*Chapter 6*

Someone finally confronts Gatsby about all the rumors that are around the Eggs. Dan Cody dies in this chapter and leaves a great deal of money to Gatsby, 25,000 dollars. In the end of this chapter, Gatsby wishes that the past wouldn't have changed, and he wants Daisy to be with him and get a divorce.

*Chapter 5*

In the begining of the chapter, Nick is afraid that Gatsby's house is on fire. This is about the time that Gatsby asks Nick if he wants to go to Coney Island, Nick comments that it is too late. There is a reason why Gatsby is trying to get Nick alone with him. I think its because Nick is kinda like the bait for Gatsby to bring Daisy in.

*Chapter 4*

Gatsby and Nick are talking and about Gatsby himself, and Gatsby showed Nick the medal from Montenegro and the picture of him playing cricket at Oxford. Then Gatsby got in his car and sped to NYC, but on the way, a cop pulls him over for speeding. Gatsby showed the cop a white card that he had, and the cop apologized and sent Gatsby on his way. Nick got to meet a man that claims he was the reason of the fix at the world series, Meyer Wolfshiem. Also, this is where Nick met Jordan Baker, a famous golfer who is caught for cheating.

*Chapter 3*

In this chapter, it talks about all of Gatsby's extravagent parties. Where the liquor flows freely, there is a orchestra under the stairs, a pool, food everywhere. No one is invited to these parties, they just expected to come and go as they please. They are the parties for the wealthy though. The reason why Gatsby throws these parties, is because he sometime expects Daisy to show up at at least one of them. The parties last for a very long time, and during them, Gatsby doesn't go down and talk to any of his guests, he just stands up looking for one person in particular, Daisy. Around 2:00, that is about when the parties end due to the arguments of the wives and husbands.

*Chapter 2*

This is where they start to describe the land between the West Egg and New York City. This piece of land is know as the Valley of Ashes. Above the Valley of Ashes, there is a pair of eyes looking down on it. They are said to be the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg. Nick and Tom ride the train into New York City from the Valley of Ashes. They go to the apartment that Tom has set aside for his affairs with Wilson's wife. Later on, back at the Christmas party, Tom gives Myrtle a puppy for her present. After Myrtle gets some alcohol in her system, she becomes louder and more annoying. She all the sudden starts chanting Daisy, Daisy, Daisy, over and over again. Tom had enough and broke her nose by punching her in the face.

*Chapter 1*

In Chapter 1, it is mainly a flashback of Nick's remembrance. Nick is the narrator as well as the main character in this book. He is a young man still. Maybe in his 20 or 30's. It introduces the other characters in this chapter; such as, Myrtl, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan. It tells how they all know each other. Gatsby knows Daisy because he had fallen in love with her before he went off to war.

The Great Gatsby

- His work reflects his relationships with his wife Zelda.
- His characters epitomize the Jazz Age.
- Great Gatsby is about man's obsession with money, power, knowledge, and hope.
- In the book Tender is the Night, Nicole Driver was bodled after Zelda.
- Him and his wife traveled all over the world.
- Zelda had a nervous breakdown and was in and out of therapy in Switzerland.
- Zelda moved back to Montgomery with her mom in 1940 because of all her heath problems and the same year, Fitzgerald had a heart-attack. A month later he died of a second heart-attack.

- I think the quote means that you should write of the younger generation because that is who will be wanting to read your books first, then write about what the critics like, then anything after that.

- Scope Monkey Trials
- First Radio broadcast
- 19th ammendment
- Jazz Age
- Roaring 20's

In order for Henry to find out what his purpose in the war was, he had to run away.

• In the end, the comment made by the lieutenant. The words that the lieutenant said were ‘"By heavens, if I had ten thousand wild cats like you I could tear th' stomach outa this war in less'n a week!"’ (Crane 17.20). The meaning of this quote is; if i had ten thousand men like you, this war would be won in less than a week. That means that the lieutenant appreciates what Henry has done for him and his country. Henry feels a lot better about himself now. He how believes that he has the ability to do anything he sets his mind to. That is a lesson in life that everyone will learn. One man can make a difference. To a Lieutenant, to show that you want to fight for your life, can mean the difference to him. It could cause you to move up in rank also.

• The comment made by the tattered soldier. The comment was ‘"Where yeh hit, ol' boy?"’ (Crane 8.40). When Henry is asked this by the tattered soldier, he is just shocked. Not so much that he is shocked by him asking the question, but because he had been talking to this man the whole time, not thinking about him being injured. Henry just thought of himself as a coward the whole time. He didn't realize until the end that he could do anything he wanted to. When him and Wilson went over and captured the flag from the enemy, that took a lot of courage also. he found it in himself to take control of that. He also realized the amount of respect he gained from not running away. He also realized that he didn't need to recieve the Red Badge of Courage to be noticed as a man who was magnificent in the war.

