Ch. 5

So in chapter five, Nick comes home but then realizes the the Gatsby's house is really lit up.

Ch. 4

So after lunch in the city, Jordan explains what her meeting with Gatsby was about. Gatsby wants Jordan to convince Nick to get Daisy to have a reunion with Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby were in love during the war and Gatsby wants to see her again to see if there feelings are still the same. Gatsby wants Jordan to get Nick to have a get together so that Gatsby can see if they still have feelings for each other.

Ch.3

In chapter 3 Nick was at the house and a man from Gatby's house came over with an invitation to a party at his house that night. He goes to the party and meets up with his friend Jordan since she is the only one there that he knows. Nick is sitting there when a man tells him that he looks familiar and that man happened to be Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby invites Nick to breakfast the next morning. Towards the end of the chapter it talks about how Nick is honest where Jordan is more dishonest. Nick knows this but still is strongly attracted to her.

Ch. 2

Chapter two starts off by talking about the poor section of the city that's known as the valley of ashes. Also a big part of the Valley of Ashes is the billboard with a pair of eyes looking down on the town. Nick stops at this town with Tom to pick up Myrtle to have his affair. Also in chapter two is a party were Myrtle ends up gettng drunk and loud then starts talking about Daisy, so Tom ends up breaking her nose.

Ch. 1

So in chapter one they bring out mostly all of the characters and where they live. Nick is the main character and also the narrator. The other characters in the story are Jordan, Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, Wilson, and Gatsby. He also explains the difference between the west egg and the east egg.

The Great Gatsby

-F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 19896 in St. Paul Minnesota. His parents where Catholic with a little Irish decent. His first published story was The Mystery of the Raymond Mortage.
Scott went to Princeton after highschool mainly because of their football. He also joined the triangle club a Princeton, where they put on show and wrote lyrics. During his time a t Princeton for 1913 to 1917, and he fell in love with a Ginevra King and then broe up.
A year after that he fell in lve witha girl named Zelda Sayre whose dad was a member of the supreme court. The start to Scott's fame was the publishig of The Romantic Egoist. After a good start with selling stories he married Zelda and Shortly after found out she's pregnant. Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born Oct. 20 1921. Frances ended up being their only child because Zelda had infected reproductive organs.
They ended up moving to Europe where The Great Gastby was started and published in 1925. In 1930 Zelda was put into a insane asylum for schizophrenia. Scotts last writing was The Last Tycoon and then died in 1940 of a heart attack.

-The quote i think is very true. It's good to see him think of somethin like this when he himself barely gave any effort during his school years.He is pretty much saying write stories or papers that will be good for youger generation to learn from, for teachers to teach from. So pretty much he wanted people to pick up good literary skills from good work such as his own.

"I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze."

-1920's also the Jazz age was mainly concerned with WWI
1928, first colored TV
Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean
Prohibition

THESIS

In the book The Red Badge of Courage, Henry and Wilson always have each others backs and look out for each other even though they have differences and conflicts between each other. They both are experiencing the same feelings through out the war and because of this they gain a brotherhood through out the story between one another.

1st Point:

Henry and Wilson have their differences between each other in different parts of the story. Just a few examples of them would be towards the beginning of the story when Henry is just looking around noticing everybody in his regiments different personality and see’s that Wilson is pretty loud and obnoxious, were Henry on the other hand is shy and stays to himself.

“There was a youthful private who listened with eager ears to the words of the tall soldier and to the varied comments of his comrades. After receiving a fill of discussions concerning marches and attacks, he went to his hut and crawled through an intricate hole that served it as a door. He wished to be alone with some new thoughts that had lately come to him” (Crane 1.14).

2nd Point:

A conflict that Henry and Wilson have is when they are both on the battle field and they both see that their guy that is holding the American flag is shot, they both hurry and try and carry the flag. They argue and shove about it for awhile until their Lieutenant splits them up and sends one of them to the frontline and one to hold the flag.

“The youth and his friend had a small scuffle over the flag. "Give it t' me!" "No, let me keep it!" Each felt satisfied with the other's possession of it, but each felt bound to declare, by an offer to carry the emblem, his willingness to further risk himself. The youth roughly pushed his friend away”(Crane 20.3).

3rd Point:

Even though they may have these differences and conflicts in the end they are both able to help each other out when they’re going through rough times. Some hard times would be when Wilson isn’t quite sure he is going to make it through a this battle he is fighting when he has already seen a few men die, so he gave Henry a yellow envelope and asks Henry if he dies to give it to his family.

In chapter 13 when Henry returns to camp with a head injury that Wilson notices first. Wilson talks to the commanders and they agree that it was a graze. So Wilson helps out Henry by wrapping and taking care of his injury then puts him to sleep.

“The loud young soldier watched his comrade with an air of satisfaction. He later produced an extensive handkerchief from his pocket. He folded it into a manner of bandage and soused water from the other canteen upon the middle of it. This crude arrangement he bound over the youth's head, tying the ends in a queer knot at the back of the neck.

"There," he said, moving off and surveying his deed, "yeh look like th' devil, but I bet yeh feel better" (Crane 13.29).

“"It's my first and last battle, old boy," continued the loud soldier. "Something tells me--"

"What?"

"I'm a gone coon this first time and--and I w-want you to take these here things--to--my--folks." He ended in a quavering sob of pity for himself. He handed the youth a little packet done up in a yellow envelope” (Crane3.60).

Saving Private Ryan

Light & Dark- right thing to do and wrong thing to do. This would take place toward the beginning when two Nazi soldiers surrendered but they were killed anyways for the heck of it.

