The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Chapter 1-6 Chapter 1 1. “Whenever you feel like criticising any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had" (1). 2. "The Carraways were something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started a wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today." 3.
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was just one of his father’s 17 children. Ben went to South Grammar School for less than two years when he was 8 years old. That was the only education Ben ever had. Ben’s father wanted him to be a clergyman but could not pay for the amount of schooling required.
Chapter 1 Scout (Jean Louise Finch) Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) • Scout recounts her family history o Simon Finch came to America to escape religious persecution o He established a successful farm called Finch’s Landing o All Finch’s have lived there except Scout’s father and uncle • Description of Maycomb, Alabama • Atticus described as a successful lawyer • Introduction of Calpurnia • Scout’s mom died when she was 2 Summer of 1933 (Jem 10, Scout almost 6) • Charles Baker Harris (Dill) moves in next door • Act out various stories they have read • Dill suggests they lure out Arthur “Boo” Radley • Boo’s back-story o “Gang” member o Imprisoned in home; no one sees him for year o 15 years later, stabs father with scissors • Old Mr. Radley dies (of natural causes) • Nathan Radley (Boo’s brother) moves in • Dill fascinated with Boo; dares Jem to touch house • Jem finally caves in; touches house and runs back • Scout thinks she sees window curtain move Chapter 2 • September • Dill leaves and returns to Meridian • Scout prepares for her first day of school • Teacher (Miss Caroline Fisher) doesn’t deal well with kids • Concludes Atticus taught Scout how to read • Makes Scout feel guilty for being educated • Scout complains to Jem; he says she’s trying out a new method of teaching • Walter Cunningham doesn’t have lunch • Ms Caroline offers quarter; says she can pay him back • Cunningham’s too poor to pay back; pay Atticus in product not $ • Scout attempts to explain • Ms Caroline misinterprets and slaps Scout’s hand with a ruler Chapter 3 • Scout blames Walter for getting her in trouble • Jem jumps in; invited Walter for dinner (lunch) • Walter and Atticus
All the time Henery was away, Lyman kept it waiting for him to return. Now, he lets go of it because he is without his brother. As it was foreshadowed at the very start of the story, Lyman walks everywhere he goes.
In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it exhibits the adventures, troubles, and maturing of and eleven year old boy named Huck Finn. Huck Finn comes from the lowest part in white society. His father is a lush, and is never seen doing anything for him. Huck is homeless, but lives with Widow Douglas, who is trying to change him. This doesn’t go very well because he goes back to his ways of being independent.
He states in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass that he “was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot county [sic].” (Douglass 395) Douglass never had the chance of knowing who his actual father was. In his narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he states that the only knowledge he gained of who his father may have been was through others whispers on the plantation. Whenever Douglass was just at twelve months old, his mother was sent away from him. Unlike Jacobs, he never had any chance of knowing his mother. He only had the chance of seeing her a handful of times, which was only at night and his mother had to walk twelve miles both ways to see him, during his life before she passed away.
He had eight sisters and no brothers. In his writings you will find that he loved his parents and had a special relationship with his Mother. He was born in the parsonage in Windsor, Connecticut. His Mother’s father was the extremely powerful and well-respected Solomon Stoddard (also a preacher).5 As any Old Testament scholar would know the name”Jonathan” means “Gift of Jehovah” in Hebrew. He was their only son and studied at the knee of his father.
His father’s death left his family in poverty. Pinkerton fatherless left school and began working at a young age to help support his family. Allan first worked as a runner for a pattern maker, then as an apprentice in the McCauley Cooperage Works, barrel makers (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_pinkerto_1.html). He became one of their sharpest craftsmen, often making
In the end, Daisy and Gatsby got together for a short period of time up until Gatsby’s death. Tom never gave up on his relationship with Daisy either. Tom remained Daisy’s betrothed despite the fact that she changed her mind about him right before they got married. Tom did not even leave Daisy when she killed Myrtle, Tom’s lover. The idea of failure, shown through Fitzgerald’s use of the phrase ‘boats against the current’, agrees with William Troy’s writings in the ‘The Authority of Failure’, where he describes The Great Gatsby as a ‘story of failure’.
Originally Jr book has no religion in it. It has Pre-Columbia America and the project of translating of Jr dictating and Emma writing it down. However, his original story becomes greatly enriched. From Sept 1827 to Jan 1828 Jr and Emma work at the translation and nothing else. There is one copy out; Jr has never seen any plates.