• Henry’s connection to the squirrel. Henry sees a squirrel and throws a pinecone at it. ‘“He threw a pine cone at a jovial squirrel, and he ran with chattering fear.”’ (Crane 7.14). Right then and there, when the squirrel runs away, that was just like what Henry was doing. Henry was the squirrel getting a pine cone thrown at him. He was not the only squirrel in the woods running away from all the pine cones being thrown at him though. He figured out though that it does more good than harm to fight without fear. Everyone runs away from something in life, just like the squirrel. You find out what you need to do, and it's not the same for everyone.

*Saving Private Ryan*

Motifs
Light and Dark- The difference between the right and wrong thing to do. For example, when they are at the sand bunker and Wade dies, they don't kill the remaining German. They let him walk at the end.
Noise and Silence- A French woman is singing when they are at the bridge, well they are listening to a record, but as soon as the Germans come, the song stops playing.
Clean and Dirty- When the first man dies in their regiment (the soldier with the little girl who reminds him of his niece), he has a letter that Wade takes out of his hand. By this time, the letter is all bloody, so Wade decides to rewrite it when they have a 3 hour break in the church. Youth and Maturity- The corperal represents youth in the begining because he is only a translator and by the end of the movie, he shoots someone.

Symbols
Flag- the flag represents what they are fighting for.
Dead Soldier- Wade is the dead soldier. Miller made a comment about if you kill one, you save 10 or 20 times as many.
Miller's Hand- I think that his hand, when it was shaking, represented that he still had a mission to take care of. That mission was to find Private Ryan. Then, when he is shot at the end, his hand stops shaking. He had done what he was put on the earth to do. To be a hero.

Theme
Courage- It takes a lot of courage for the soldiers to risk their lives to save one soldier. This all goes back to the kill one, save 10 or 20 times as many.
Manhood- The corperal reaches his manhood at the end of the movie when he finally kills the German soldier that killed another soldier in his regiment.
Self-Preservation- They were doing anything they could to keep themselves alive, like killing other soldiers.
Disregard for human life- Well in order for them to stay alive, they had to kill others. They didn't realize that they were killing others who were also going through self-preservation.

Themes, Motifs, and Symbols

These are the key concepts you need to pay attention to while reading The Red Badge of Courage. I will expect to see references to these concepts, along with examples, in your response blogs.

Themes: an idea that recurs in or pervades a work

Courage- This is when, at the end, he is fighting for his life, and he is able to fight to his best ability. It took courage for him to not run away from the fighting. Instead, he became of the best fighters in his regiment and got a noticed by his Lieutenant.

Manhood- He became a man toward the end of the book when he was no longer referred to as "the youth".

Self-preservation- He kills a lot of men so that he himself will not die. Also in the begining he ran away because he didn't want to die.

Disregard for Human Life- To keep himself alive, all he needed to do was kill all the others that were trying to kill him, he didn't even realize that they were also humans who had lives back home.

Motifs: distinctive feature or dominant idea

Noise and Silence- I think that the noise represents the war, and i think that Silence represents peace.

Light and Dark- I think that the light in to book, for example at the end when there is a ray of sunlight, represents the peace and i think that the dark represents the war.

Clean and Dirty- I think that clean represents his fears and i think that dirty represents his will power to fight.

Youth and Maturity- Youth is Henry at the begining of the book and Maturity is him at the end. I think it also represents the difference in courage.

Symbols: objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas

The Dead Soldier- Represents just how important your life is, and if you don't take care of it properly then it will just rot away.

The Flag- This represents power. When Wilson took the flag, it meant that we had the power over the opponents.

Characters for your list:

Henry Fleming- He is referred to as "the youth" in this book. "The youth" represents the inexperience of the soldiers.

Jim Conklin- The tall soldier. He dies right in front of Henry during a battle.

Wilson- He is Henry's best friend in the book. He thinks that he is going to die, so he gives Henry a letter to give to his parents just in case.

Tattered soldier- He is the one that made Henry feel guilty because he didn't have any injuries yet. He kind of change Henry in a way because Henry didn't feel as if he had done anything important in this war.

Lieutenant- He is the leader of Henry's regiment and he makes a comment about Henry's fighting toward the end. He says that if he had 10,000 more soldiers like Henry, then they would win this war in a week easy.

Henry's Mother- She was kind of Henry's conscience in the book. She helped him make major and minor decisions.

