couple years they were married they started their own family. Mac finally moved out on his own to fine his true love again. He heard that she never moved out of their home town, so he went back. They ran into each other at a market. They walked together to a cafe to catch up with each other. They met up there everyday, it was like they had never left each other. They told her husband that she was leaving him. The day after somebody robbed  Mac's house and killed him. Ivory was so scared and didn't know what to do she stayed with her husband and acted like nothing has happened.

Great Gatsby Essay

       In the novel Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway, is the confidant. His curiosity gave us a tour of Jay Gatsby's life. The reason why he is the confidant is because he is a good listener to everyone. He also becomes good friends with Gatsby who seems like the hero in this novel. He is also related to Daisy who is the heroine.
        Nick's character changes the plot through out the novel. This is because everyone is so comfortable to tell him everything. Which gives him the inside stories of everyone life and everything that happens. He is basically the middle man to everyone. He helps the reader understand what is going on because he describes it through his eyes.
       I think the book wouldn't be as good if we didn't know who was the telling the novel. It wouldn't be as interesting like it is when someone who is actually involved in the story. It gives us a perspective of what to imagine.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Great Gatsby Active Reading Notes

CHAPTER 1:
- What does communicative mean?
- Was it bad to be a politician?
-What does parceled mean?
-What did the author mean when he used the description creative temperament?
- what is the definition of phenomenon
-Nick lived in West egg.
-Daisy was Nick second cousin.
-Tom was the best football player at New Haven.
 -East egg is more wealthy.
-West egg is more middle class.
-What does conveyed mean?
- Why was Mrs. Baker so quite when Nick entered Tom and Daisy's house?
- I don't understand what Daisy means by the longest day in the year.
- What is Nordies.
CHAPTER 2:
- What does impenetrable mean?
-Did Tom really have a mistress?
- Why does Tom have a mistress when he is married?
-Why is he seeing a married women?
-Tom's mistress name is Myrtle Wilson.
- What does Haughtily mean?
- An example of post modernist art is "the large photograph of a hen sitting on a rock. But if you from a distance it turns into a bonnet."
- What doe haughter mean?
- Catherine is Myrtle's Wilson's sister.
- Myrtle never loved her husband.
-Why didn't anybody do anything when Tom hit Myrtle?
CHAPTER 3:
- What is an omnibus?
-What does prodigality mean?
-Nick was one of the few guest who had actually been invited to Gatsby's parties.
-What does homogeneity mean?
- Gatsby was in war out the same time Nick was.
- At the end of the night everyone was arguing.
-Nick had a little affair with a girl in Jersey.
- Nick realizes Jordan Baker is dishonest.
CHAPTER 4:
-Why did the author started listening to all those names.
-What does punctilious mean?
-Why did Gatsby feel he had to explain himself to Nick?
-Gatsby carries two things in his pocket.
-A medal from Montenegro.
-A photograph of half of a dozen men in blazers.
-Why did Gatsby feel embarrassed when he was introduced to Tom and then just disappeared?
CHAPTER 5:
- Why did Mr. Gatsby think it was a mistake meeting Daisy?
CHAPTER 6:
-I was surprised that Tom was at Gatsby's house.
-Why did Tom and the others ditch him?
CHAPTER 7:
- Gatsby hired new people so they wouldn't gossip about Daisy coming over in the afternoons.
-Also shocked that Daisy would kiss Gatsby at her house with Tom (her husband) there.
-Was Tom mad that he found out that Myrtle was moving?
-Why did Gatsby flat out tell Tom about everything between him and Daisy.
-How did Nick forget his own birthday?
-Michaelis was Mr. and Mrs. Wilson's neighbor.
-Myrtle and her husband got into a fight ad she stormed off but then got hit by a car.
-It was a yellow car.(Gatsby's car)
- Daisy Killed Myrtle.
CHAPTER 8:
- Mr. Wilson shot Gatsby.
-Nick called a lot of people to see if they would attend Mr. Gatsby's funeral.
-Daisy and Tom moved away.
- They all said no its funny how they cant go to his funeral but they could attend his parties every night.



Thursday, May 9, 2013

MY MODERNIST PROJECT:

Sorry it took me so long to post this up i was having computer difficulties.
Well here it is....
http://www.mindmeister.com/274890374