the "monster"

the "monster" in grapes of wrath is looked at as the bank. taking and stealing everything it can that will make a profit. this monster is one of the most inconsiderate things there is. with not a care in the world of who it's effecting. the only thing it wants is to make more money. finding new ways to make a greater profit even if that means some people have to die.

grapes of wrath

Turtle=nature. slow; has a shell; been around for quite some time. lives for a ling time.
Jim- is a lost preacher. he is questioning his believe in god but says he loves people.

road/ c
i should stop leaving up my blogspot

grapes of wrath; 1&2

Chapter one is a short chapter. only talking about the dust and how it drifted in and what it did to them and how it affected everyone. In chapter two a man named Joad tricks a truck driver into giving him a ride by saying if he doesn't that he would be a bad guy. Knowing the truck driver doesn't want to a bad guy. along their way they talk about ways to pass the time until Joad takes a few drink and gets a lose..

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order of development

how nick narrates the novel.
-i will start off by naming his morals and how he was raised by his father.
-i will show you how he describes other people. how he shows distinction between fact and rumors
-third. how nick makes his own choices based on the people around him.
- lastly. how he is a dependable narrator.

chp 9

For the rest of the day and for more to come, reporters and people the same gather outside of Gatsby's mansion. word spreading of the tragedy. Stronger rumors then those of him and his parties. Nick wanted a big funeral for him. Calling those he could but no one came. everyone was either gone or had moved on like Tom and Daisey. shortly after this Nick gets a message from Henry C. Gatz telling him to hold the funeral until he gets there. after everything blows over nick decides he sick of it all. and wants to go home to Minnesota. but not until he breaks off his ties with Daisey. she gets upset and claims she is already engaged. nick see's tom a few weeks later and is upset with him. tom tells him that he is the one who told mr. wilson. nick decides that tom and daisey are just bad people and thinks that all the people in the east are all the same. nicks final night in east egg he erases something that someone has tagged on gatsby's mansion and lays out by the stars thinking of life.

chp 8

Gatsby gets home late and stays out even later watching Daisy's house from outside making sure everything is okay. even though nick tells him to let it go and go home. the next morning Nick goes over to Gatsby's house although it makes him extremely late for work. while over at Gatsby's house he tells him that you should think of moving. Gatsby insists that he cant leave her again and goes on to say that he loves when they are interrupted by the Gardner. who says that fall is turning and he is going to drain the pool. Gatsby says to him that he should wait another day although he has never once used it. Through out the rest of Nick's day he finds himself distracted; too distracted to even go on his date with Jordan. Mr Wilson starts to wonder who Myrtles killer could be. Later that day after work he goes over to Gatsby's house and shoots him while he laid in his pool on an air mattress followed by him taking his own life. After work Nick goes back to Gatsby's house to find him dead along with Mr. Wilson..

1. characters: Mr Gatsby, Nick, Jordan, George Wilson, Daisey, Michealis, gardener
2. symbol: when Daisey's bedroom light shuts off

chp 6

a reporter from new york comes over to mr. gatsby's house to ask him about his life. thats when nick informs her about how he started out as poor nobody from when he was seventeen. he includes everything from then until the man you see today. about how Dan Cody was his mentor and gave him food, clothes, and place to sleep. until mr. cody mysteriously dies and his wife takes everything. including the money he set aside for mr. gatsby. tom doesn't not like gatsby. he is starting to have an idea that there might be something between gatsby and daisy. and is insulting by both of them all night. with daisy giving him a pencil to write girls addresses and gatsby saying he "knows" his wife and by calling him the "polo player".
by now you start to see a big change in mr. gatsby's parties now that he doesnt need to impress daisy anymore.

east egg= old money
west egg=new money/ wild wild west style compared to east. more of young uncivilized additude.
*people go west to re-event themselves to re-create there name*
both west egg and east egg are the birth of dreams
metphor. dan cody's ship; the "Toulomee"- translated to-- To all of me-
Mr. Sloane & Mrs. Sloane- examples of the supper rich
Miss Baedaker symbolizes a wreck. similiar to cars

chp 5

mr gatsby offers to pay off nick in order for him to set a "tea party" so that gatsby can see daisy again and hopefully make something of them. at first things are akward having him over at nicks. mr gatsby nocks over nick's old clock. finally he says that they should all go over to his place. when they do. gatsby shows off all his nice things and daisy cries over his nice english shirts. mr gatsby get mr klipspringer to come play the piano. while daisy and gatsby hit it off and dance. nick decides to leave and allow them to rekindle there love for each other alone.

words of the day

feigned- mickey can be very feigned when something goes wrong.
languidly-after our championship game we were all became languidly
complacency- after winning state the girls complacency caused her to get smacked in the in face.
levity- during the girls game, there was mad scramble for the ball which made a levity with in the crowd.
extemporizing- next period, jake will be extemporizing his speech on wedding vows.
supercilious- our senior's (mainly jake) were highly supercilious towards the underclassmen.
wan- through the holocaust many people became wan.
prodigality- most young people today are prodigality. what they should be doing is putting there earnings into a bank account.
infinitesimal- although i have never seen one i believe leprechauns are infinitesimal.
fractiousness- josh cotton was very fractiousness towards mickey.

chp 4

nick keeps tabs on everyone at mr. gatsby's party by writing them on a train table. mr. gatsby takes nick out to lunch to met mr. wolfsheim. who is a gangster. along the way they were pulled over by a cop and mr. gatsby shows him a white card and is then just let go without a word. nick then wonders what kind of man mr gatsby is... mr gatsby tries to get nick's help by arranging a "tea party" in order for him to see daisy. who he is madly in love. and in the end jordan tells nick about how mr. gatsby told her a secret about he is in love with daisy and that he bout the mansion in order to be close to her.

Chp 3

nick was finally invitied to the party. as people were driven to and from with mr. gatsby's royals royce. noticing crates of lemons and oranges and overflowing with food as the musicians play. jordan and nick hook up. they go into the library to meet owl eyes. nick talks with mr gatsby not realizing who he is. are they way out jordan crashes and she explans thats why she likes nick because he's careful and she's not.