Great Gatsby Essay

4. Describe and analyze a lesson that Nick tells or teaches the reader in his retelling of the events in The Great Gatsby.

I think this overall book gives one big point or lesion throughout the book, you may see little things through the book hinting it but in the end you see it the most. The lesion I see is that every one is there for them selves. They go for what they want, not caring about the consequences of others physical or mental condition. In the book people cheat on each other, hurt people, and one person even got away with murder and while doing so they weren’t disturbed at the thought at all. A man is married to this woman and he cheated on her with another woman. He even kisses his mistress right behind the mistress’s husbands back. The man cheating also bosses around the mistress husband as if a superior and better. Another single man is with the wife of the cheating husband too. Now this new guy uses an “old sport” or friend that is related to this girl so that he could get with her. Since most of these people are rich they can spend money and buy whatever the person wants to buy their happiness and co-operation so they can get what they want. When the original mistress mentions the man’s real wives name the man just breaks her nose. With blood going everywhere the guests decide its time to go and just get up and leave. In the elevator on their way out they just talk about average things “so lunch tomorrow” with the response of “sure” as they walk out of a abusive fight. Near the end instead of getting in a car accident one of the girls decide to run over and kill her husbands mistress. But not just that she lets some one else take the blame. A man that loves her takes the blame and he can since it was his car that hit her. He gets shot and killed from the husband of the now dead woman and then the shooter kills himself. No one cared, no one even comes to the funeral of the man that took the blame except his one friend, father, and a stranger with big glasses. The real murder just skips town doesn’t tell any one not even her relative and probably comes back in a little when it calms down and every one forgets in a few months. Every one uses each other to get something for themselves and not caring about what the others got coming to them.

blog #27 Nature Blog

1. How did you react to the idea that even in the 21st century, there are still parts of California (and the world) that are completely undiscovered? What does this make you think & feel?

I am somewhat surprised that there were unexplored places in the world but I of course new not every square inch has been charted and mapped. I can see how it is unmapped and people might not have been there for many years but people can never know if some one a thousand years ago might have walked through or not. How ever I am still surprised that if people where finding giant trees on the California coast you think some one would think what if there are bigger ones in further back valleys or neighboring valleys.


3. Before people started exploring the tree canopies, many people assumed it was like a desert up there (barren of life). It turned out to more like a coral reef (teeming with biodiversity). Why were so many people so wrong? Why did they make the wrong assumption? What lessons should we learn from these discoveries?

I think many people think trees are barren because if you just climb a tree or look at it, it doesn’t appear to have anything on it except the bark and the trees. Most people when they grow up don’t climb tree’s thinking its irresponsible and that they don’t need to because they can see what’s in the tree by looking at it from the ground. The lesson should be don’t just give a quick look and declare what’s in the tree look closely and observe all the tree not just the part you can see from the ground.