*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.