Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl: Chapter 1-5...

The first part of the book is all about her childhood and how her family changed as time went on. In my opinion, the point of this book is to get under your skin and make you feel sorry for the characters. If the editor had taken some stuff out, changed stuff around, or changed the language then it wouldn't be moving. If the incidents are fake and made up then it won't be as shocking when you read it. She's talking about how her family is getting sold and dying, imagine if it was fake, you wouldn't feel anyting towards them. Or at least, I wouldn't.

Notes Of The State Of Virginia...

When Jefferson wrote the Declaration Of Independence he was writing for an extremely large group of people, whereas when he was writing the Notes of Virginia he was writing for himself. He wrote the Declaration Of Independence for the good of the people. Everything he put in it needed to be appropriate for a large group instead of his thoughts. I think the Notes of Virginia are Jefferson's real thoughts and The Declaration are what he wrote because he was supposed to.

The Crisis: No. 1...

Thomas paine wrote passages to motivate the soldiers. When he said, "Panic can produce as much good as hurt" he was talking about using Panic to motivate people. He proposed that people would want to be more involved if there was more panic. I definately agree with his statements. I feel like if there is struggle people will want to help. A perfect example of this that I can think of is just after 9/11. After the attacks, civilian support went sky-rocketing. There was panic about what was going to happen afterwards so people wanted to help.

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God...

The surmons given by Edwards were extremely one-sided. He was basically saying that you either do everything according to God's word or you go to Hell. Edwards didn't leave any room for disagreement or change. It was his way and that was the only way. When I thought about our class discusion, about the people who got kicked out because of what they believed, he comes to mind. The American dream as we stated is, "The pursuit of happiness" I think he is completely disreguarding this idea and saying, You can have the American dream if you are a white God-fearing male.

Chapter 9 Write

In chapter 9, Nick has a big funeral service for Gatsby. Although, the only people that show up are, Nick, Owl Eyes, Gatsby's father, and some of Gatsby's servants. When Nick is inviting people, he finds that no one actually cared about Gatsby. One person, when asked if he's coming or not simply said, "He has my tennis shoes, I'm gonna need those back." If you think about Gatsby's life, no one really knew him. It definately helps explain why no one comes to his funeral. The only two people who actually knew Gatsby were Nick and his father. The two of them talk about Gatsby and his father ends up showing Nick a schedule that Gatsby made when he was a kid.

Chapter 7 & 8 Write

Chapter 7 & 8 revolve around the climax of the book. At the dinner at the beginning of chapter 7 Daisy and Gatsby catch glances of one another and when Tom leaves the room, Daisy goes over and kisses Gatsby. Later on when they decide to go into town, Daisy and Gatsby have a moment where they stare into eachother's eyes even though, Tom is standing right there. I think that is the moment that Tom realizes Daisy's true feelings towards Gatsby. Tom can't deal with the way Daisy is acting so Daisy and Gatsby go in Tom's car and the rest of them go with Tom in Gatsby's car. The reason why they switched cars isn't completely explained, but it is a major part in the accident later on. On their way to town Tom stops to get gas. While they're in town, Tom calls Gatsby out in front of everyone and causes a big ordeal. On the way home Myrtle runs out into the street thinking it is Tom and Daisy, who is driving Tom's car, hits and kills her. If Daisy & Gatsby hadn't had their loving moment in front of Tom, then things would've gone differently and Myrtle might have not been killed. This is why I think their moment was the foreshadowing of the climax.

Chapter 6 Write

In Chapter 6 we find out the truth about Gatsby. Everything we know about Gatsby up until this point has been a lie. Gatsby has told us so much and we have found out all these wonderful things about him only to find they're all false. I think the reason Nick waited until now to tell us the truth is to build up the story, that is Gatsby. The story revolves around Gatsby and the story of his life. If we knew he was simply a man who made his money with the mob then there would be no mystery behind him. Gatsby loved to be seen as mysterious. No body knew Gatsby until Nick came along. Even at his parties, he could walk amongst the people and not be recognized. Another reason I think Nick waited to tell us is to let us know that there is more to Gatsby. If he had just told us at the beginning then we wouldn't think anything of Gatsby, we would just see him as a con-man or a fake. But since Nick waited, we're able to see that there is more to Gatsby. We end up feeling a sense of emotion whenever something happens to him. I wouldn't've felt emotion for him at all if I knew he was a fake from the beginning.