*Chapter 24*

The war is finally over and they are back where they started. Henry starts to remember everything that went on in the war. He looks back on the coward he had been in the begining of the war and how much he had changed till the end of the war. While Henry is sitting on the ground in the rain, the rain stops and there is a ray of sunshine. I think that the sunshine is a symbol of a bright new begining, and that he should remember how he changed from a coward to a brave young man. I also think that this means that he is no longer thought of as "the youth".

*Chapter 23*

They charge at the enemy with all their might, and then Henry sees that the enemy's flag barrer has been killed. Henry and Wilson decide to take their flag for a sign of accomplisment. They spend the night talking about all they had done. While they are in battle, they take 4 prisoners of war.

*Chapter 22*

Henry is witnessing another battle going on between two other regiments. He can see hundreds of soldiers running around. The enemy is now getting dangerously close. Henry is able to see their faces. He is willing to keep on fighting till the death.

*Chapter 21*

The men are estatic about the job that they had done today. They think that they are absolutely unstoppable, and they are just so proud of that. Then a commander said that if they would have gone another 100 yards, then they would have been sucessfull. This had crushed the soldiers egos because they thought that they had done so good.

*Chapter 20*

Henry and Wilson are fighting over who is going to carry the flag. It ends up that Henry is going to be the mule driver. There is a lot of smoke and gunfire, and when the smoke clears, they see that there is nothing but dead soldiers laying on the ground opposite of them. Then they see that they have once again driven off the enemy and they had one that battle.

*Chapter 19*

All the men are shocked going into this battle because they are seeing the men on both sides of them getting shot and falling dead. Finally, instead of just standing there, Henry fires a shot and the rest of the men realize that they are supposed to be doing the same, and they start firing as well.

*Chapter 18*

Henry finds another soldier whose name is Jimmie Rogers. He is wounded and he needs some water to clean it out. Henry is trying to find him some but is unsucessfull and cannot. The enemy is getting ready to attack again. Going into this next battle, Wilson and Henry are both very confident that they are going to be coming out alive.

*Chapter 17*

Henry finally does what he thinks he is put in this battle to do. During this battle, he is fighting like no other, and he gets the recignition from a luitenent. He starts to think of himself as a hero. He is also told that if there were 10,000 more men like him, the whole war would be won in a week. They think that the are the best regiment to ever live.

*Chapter 16*

All the men are starting to question their generals' decisions. They are moved into a trench where they will stay until the enemy gets closer. They are going to attack the enemy at the right time. They think that it's crazy to be leading themselves into the battle instead of holding off in the forest where they have been the whole time.

*Chapter 15*

In this chapter, Henry realizes that he still has the letter that Wilson had given to him just in case he died. Wilson asks for that back, but Henry had read the letter himself and it talked about how scared he was of the battles.

*Chapter 14*

Wilson completely transforms from the loud soldier to a more quiet soldier. While Wilson and Henry are talking, Wilson tells him that he hasn't been feeling the greatest, and then Henry tells Wilson about the death of Jim. Also, Wilson tells Henry that their regiment had "lost" over half of their men. When they say lost, they really didn't lose them to death, but they lost them in the woods where they are all hiding out because they ran away from war like Henry did himself.

*Chapter 13*

Henry and Wilson are talking, and Henry tells Wilson that he was shot in the head during battle. Wilson tells the commander that he was shot in the head and that he needs medical treatment right away. The commander said that he wasn't really shot that it was just a graze, and so Wilson wraps his head up and then puts him to sleep.

*Chapter 12*

Henry is hit in the head by a soldier he was trying to ask a question to. The question was; why is everyone acting so crazy? Henry starts to walk, but it is a struggle. He doesn't know if he should stop or keep going. Another soldier asks if he needs a hand and Henry says sure. The soldier takes him back to his regiment but he quickly turns around and leaves. Henry didn't get to see his face or get his name.

*Chapter 11*

The noise from the battle is growing louder. He starts blamming himself for the death of the other soldiers because he was to much of a coward to go into the battles. He was going to go fight, but he didn't have an injury so he decides not to because then the other soldiers would know that he didn't go into battle any other time and just ran away.

*Chapter 10*

Jim's dead. Henry decides to just leave Jim in peace where he died. Henry is thinking that he is going to be witnessing another death, the tattered man. the tattered man is begining to act like Jim before he died. His speach begins to slur he is losing thought of what he has said.

*Chapter 9*

Henry is becoming very suspicious about what other people are thinking about him. The reason he even thought about thinking about what other people are thinking of him, is because he is still worried about what the tattered man asked him about. Henry thinks that the other soldiers are looking down on him because he is not yet injured. At this point, he is really wanting his badge.

