Green light, yellow cars, and church steeples

In The Great Gatsby there are several symbols that may go unnoticed. The valley of ashes is an area that Tom and Nick have to go through to get to George and Myrtle Wilson's home. This is a symbol that represents and indirectly tell the reader that the Wilson's aren't very wealthy because this is the part of town that the working class stay in. It's impoverished and hopeless. This is also where we see the eyes of Dr. Eckleburg which symbolize the loss of spiritual values in America. Another symbol, Gatsby's extra extravagant parties that he throws just to gain Daisy's attention. Much like the yellow Rolls Royce he has, symbolizing his desire for Daisy to want him because of all the nice things he has, knowing that she's extremely materialistic. One of his guests who's nicknamed "Owl Eyes" is drooling at Gatsby's collection of books. All of his books represent how hard he's trying to impress people and keep up this lie of a life and cover all of his tracks. These books are all real but they're uncut which means Gatsby has not read them and just has them for decoration. He is in love with Daisy whom has a green light at the end of her boat dock, another symbol. The green light represents Gatsby's dream that he has for him and Daisy to be happily together again.

Janie

Janie was raised by her grandmother after both of her parents left. Her grandmother raised her on values that wealth and position is more important than love. Janie and her grandmother live in a coach house while Janie is growing up, she is surrounded by white people and thinks of herself as white until she sees a picture of herself and discovers that she has dark skin. Her grandmother, whom she calls "Nanny", was born into slavery and was raped by the plantation owner. When she had the baby, Leafy, the wife of the master noticed that it had light skin, light hair and gray eyes and knew that the woman had been with her husband. In fear that the wife would have her beaten, Nanny ran away with Leafy and when trying to let Leafy have a better life, Leafy is raped by her teacher. These unfortunate events are why Nanny wants Janie to have a good life and husband so badly, she wants to break the chain but Janie fails to realize her grandmother's intentions. Janie's first husband, Logan, is a wealthy man with respect and treats her very well in the beginning of the marriage but when he starts demanding her to work and sees somebody better, she leaves. She never loved him. She runs off with a man she calls Jody, to Eatonville, Florida where he becomes mayor of the small town and does a lot more to make it more of a town. He was a terrible husband to her, he gave her no type of freedom and demanded her to keep her hair tied up. Later in the marriage, he became abusive and Janie realized that she was mostly his wife for the image it gave him. After they had been married for about twenty years, Jody is dying from kidney failure and while Janie is trying to talk to him, he dies. Happy on the inside, Jody has to fake a sorrowful face but six months later, she is putting herself back out there. Phoeby tells her that the townspeople will talk about her and Janie says she doesn't care. Janie is working in the store while almost everyone in the town is at a baseball game when a man named Vergible Woods walks in, they flirt and play checkers. He's half her age but Janie is starting to like him because she feels as though he actually respects her. This is the first man that she is not rushing into things with and probably will actually love. One day he asks her how she feels about him and she tells him that she just likes him as a very good friend but Vergible, a.k.a. Tea Cake wants more. Logan was Janie's first look at what loving a man is really like but it was so rushed that they never had a real relationship. Janie knows that she is still very beautiful and she is a confident woman.

Thankful for a Classmate

Someone I am thankful for in this classroom is Camryn. Even though her text back game is extremely weak and it takes her two weeks to reply (if I want a reply to my "Merry Christmas" message on the 25th, I should probably text her today). Camryn never fails to give me a laugh; she's a hilarious girl! I'm thankful to her for helping me out of bad moods that the morning can bring.
Also, shoutout to Adam and Quincy. Even though I read, (I promise I actually read every time we were told to) they were always there to help me more thoroughly understand the book with all the questions they answered in class. For that I'm grateful because that's extremely helpful to me.

A principle we should keep

A principle we should keep no matter the situation or circumstances is that the safety of women and children comes before a man's. In today's society, there are certain guidelines that a man has to follow to be a gentleman. Some examples are that if a man and woman are walking down the sidewalk, the man should be on the outside, men are supposed to hold the door for women, open the door of the car and many other actions. Also, a man should always be the strong one and be the protector of his family. If the world were to come to an end, a lot of the gentleman guidelines would be lost like opening the car door. However, a couple that should always be there are that the man should put his safety last and the man should be the protector of his family.

Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a very interesting man who lived and extremely interesting life. Born in Cicero(now called Oak Park), Illinois, July 21, 1899. He was the second child of six to his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest's mother liked to dress him up as a girl and call him Ernestine, some would like to believe that this is why he acted like such a manly man later on. Some of Ernest's first works of writing were when he worked for the school newspaper in high school. He became such an accomplished author that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Ernest wrote 10 novels, 10 short story collection and 5 non fiction works. He had a total of 4 wives and only one of them ended things with him instead of the other way around. He cheated on just about all of them and one of lost all of his writing and the carbons at the train station one day. He took a very strong interest in bullfighting when visiting Spain and a lot of his writings, specifically the ones starring Nick Adams, were based on things that happened in his real life. He was in 2 plane crashes but survived and ended up taking his own life by gunshot on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.

six- six word stories

The wind blew towards the South.

The girl was shot and killed.

My son fell off his bike.

Attention: No smoking at gas station.

My mom is in the hospital.

She's not going to make it.

John Proctor...Hero or Stooge?

Some would say hero...some would say stooge, but me, I would say he's a little bit of both. At times, I was convinced that John was never going to tell the court the truth, that he would keep putting it off. He obviously did care about his wife, Elizabeth, but would that be enough? To put his life and Abagail's at risk? When Elizabeth first asked him to go and tell the truth, he was extremely hesitant, saying that he would think on it. My reasoning for saying stooge is because he waited until the last minute and was obviously under pressure. He tells it all out at once and tells it all, this making him seem a hero. He does seem to try to blame it all on Abagail though when what they did was not forced. Proctor would have seemed more of a hero if he told the truth from the beginning, but he didn't.