Vocabulary #8

abase: to lower; to put or bring down; degrade
abdicate:  to give up a throne, right, power, claim, or responsibility
abomination:  anything greatly disliked; detestation
brusque: abrupt in manner; rough
saboteur: a person who commits or practices sabotage
debauchery: excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance
proliferate: to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively
anachronism: someone or something that is not in it's correct historical or chronological time
nomenclature:  a set or system of names or terms by an individual or community; the names or terms comprising a set or system
expurgate: to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness; to amend by removing words deemed offensive
bellicose:  inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
gauche:  lacking social grace; awkward; crude; tactless
rapacious:  inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate
paradox: a self-contradictory and false proposition
conundrum:  anything that puzzles; a riddle whose answer involves a pun or play on words
anomaly:  someone or something that is abnormal or does not fit in; peculiarity; abnormality; exception
ephemeral: lasting a short time; short-lived
rancorous: full of or showing rancor (hatred)
churlish: boorish; rude; mean
precipitous: extremely steep

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

(From Hamlet Act III Scene i)

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

Quotes.....

DEAR OPHELIA

I understand your situation. It seems your pulled in the middle of a sticky situation of choosing between family and a Man that may or may not love you. Here is my advice to you, if you truly love him, tell him how you feel about him and if he feels the same way, I would go for it. Family is important, but if your family doesn't see your happiness as a priority and their prejudice is blinding them, then they don't deserve you. But if he doesn't love you, then move on, fall in love with a proper suitor that can give you the love and affection you deserve. Don't wait around for him to realize how great you are, because in the process you'll be miserable and your family will be right..

LITERATURE ANALYSIS #2

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Nick who happens to move into a house right next to a large Gothic mansion whose owner is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who throws big extravagant parties hoping that his one true love will attend to one of his parties whom happened to be Nick's cousin Daisy. Gatsby becomes friends with Nick not knowing his cousin is Daisy. Daisy's husband, Tom, cheats on Daisy with Myrtle who is a mechanics wife on the outside of town. When Gatsby found out that Daisy is Nick's cousin at one of Gatsby's parties, Gatsby tries to get Nick to arrange a meet between the two and at first Nick is against it but then he gives in and Daisy and Gatsby begin their affair until Daisy, Tom, Nick, Gatsby, and Daisy's friend Jordan goes into New York City where they go to the Plaza hotel where Tom confronts Gatsby on his bootlegging alcohol, then sends Daisy back home in with Gatsby proving that he cant hurt him. when Tom, Nick, and Jordan, go passed Myrtles house, there is ambulances outside, where Tom found out that Gatsby ran and killed Myrtle over, but really its Daisy who ran her over. Gatsby wants to take the blame for it and Myrtles husband finds out by Tom telling him who did it. Her husband kills Gatsby and Tom throws a small funeral, where only his father showed up to and Daisy and Tom moved away together.
The author did a great job with the novel, in my opinion its easy to interpret and its a good book to read. its my favorite English book that I had to read for school.
2. The theme of the novel is Greed on Daisy's part because that's all she wanted was money, Justice, when Myrtle's husband killed Gatsby when he thought he killed Myrtle, Power, Gatsby and Tom, Gatsby in bootlegging and Tom having the ability to get whatever he wants, Betrayal when Daisy chose Tom over Gatsby, even though Tom was cheating on her and Gatsby offered her the world, and the American Dream in the 1920's. the lifestyle Gatsby had was the dream in America at the time.
3. the tone of the novel is loneliness and isolated. There is Gatsby who is rich and handsome but has no one. "A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell."  and then there is Nick who is sweet and is just looking for love and to be successful. "..when the dark lanes of the forties were five deep with throbbing taxicabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart...Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well." but the two together seem to be a little less lonely because they relate together and they found a reliable friend; companion.
4. The author uses a lot of flashback in the story to help the readers understand Gatsby's background and experience more. Dramatic Irony when everyone knew of  Gatsby and Dais's affair but Tom.  Situation Irony when the author has Daisy stays with Tom at the end of the novel. Symbolism, when Gatsby uses his cars, talks about Daisy's voice, uses colors, seasons, and locations. Aphorism, in the beginning of the book when Nick's father tells him “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you've had." Simile, “Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans” or ” In his blue garden men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” Metaphor, Daisy describes nick as a rose, “You remind me of a- of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?”  Allusion, the popular names and refrences the author uses to name characters.

CHARACTERIZATION

1. Indirect: Gatsby; "He smiled understandingly--picking his words with care." (pg 48),  about Gatsby; "There's the kind of man you'd like to take home and introduce to your mother and sister." (pg. 72)

Direct:

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I WILL FINISH WHEN MY INTERNET CONNECTION GETS FIXED. SORRY FOR INCONVENIENCE 

CHARACTER III

Getting annoyed at Haley as she's screaming Justin Beiber song the whole car ride so far, Micheala says she needs to go get gas. thinking to herself, thank god, because she is hungry and wants to get out of that car and not have to listen to Haley's awful singing and her creepy obsession with Justin Beiber. They get to the gas station and go in to get food and as their walking out, Patty Mae, food in mouth chokes and spits out the chips when Haley is getting shoved into a black SUV screaming at the top of her lungs. The group quickly gets in the car and tries so desperately to catch up to the SUV but it was no use the car got away, leaving them in the dust, and lost in the middle of nowhere.