Literature May Be Funny (comic weekly update)

NICK MEETS GATSBY: (GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER 1)

Hi, my name is nick. Nice to meet you...

Oh, hello ehhh...Gatsby. Would you like to come to my party and then to ride in my boat; even if I just met you, I want to show a good appearance.





Uhh... okay, can I also make you to me take for lunch,
 let me drink from your wine and champagne and make lots
of fun thing on your expense?        

!                                                       

Of course I have so much money, 

that I can use it as toilet paper!!

So it's decided lets go and  burn some money, have a food fight with caviar and party with strangers that don't even like us!!!

Okay, but first, have this roofie...

                  

                             

What?!?

Lesson: if a rich man who you don't know offers you free stuff... accept it bu DO NOT take any drinks, food, injections or pills he gives you.                                                                     

Final Paragraph Close Reading

When our English teacher that we were supposed to make a close reading on one paragraph of the Great Gatsby, I though that it would be a piece of cake. I WAS WRONG!!! The paragraph was so deep and at the same time, simple, that was stunted by the complexity of my task.

The paragraph I decided to analyse was the final paragraph of the novel. During Gatsby's funeral when Nick's final thoughts are printed into paper, ending the story with a powerful message (note, the guy smiling is Tom in disguise). The quote goes as following:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Analysis:

This extract says more than it seems to, believe me I tried to simplify, but it is rich in imagery and symbolism. It basically says the following, it says that no matter how much we fight against the current (in this context could be either death or society) we will always get to our ends which will be to be forgotten on lost in history ("the past"). This line also a valuable resource in order to convey a strong message in the end of the novel; we will not live forever, so we must enjoy life while we can, while taking care of our spiritual life and moral values in order to die being remembered as good men and in that way last throughout history. NOT REACHING AND END, BUT AN EVERLASTING MEMORY.

Kind of depressing huh? Anyway, that's my analysis.

* In order to get out from the depression I've induced you watch the following vid...

 Bye. XD

 

Close Reading on the GG!!!

Today's lesson was all about correcting sentences and close reading (analyzing in deep) of certain extracts of the Great Gatsby, by the immortal writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anyway, as you already had figured out, correcting is way less fun than a good analysis; so I'm writing my close reading instead of the corrections.

The extract I have chosen to analyse, is located in the novel just some time after Daisy's driving skills have been tested in a game I like to call "Dodge the Pedestrians" and has miserably failed on level 2 were she was supposed to let Myrtle live and run over her by accident like a lame Grand Theft Auto player. (For those who don't know, Myrtle is Daisy's husband's lover; a kind of "suspicious" accident ins't it.) Here is a dramatization on the events...  

Note: if you look close enough you can see Daisy's "oops face"

Well then, the cite is the following:

"She was the first "nice" girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between."

Analysis: The writer uses the readers prior knowledge in order to make a connection between G's (Gatsby's) past and the actual situation. In this particular occasion he nick says "the first 'nice' girl he had ever known" referring to G and Daisy's encounter when G was on the army. this extract also suggests that Daisy was G's first link to refined society and also indicates that he only feels comfortable with her as the narrator says that "... he had come in contact with such people, but always with an indiscernible barbed wire between them. Finally, as Gatsby considers Daisy as "the first nice girl..." it may imply that he would take the blame for her as he is clearly in love with her.

Hope I haven't make you sleepy, but contrarily I expect you have enjoyed my analysis.