Assignment No. 1 Part 2 - María Celeste Muttis and Gabriela Andreoni

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POST 3- Valentina Zanor

I think the most striking moments happen in chapter VII.While I was reading that 

chapter, I had the feeling that nothing had happened in the previous ones. I was 

puzzled twice:

• First, when I realised it was Gatsby's car that hit Myrtle
• and then, when we're told through Gatsby that Daisy was driving

In that moment I started drawing conclusions, and I felt It had been worth reading all 

the other chapters.

When I finished reading the novel, the first thing I thought about was obsessions. 

Sometimes we get so obsessed with something or somebody that we can lose 

everything, because we have no limits. We should be able to manage our feelings and 

not to be so 

easily blinded.

If I could ask the author a question I would ask him why did he chose not to engage 

Nick in any kind of relationship? I expected the novel to end up with love in Nick's 

life.

POST 2- Valentina Zanor

My predictions have been confirmed in terms of setting and the way in which people lived those days.In fact, I chose a quotation that can be related with the lifestyle Americans aspired to have:

"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."

This quotation shows us two different aspects of Daisy:

• She is extremely materialistic. I think that this characteristic could have been easily applied to most women in those days. Money occupied a crucial place when deciding to accept or reject a marriage proposal. Daisy's reaction and her tears in a way symbolize an understanding of what she has given up by choosing to marry Tom over Gatsby. 
• At the same time, we can infer that it is in that moment in which she realizes who she really wanted to spend her life with. She is probably hiding her true feelings, by showing a reaction typical of a shallow person.

The changes I noticed:

• I started seeing Gatsby more as a person. During the first chapters the things we knew about him were just rumors. In the following ones, we discover his feelings and his past.
• The advise that Nick's father gave him, is no longer followed by the charecter. He started criticising most of the other characters. He even praise himself: "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I don't know what will happen next but, I think that the hide business Gatsby carries out must be figured out by Nick.

Midnight in Paris

Enjoy Woody Allen's recreation of Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and Ernest Hemingway.


You may also be interested in this commentary of the film, before or after watching it.

Art in the 19th and early 20th century

The term Impressionism derives from Claude Monet's painting "Impression Sunrise" (1872)

You can read an interesting chronology of this movement and look at some paintings here.

For an overview of French painting in the 19th century, go to the USA National Gallery of Art, where you will also find a discussion of Post-Impressionism.

Post-Impressionism can be exemplified by Georges Seurat's "The Lighthouse at Honfleur" (1886)

Cubism started in Paris in 1908, reached its peak in 1914, and continued into the 20's. Go to the London Tate Gallery for an explanation of its features or read this other discussion

Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) forecasts the new style.

Virginia Woolf dates the change in "human nature" to December 1910, when the first exhibition of French Post-Impressionist and Cubist painting took place in London.

Can you suggest what elements in common you can find with modernism?

This is an optional activity.

Post 1 by Mariel

"...we walked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg's persistent stare". I chose this quatation because this made me think about how this advertisement is used to make the readers feel that "Doctor Eckleburg"-an oculist-is watching what is happenning and what will happen in the story.  This advertisement is  a witness of  the story between the protagonists.
So far, for me,  the characters have something to hide and something to tell. I think,as I have already read the  book, that different and interesting things will happen among Gatsby and Daisy.

Modernism and James Joyce

Some general characteristics of the movement in different fields

Modernism In Literature

View more PowerPoint from Maria Teresa Ciaffaroni



and more specific details regarding literature.

Turning to James Joyce, you can find out about Bloomsday celebrations this year, and about the "Ulysses Meets Twitter" project, of which there is a sample below:

The Great Gatsby: Before reading the novel

Before you start reading a book, it's always a good idea to explore it. Do you know the names of the different parts? Watch this presentation to find out.

The illustration on the front cover should enable you to predict what kind of book you are about to read. Different editions of the same book will have different illustrations.

The Voicethread below includes four different covers of The Great Gatsby (clicking on the picture will enlarge the image).


This blurb can be found in one edition:

"The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature."

From the back cover of A Cornell Edition of The Great Gatsby.

Look at the images, read the blurb and then record your comment: what do you think the novel will be about?  (Note: if you have already read the novel, tell us what the main differences among the covers are in your view) You can also see the covers in greater detail  below. 

Recording a comment on Voicethread is really simple  Register for a free account   Click on Comment   Choose the kind of message you prefer (text, audio or video)   Click on Record   Right click and choose “permitir”   Then choose mike   Speak. After you finish speaking your recording will be played automatically. Click on Save if you are happy with it or Cancel if you are not, and try again.  If in doubt, check this site for instructions.

Deadline: May 22nd          

 

Predictions: Eveline, our next story (optional)

If you go to http://www.wordle.net

you can generate word clouds from text that you provide which give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Look at the Wordle I have created for Joyce's story (click on it or go to http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3580841/Eveline_by_James_Joyce for a larger version).

What do you expect the story to be about? Who may be the characters? What about the setting?

Tell us in the comments below.

Deadline: May 17th.

Here you can see a static image, in case your computer did not allow you to see the previous one.

Note: This is an optional activity which you can do for extra credits. Particularly suitable for those who started later, missed lessons or failed to do other activities.