Team+Hannah+Montanna

MYSPACE- for the myspace idea we will only make a page for two of the characters and then have write on each other walls, add photos, bios, and links that are in the characters likeness. These two character pages only count as one part out of the eight part project. So I will start reading and working on the myspaces. Any ideas or want to help with this aspect? let me kno -leanne

I was thinking we could do something with the places Fitzgerald lived. We could make a small book of the places he lived, which includes St. Paul, NY state, NJ, AL, NYC, Long Island, French Riveria, Rome, Paris, Hollywood, Switzerland, and North Carolina, with pictures of them and how they affected his work and what he did there.- Rachel

Myspace Pages: Nick- http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=316345112 Myrtle- http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=316429402&MyToken=354d50db-d84f-4de3-ada5-54586be8e80e

Myrtle Wilson Cwsoccer101@comcast.net PW- gatsby2 Please look at them and add/edit anything you feel necessary!
 * __The myspace logins are as follows__**: Nick Carraway- leann590@msn.com PW- gatsby1

1) 2 myspaces 2) CD 3) Fitzgerald Book coffeetable book/ real estate 4) menu 5) race car drivers- the car for 2 characters that are consistent with their character traits 6) party invitations 7) movie preview 8) Daisy book, I have pictures to use. Some still-lifes of her that show her differing personalities and wealth.

I was also thinking of doing party invitations, since Gatsby threw a lot of lavish parties. I also do calligraphy, so I can make them look professional.- Rachel

I really like that idea rach. Adding it to the list. Also, I think we need to be 101872736187263x better than other groups cause naturally, were the coolest. - cw

Should we add the movie/script to the list? - Katrina

Yeah I added it. Hope everyone had a good New Year. Um we need to start working on this, how are we going to divide all of this? - caroline

I took the movie script out because i think the movie preview is enough. So, I'll do that and the menu. Was there something else someone wanted to do for the eighth? -KS

