BNW Chp 16 Notes

-The savage wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelf
-The savage picked and opened a book that read MY LIFE AND WORK BY OUR FORD
-The book didn’t interest him
-Mustapha Mond had an interest in savage
-The savage’s face lit up with a sudden pleasure
-Bernard sank into a yet more hopeless Misery
-Beauty’s attractive, and we dont want people to be attracted by old things
-He remembered how Helmholts had laughed at Romeo and Juliet

Brave New World Chp 6-7

-Lenina has decided that Bernard is definitely odd
-We discover that Bernard is an Alpha-Plus psychologist, which is why he has permission to visit the Savage Reservation in New Mexico
-Bernard wanted Passion with Lenina said he wanted to feel “something strongly”
-Lenina tells this all to Fanny, concluding that she wishes he weren't so odd
-Helmholtz likes that Bernard is someone he can talk to, but he hates that the man is prone to such boasting and such self-pity
-Lenina and Bernard fly to Santa Fe, New Mexico
-Lenina said that the “progress is lovely 
-Bernard said there wasn’t going to be any reservations on this trip
-Lenina convinces Bernard to take four tablets of soma
-Bernard thinks that its funny
-The guide leads them, amid the sound of beating drums, to the bottom of a three-hundred-foot precipice
-This place makes lenina feel small
-The people at the pueblo haven’t heard of “Oh Ford”
-Lenina gets horrified because she sees an old man

Gatsby Questions

1) Is Gatsby great? Is he even a good person?
 In my opinion i think that Gatsby is in between of being a good and a bad person because he helps people but just to impress Daisy,i think it makes him kind of selfish.

2) Nick can say that he’s honest to himself  but not really to everyone he talks to,for example he knew about toms affair with Myrtle,when he was asked about the rumors that he was engaged he denied it,and he knows that Gatsby is not who he say he is but still doesn’t tell anyone.

3)I agree with Fitzgerald calling Tom and Daisy careless people because they are insensitive and thoughtless.Tom hit Myrtle right in the face and broke her nose,then Daisy ran her over with her car and didn’t want to admit her guilt.Daisy likes talking to Gatsby but when there’s problems she likes going to Tom.After Gatsby gets shot and dies Tom and Daisy leave and never show up.

4)Daisy Bachanan is an unpleasant,selfish,and careless person who only thinks about herself. She flirst with Gatsby and Tom at the same time,yet she doesn’t care.When things go wrong with Gatsby she goes straight to Tom,when she ran over Myrtle she stayed quiet about it and didn’t say a word about it.Then when Gatsby was killed she went with Tom and never returned.

5)I think that the last sentence of the story is referring to Gatsby because Gatsby is a symbol, Daisy is a symbol of his past.Then when Nick mentions that Gatsby is worth the whole bunch.

20th Century Writing Style

Genre is a category of artistic composition

Realism is the belief in an objective, accessible truth, and moral relativity

Naturalism is the belief that only natural, forces act in the world

Modernism is the belief that humans and human morality are essentially and can lead to consequences