Noise & Silence- When they were waiting for the Germans the music was playing but then when they finally see them coming. the music stops and its just a silence.

Youth & Maturity- The Corporal/ Translator is too scared to kill anyone, but finally after he lets a Nazi kill his partner and let him go, he ends up capturing him but kills him instead.

Clean & Dirty- This would take place when on of the men dies and gives his letter home to another soldier to send home, and instead of sending it home all bloody and dirty, he rewrites his letter on a dry and clean piece of paper.

The Dead Soldier-Wade would represent the kill one soldier but save 1ten times or maybe twenty times as many men.

The Flag- this is what they are fighting for and what the reminds them of home or maybe the war.

The Hand- The General/ Teacher ended up noticing that his hand just randomly shook for no apparent reason. He know that it started be cause of the war. Then towards the end when he's dying, his hand stops.

Courage- They all had to have or build up courage when they were charging the bunkers.

Manhood-Private Ryan Reached his manhood when he decided to stay and fight with his regiment instead of go back to Iowa with his mom. He said his mom would understand if he stayed and fought not only for his brothers death, not only for his country, but to fight for the only brothers he has left,which would be the men in his regiment who he's been fighting with.

Themes & Motifs

Disregard for Human Life- in war you have to get over your morals and kill the people that are trying to kill you.
Noise and Silence- the noise was the commotion of the war going on. the silence were the times when henry wasnt fighting and just thinking.
Light and Dark- light and dark has to do with the fighting scenes. when there was fighting going on it always seemed to be dark but when it was over the light poked through the clouds.
Clean and Dirty-when he started he was clean and had no experience but at the end he was dirty but had all the experience he could have wanted.
Manhood- This goes along with courage in my mind anyway. manhood was dealt with when henry decided to run he thought everybody would make fun of him because he ran and he wasnt man enough.
Self-preservation- this also deals with when henry ran. he ran to take care of himself instead of the rest of the regiment.
The Flag- this could possibly represent the pride and the sense of a win coming near. when they get the flag everybodys moral was boosted.
Youth and Maturity- the youth and maturity showed when he was thinking. He kept thinking oh i cant believe i ran but when he finally was mature enough to let it go he became a great fighter in the war.
The Dead Soldier- the dead soldier represented the possible future and maybe even fear. This makes henry realize what could happen to him.

Characters

Henry Fleming-"The young solider" who fights in the american civil war on the union side. In the begining of his experience he is very questiony about his courage and just kind of shys away from battle, but then towards the end of the book he stands up and fights with courage and dominates.
Jim Conklin- is Henry's fried but also referred to "The tall solider." Jim dies early in the book from his wounds.
Wilson-Alos one of Henry's friends but also known as "The loud solider." Wilson and Henry get to be really great friends in this book, because they are experiencing the same things and are looking out for each other.
The tattered man- this is a solider who was shot twice that Henry encounters and ends up ditching him because he gets annoyed.
Lieutenant- is Henry's commander while in battle.
Henry's mom-Though not mentioned a lot in the story, Henry's mother is a big reason why Henry is fighting so hard toward the end. She is a big motivation in Henry's life

Chp. 24

So in this chapter, Henry's regiment is caommanded to retrace back to the river where they began. The war is finally over. Henry begins to recolect the past and the present. He looks back and frowns upon the coward he used to be and feels terrible for deserting the tattered man. But then he seems to forget about the past and think about the present and what he has accomplished. I think that Henry will be more self confident now, and be able to go back home with strength and courage for what he has done.

Chp. 23

So now in chapter 23 they are still fight and the colonel tells the men that they need to charge or be killed where they are. They charge the enemies fence still fighting, Henry sees that the enemies flag barrer has been shot and killed. So he thinks that capturing the enemies flag would be a great accomplishment. Then he runs over to the flag and Wilson takes it from the dead soldiers hands. The enemy has been driven back and defeated once again. They end up taking 4 prisoners of war. The chapter ends with the men celebrating their victory and Wilson and Henry dicussing their great.

-Why would they need extra men to take care of and watch?

Chp.22

In this chapter, Henry can see two regiments fighting each other and men running all over the place. Henry and his men could hear the enemy charging once again. They prepare for the attack and stand firm waiting for it and the fight begins with gunfire. The enemy is getting dangerously close, so close that Henry can see there faces. Henry is still holding the flag and fighting. The enemy gets position behind a fence where they are able to fight and be protected at the same time. Most of the men from Henry's regiment are being killed or injured. Henry then looks for Wilson and finds him still fighting. Henry says he will keep on fighting until his death.

-While don't they just find cover somewhere?

Chp. 21

In this chapter, the regiment is just kind of sitting around. The Lieutenant comes up and says if they would have gone a hundred more yards they would have been better off and more successful. At this point the rest of the regiment is pretty unhappy with the lieutenant because they just were praising themselves on how they are unable to be beat. Then two younger men come up to Henry and Wilson saying that the Lieutenant asked the colonel about who carried the flag during battle, the colonel told him that Henry Fleming did and that Wilson went to the front line to keep fighting. After the lieutenant heard this he said that Henry and Wilson deserve all the praise they get.

-Why is the Lieutenant so upset when they just won?

Chp. 20

In chapter twenty, Henry and Wilson are fighting over carrying the flag while also fighting their enemy. Henry's Lieutenant calls him a mule driver and goes to the front line as a color bearer. At this point they can't even see their enemy because of all the smoke that has built up from cannons and guns. Once the smoke finally clears they see a lonely field of dead bodies of their enemy. So Henry is relieved he made it through another battle.

-Why are Henry and Wilson wasting time over carrying the flag? Just allow one of them to do it and keep fighting.