THE GREAT GATSBY ESSAY!

The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is told by Nick Caraway, he is in love with Jordan Baker. Jordan’s sister, Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan, although Daisy is really in love with Jay Gatsby. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, but Myrtle is married to George Wilson. The Great Gatsby is portrayed as the American dream in the beginning but once you get into it, suddenly it does not seem so perfect. There are affairs left and right, Gatsby seems like this perfect person, he is always throwing huge parties that people go to from all over. Tom is an alcoholic and abuses his mistress, Myrtle, and Daisy married the wrong person, and she loves someone else now. The Great Gatsby is not the American dream.


Gatsby is the perfect person in the book, he is someone everyone wants to be and know. He is always throwing elaborate parties and everyone goes to them weather they were invited or not. Gatsby portrays the American dream in the beginning of the book, everyone wants to be friends with him and go to his parties. The ironic thing is though when Gatsby dies no body went to his funeral, not even Daisy who said she was in love with him. The only people who went to his funeral were Nick, Mr. Gatz who is Gatsby's dad, and old owl eyes. For someone who had parties all the time, that’s not very many people who really and truly cared about him. I would have at least expected Daisy and Tom to be there.


Gatsby starts out as the ideal American, rich, famous person. But as you get into the book you start to unravel the story, Gatsby is lying about everything, his name, his background, even his family. There are rumors left and right about him. He says he graduated from Oxford, well that’s a lie. He dropped out after a month. When he was 18 he legally changed his name to Jay Gatsby, his original name was Jimmy Gatz. Another rumor was that his family was a rich, wealthy family from Germany. But really they were just from some state in the mid east, they owned a farm and Gatsby was ashamed of that life. He made up a whole other identity so that he could win back Daisy.


Gatsby and Daisy knew each other from back before Daisy and Tom got married. They loved each other but Gatsby went away to war so they broke up. When Daisy saw Gatsby again she claimed to fall madly in love with him once again, however this new Gatsby is rich and popular so I think she was in it just for the money and fame. Daisy claims to have married the wrong man, Tom. When she meets Gatsby again she falls in love with him and starts to have an affair with him. Tom finds out about the affair and soon Gatsby and Tom are competing for Daisy's love. All of these intertwined affairs are all confusing and get locked up in the big picture of the American dream. None of these relations ships are perfect and can represent the American dream, almost all of them have something going on beneath the picture perfect people.


Shortly into the book there is a dinner party that Nick, Myrtle, Tom, Catherine, and Mr. MeKee all go to. It starts out as the ideal dinner party that anyone would want to go to. They are having fun, drinking, laughing, and talking. But some are drinking too much. Tom and Myrtle start drinking too much and start to fight, until Tom slaps Myrtle across the face and breaks her nose. So what started as a perfect party does not end up well and is not like the American dream at all.


The Great Gatsby starts out as a book where all the characters are perfect and they have money and lots of friends, but once you really get into the book and discover the truth about the people in the book then you discover that none of them are good examples for the American dream. Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle. Daisy cheats on Tom with Gatsby. Myrtle cheats on George with Tom. Gatsby Lies to everyone about his life. Nick and Jordan are the only sane ones and somewhat represent the American dream. The Great Gatsby and the characters in it do not represent the American dream at all.

BLOG 24!

1. "The state has funded the program since 1999.Thousands of people visit San Diego beaches each year.The ocean testing helps alert swimmers when it's not safe to swim."This is a small excerpt from "state resumes paying for beach water testing in San Diego county". You can read the entire article at http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/10/state-resumes-paying-beach-water-testing-san-diego/.
2. this article is summarizing the entire battle for the children's pool, it gives information about the beach, and what would need to be done before children could return to it. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/02/17/opinion/01foster021709.txt
3. Seals Get To Stay At La Jolla Children's Pool... For Nownews link: http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10778651Summary: Many court arguments have been mostly about people wanting to get rid of the seals and others who are in favor of the seals. They want them to be there in their natural habbitat. The city planned to scare off two hundred seals using recorded dog barks. Arnold Schwarzenneger signed a bill permitting the cove to be used as a marine mammal park.
4. this artical gives some very good piont on why to keep the seals there, it also explains some of the rules that are set in place at childrens pool, it also gives some back ground information that i did not know yet. http://www.amwest-travel.com/awt_sdseal.html. "At the la jolla childrens pool, wild seals congregate without fear of human harassment. People are allowed to mingle freely on this beach as long as they don't bother the seals."
5. http://www.10news.com/news/21606828/detail.html it is just a very recent artical about the recent ruling that the seals have won and will be allowed to stay. "A colony of harbor seals that took over a beach in La Jolla that had been willed to children will be allowed to stay, a judge ruled Friday, possibly bringing an end to the prolonged legal tug-of-war over the cove."

BLOG 23! current artical.

1. this article is summarizing the entire battle for the children's pool, it gives information about the beach, and what would need to be done before children could return to it.
2. "The joint-use plan that the City Council fashioned involved harmonious beaching on the tiny strip of sand. Barriers would be put up down the middle of the beach, and theoretically, into the water, to separate the seals from the swimmers. The beach would also undergo an immense cleanup process, in order to remove the toxic excrement left by the seals."this is giving a good compromise that would satisfy both sides of the argument.
3. there is no information that supports the seals side of the argument. the author clearly will vote in favor of the children.
4. it give my counter arguments for the seals to stay. i am fully supporting the seals and needed to find some evidence that supports the opposite side, the children.

BLOG 22! part 2

1. la jolla friends of the seals
2. 1. To preserve the La Jolla Harbor Seal Colony for ecological, educational, scientific, historic and scenic opportunities.
   2. To create and administer volunteer docent programs which will provide environmental education for the public and promote safe viewing of harbor seals and other marine life along the Southern Coast of California.
3. 3a: there is 1 specific event that caught my eye, it is called Seal-a-Bration, where the entire community of San Diego comes together on mothers day to name the new seal pups and to write letters to the city council explaining why the seals should stay, there is many activities for the young kids to do and get involved with the seals.
   3c: the la jolla friends of the seals is very involved with the seals pool. they emailed a chain letter to everyone and told it to forward it to thier friends, it gave every sigle coucil members contact info so that they could send letters and call them.

BLOG 22! part 1

1. San Diego Chapter of The National Audubon Society
2. Fostering the protection of birds and other wildlife through education and study. Advocating for a cleaner, healthier environment
3. 3a: there are tons of ways that this site is getting involved with the comunity. there are skegweled field trips, they can send speakers to comunity meetings, they are a member of together green, and tons more.
   3b: San Diego Audubon Society is the proud recipient of a $20,000 TogetherGreen grant to promote wildlife-friendly landscapes in the eastern Chula Vista community of Eastlake. SDAS will be collaborating with the City of Chula Vista and the National Wildlife Federation to carry out a NatureScape workshop series and to install a demonstration habitat garden. See our project profile and press release.

BLOG 21!

Gatsby seems kind of crazy at some points but also at the same time he is the ideal neighbor, he keeps his house in perfect shape and has awesome party's, which we are ALL invited too. yet nick is holding back from us(the readers) he does not always tell us everything. he and Gatsby are similar because both of them are interesting and add to the story in their own ways. nick is narrating everything and we always get his opinion on everything but Gatsby is hidden from us and we don't know very much about him.

BLOG 20!

1. the narrator is kind of in the story, like he is one of the characters. "only gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction" its like he is talking with us, the readers.
2. he accomplishes more, he can become a character or he can just be the one reading the book to us.