Caroline, Rachel, Katrina, Leanne








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-We see further development of Gatsby and Fitzgerald reveals some more of the mystery of his character. For the first time Gatsby seems human, unlike the unknown new money man, who throws extravagant parties. Gatsby seems less like a celebrity. -We can further understand Gatsby's purpose in the book. Understanding his true intentions are key in the plot of the book. Does Gatsby really want to offer Nick a job, or is he just smoozing him? -It is easy now to see through Gatsby's facade of wealth, he is really just a simple man who had "thrown himself into it with a creative passion.." -Gatsby looses is cool suave appearance and falls into a nervous wreck at the sight of Daisy; he is in complete awe that he is finally accomplished and showing her his mansion. With this, the seriousness of Gatsby's love for Daisy is shown. "He literally glowed" DAISY -This chapter is one of the only times we see a sentimental side of Daisy, usually flirty and upbeat, Nick walks in on her with tears running down her face. She is also human, but often blinded by her greed. -Her flirty personality is reinforced as she flirts with Nick while getting out of the car. "Are you in love with me?" NICK -His equal tolerance of Tom and Myrtle, and Gatsby and Daisy, infers that he is impartial and a simply an observer- supports his description of himself as an honest man who simply observed the life of the East. -We see Nick enduring yet another awkward situation quite well, and his dedication to Gatsby as a good friend. Not only did he invite Daisy over, but he also calmed Gatsby on pg. 88, giving him confidence to go back into the room so as not to leave Daisy alone. || (pg. 90)- Daisy's flirtatious personality (pg.86)- "There was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-bring radiated from him and filled the little room." (pg. 91)- "We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk...and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her (Daisy's) well-loved eyes.* (pg.96)- "I think it was that voice that held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over dreamed..."* Gold/Silver - symbolizes Gatsbys inescapable image of wealth. Intentional? White Suit, Pale face - innocence Gatsby knocking over the clock -symbolizes his clumsiness in attempting to stop time and relive the past Grass - green, symbolizing Gatsby's greed to make this reunion the way it is in his elaborate dream Green Light - Daisy is now near to him. They are reunited after 5 years. Gatsbys dream begins to fade away just as the Green Light's significance fades to just a green light at the end of a dock. || (p.84) - Gold/Silver/ White suit (p.93) - Green Light; top paragraph "Possibly it had occured ... " || - Can two lost loves really forgive and forget? Can Gatsby forgive her for not waiting? Can Daisy forget that Gatsby left her? - Dream vs. Reality this chapter really develops the contrast between their young dreams and thier actual reality. They are no longer love sick teenagers. The realization of the green light's purpose now has Gatsby learn that this is reality, not the rambunctious American Dream of the 20s. || Further into the chapter more observations are made and these observations are really where Fitzgerald fluently intensifies the imagery. During the tour of the house, the great description of colors and the types of rooms they tour reinforces the lavish lifestyle that is so important to Daisy. The diction is interesting and by no means mediocre, but I think that the syntax is was really makes the writing style unique in this chapter. Long sentences and words like 'and' are used by Nick more often then necessary to encourage the feeling of Gatsby's endless and overwhelming mansion.
 * **Caroline and Leanne**
 * CHAPTER): 5** ||
 * **NOTES** ||
 * **QUOTES** ||
 * CHARACTERIZATION ||
 * -GATSBY
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 * (pg.87)- offering Nick the Job, almost out of pity or as a bribe.
 * Both quotes show Gatsby's intense devotion to Daisy and his excitement to please her, as well as the provoking the idea that his dream was starting to develop into reality. ||
 * PLOT ||
 * Nick returns home to find Gatsby walking outside his entirely eluminated house. After offering him a job, Gatsby wants to get the grass cut before Daisy comes over and is clearly anxious to meet with her. The tea party is awkward at first and Gatsby is nervous, but eventually the rain stops and Gatsby insists that the three of them head over to the mansion. He wants to give Daisy a tour, showing off his wealth is easy--all the while he is disbelief that his love is actually standing in front of him. After showing Daisy his shirts and house, they head downstairs and he demands, in a nice way, Klipspringer to play the piano. Gatsby and Daisy forget about Nick and become absorbed with each other. Nick leaves the two of them together on the couch in the twilight and 'possessed by intense life'. ||
 * SYMBOLISM ||
 * Rain - symbolizes Gatsby's fear in his meeting. Hopeful but incredibly nervous
 * SYMBOLISM ||
 * Rain - symbolizes Gatsby's fear in his meeting. Hopeful but incredibly nervous
 * Rain - symbolizes Gatsby's fear in his meeting. Hopeful but incredibly nervous
 * (p.89) - Rain
 * THEMES ||
 * - European, Feudal, properness vs. American fast paced way of life. - Gatsby's imported clothes, antiques. He wants to impress Daist with his image of old, respected money rather than this new possible drug, quickly made money. We as readers know he is putting on a facade.
 * - European, Feudal, properness vs. American fast paced way of life. - Gatsby's imported clothes, antiques. He wants to impress Daist with his image of old, respected money rather than this new possible drug, quickly made money. We as readers know he is putting on a facade.
 * (p.91) - gold toiletries, Chartreuse, Marie Antoinette music rooms ||
 * WRITING STYLE ||
 * Fitzgerald's writing style is really beautiful in chapter four- the description of the parties and all the extravagance. However, chapter five shows us a little more dialog and Fitzgerald's skill in creating outstanding feelings. During the scene at Nick's house, you can feel the tension, embarrassment, and awkwardness of the whole situation.
 * Fitzgerald's writing style is really beautiful in chapter four- the description of the parties and all the extravagance. However, chapter five shows us a little more dialog and Fitzgerald's skill in creating outstanding feelings. During the scene at Nick's house, you can feel the tension, embarrassment, and awkwardness of the whole situation.

Fitzgerald can say unpleasant things with such grace, that they almost seem pleasant. || (pg.92) "piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high." -great imagery (pg.92) "He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray." -imagery, 'and', throwing them- as if they are worthless, easy to come by. (pg.95) "There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way." - a beautiful description of why Gatsby became so wealthy and how he is so close to attaining his dream. 'colossal vitality' and 'every bright feather that drifted his way' strike a chord. We understand that Gatsby is lost in this reality, but instead of just saying this, it is glossed over by Fitzgerald's style. (pg.96) "--that voice was a deathless voice." intriguing word choice. Is it ironic that Gatsby and his dream of a life with Daisy actually die? ||
 * (pg.91) "We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, with sunken baths.." Shows the elongated style that makes you feel as though the mansion goes on and on.