*Chapter 8*

Henry is still questioning his courage because he has not recieved his red badge of courage yet. Toward the end of the chapter, Henry is walking. He ends up at the hospital where they are taking all of the injured soldiers. There he realizes that he meets someone he has already run into; the tattered man. They talk for a while until the tattered man asks Henry where he is injured at, then Henry gets up and walks away.

*Chapter 7*

Henry is afraid of what his regiment thinks because he believes that they will think he is back to being afraid of war. Henry has betrayal in his mind because of the soldiers didn't flee with them.

*Chapter 6*

This chapter is mainly about Henry running away. He runs away because he sees everyone else running away. He was proud of himself for fighting without his fears.

Question: If he was so proud of himself for his fighting... why'd he run?

*Chapter 5*

The captain gets killed in this chapter. The reason the captain gets killed is because the soldiers don't listen to him. He is telling them to follow his command and not fire. All of the soldiers are just so egar to shoot the enemy, but they weren't close enough. The rage was taking over everyone.

*Quiz #2*

Henry is referred to as "the youth" and Wilson is referred to as "the loud private." How has each character changed from the beginning of the story to now, specifically in regards to these monikers? Use specific examples from the story to support your answer.

* The reason why they refer to Henry as "the youth" is because he is an unexperienced soldier. In this story, he represents all of the unexperienced soldiers that go into battle. For example, when he threw that pine cone at the squirrel, and then the squirrel ran away. That's the same as Henry did. That is the sign of an unexperienced soldier/"the youth". Another reason he would be called "the youth" is because of his age. He is only 17 or 18 years old. That is when most of the soldiers started enlisting.
I think they call Wilson "the loud private" because he is very pushy and he gives a lot of orders. The only thing wrong with him giving orders is that he doesn't have the rank that allows him to do that.

*Chapter 4*

In this chapter, Henry and his men were in a forest. They hear gunshots and they realized that they were coming toward them. This is a very short chapter. A lot of people were getting shot, and there were also a lot more characters introduced.

*Chapter 3*

The men are still marching, the only reason they would stop would be because they needed to eat. The men are lead into battle because they hear gunshots going off in the distance. Henry is starting to feel nervous. This is an act of inexperience because when you are a veteran, you know what is coming and you know how to handle many situations better than the rookies. Henry comes across the dead soldier again and wonders if that is going to be him soon. Wilson has a gut feeling that he is going to die, so he gives Henry a letter to give to his parents.

Question: Why does Wilson give Henry the letter to give to his parents?

*Quiz #1*

Post your answer to the following question in the most current location on your blog. Be complete. You may use your notes (obviously).

1. What does the title of this book mean? Be specific in your response, noting Henry's comments.
* The red badge is when you have a wound from being in the war. The courage part comes from being courageous in the battle.

2. What is the importance of the tattered man? What does he represent?

* The tattered man represents the things that Henry lacks. He keeps repeating a question to Henry. Then Henry feels quilty.

3. What role does Henry's mother play while he is away from her?

* She is kind of a conscience inside his head. She is helping him make decisions based on what she would have told him back at home.

4. How does Henry use the squirrel to justify his actions?
* Because if something that doesn't seem safe of scary comes at him, he always just wants to run away. For example, the tattered man. He came to Henry trying to get some help, but Henry turns around and runs away.

*Chapter 2*

The boys figure out that the rumor was just as most of them though, just a rumor; they are moving. The tall soldier thinks that all of the other soldiers are hiding their emotions. He thinks they are just as scared and intimidated by war just as bad as he is. A fat man stole a little girls horse, then the little girl stopped him.

Question: I'm just a little confused, but why did the fat man steel the little girl's horse?

I'm not sure if I do like this chapter, i'm kinda confused.

*Chapter 1*

In chapter 1, a soldier goes to wash his clothes, and he comes running back with some news that he had heard form another soldier who heard if from some one else and so on. The news was that the post was going to be moving across the river. None of the men really believed him. One of the men said that he was certain they wouldn't move beacuse he had been in the same spot for 2 weeks and they said they were going to be moving at least 8 different times. Henry enlisted in the army even though his mom didn't want him to. His mom told him that she will still go on even if he does enlist.

Question: Why do they keep talking about Henry? Why is he so important?

I liked this chapter because it somewhat tells about the home life of the soldiers before they enlist. For example, Henry's mom didn't want him to enlist, but he thought he should. Also, it shows how there were rumors going around the posts just like in life back at home, like in school, or your job, or just around your neighborhood. So yeah, I liked this chapter.