PLOT The plot starts out with reporters come, asking quetions about Gatsby's past. We find out his real name is James Gatz. We also find out that the Gatsby we know springs from the conception of himself. "The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was the son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything,means just that-and he must be about his Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and metericious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gastsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end." p 98 We find out that he is cool and suave on the surface, but on the inside, he is restless and upset. "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantasic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable guadiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace." p99 Dan Cody was his mentor, and he took Gatsby all over the world and made him the man he became. He also inherited a large part of Cody's fortune. Tom and Gatsby meet with Nick and the Sloans. Gatsby mentions that he knows Tom's wife, and Tom is slightly disturbed. Tom and Daisy come to Gatsby's party where they both do not have an enjoyable time. Tom is upset because he is not on par with these famous people and their money. He says to Gatsby that he would rather look "at all of these famous people in oblivion." Daisy is also offended by the manners and customs of those of West Egg. "She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented 'place' that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village-appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitans along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something very awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand." 107 After the party, Gatsby talks to Nick, disapointed that Daisy did not enjoy the party. Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him, and then wants to run away with her, but Nick is skeptical of his plan. "'You can't repeat the past.' 'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!' The chapter ends with a scene five years earlier of Gatsby and Daisy kissing.
 * Katrina and Rachel**
 * Chapter 6**

SYMBOLISM Dan Cody's Yacht- symblolizes the glamourous life Gatsby wants so desperatley. "That yacht represented all beauty and glamour in the world." p100 Looking at the party through Daisy's eyes- Nick sees a new perspective on those who live in West Egg

THEMES New Money will never be as good as old money- not all the money and luxurys in the world will make Daisy leave Tom for Gatsby.

You can't repeat the past- Gatsby has this idea in his head that things can go back to the way they were five years ago, but Nick knows that this cannot happen. Too much has happened since then.||

WRITING STYLE Poetic: Pg. 99 "Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies...of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing." Pg. 99 "the grotesques"- Winesburg! -Symbolism (especially water) and references to philosophers -Long, detailed and elegant sentences (Pg. 99: A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain..."

CHARACTERIZATION Gatsby: -Story of his youth (Pg.98) Beginning of transformation of self to "platonic conception" -Meets Dan Cody-sees American Dream (pg.98). He's trying to perfect himself...overcoming misfortune with success. -Quit janitor job, but worked hard with Cody (Pg. 99) "he stayed there 2 weeks...indifference to the drums of his destiny" He worked hard when he had a purpose. Driven by desire! (like with Daisy) Dan Cody: -Predicts Gatsby's future: Transcended early hardship to become a millionaire, Very generous to friends and peers (Pg. 99) like Gatsby's parties. Cody takes to drinking, but Gatsby doesn't want to follow that path. IRONIC that they both recieve the both fate anyway. Cody dies partly through treachery of a woman he loves, as Gatsby does. Daisy: -Narrow minded like her husband (Pg. 107) "she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand" -Gatsby loves this aura of wealth, but that is exactly why she'll never leave him. Her love for him pales in comparison to her love of her privileged life. Sloanes and Tom: -Epitome of old money, elitist. -Treat Gatsby with contempt because he's not long-standing upper class. -Tom mocks him (Pg. 103) "by God, I believe the man's coming. Doesn't he know she doesn't want him?" -IRONIC that the first Americans tried to escape European nobility, and Tom is recreating it.

THEMES -Money doesn't mean happiness: Cody and his abrupt death, Tom and Daisy's relationship, Gatsby's constant desire for Daisy despite all he's accomplished. always wanting more... -The American Dream: Defined differently. Gatsby believes it to be overcoming misfortune and achieving new dreams, while still living in the past and having those desires (pg. 110). To Tom, the Sloanes, and even Daisy, everyone has their place and accepts that = American Dream.