Life is a short and fragile thing. I believe that I should live everyday like it is my last.

Watching graduation last night has made me realize how fast life goes by. It seems like one week ago that I was chasing girls at recess and now I am chasing girls at high school. “Life’s short” is a common phrase that is overused, stitched on pillows and used as a computer wallpaper. All it takes is a simple look into the meaning. I will put it in a more abrupt way; we could all die in thirty seven seconds. As we sit here there could be a huge explosion or I could just choke on my own spit as I’m talking and die. As I thought about this idea more I realized something. What if I really did choke on my spit and die? What are some things that I have never done, that I just missed out on because I put it off until tomorrow. If I’m extremely attracted to someone, my first feeling is fear. I don’t want to go talk to the pretty girl. Why don’t I though? What is the worst that could happen? She laughs and walks away, life goes on. I’ve realized that time goes on whether I am ready for it to or not and every second passed being scared of something is a second wasted that could have been used doing something I’ve never done before. I’ve spent to many hours sitting on my bed feeling bad for myself and thinking about why my circumstances are worse than others. I have spent to many hours sitting doing absolutely nothing. Life can come to an abrupt end at anytime and I’ve realized that every second that goes by puts me a second closer to death and I want the last thing I say to someone to be something that I mean not some stupid fight ending in a horrible insult and although this is completely against the rules of writing, I want to take the opportunity in this assignment to tell all of you that I love you, all creepiness aside, I love every single one of you, yes even you Haley. For the most part I take all of my friends for granted and life isn’t about taking things for granted it’s about seeing something and looking at it like it’s the first time you’ve ever seen it.  The only way to live each day is to pretend like there is no tomorrow because there just might not be, this I believe.   

GENERAL RESOLVES No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable] No more smokeing or chewing Bath every other day Read one improving book or magazine per week Save $5.00 {crossed out} $3.00 per week Be better to parents

” I thought the American Dream was portrayed significantly to Gatsby’s little day planner that showed his goals. A significant part of the American Dream is independency and being able to”pull yourself up by your own bootstrap.” THis is exactly what Gatsby does. It shows his short term goals to make himself a better person and that is a very important part of the American Dream is being able to improve one’s self.

2.) Character Development: Nick grows up a tremendous amount in this chapter. He ties off all of Gatsby’s affair and is pretty much the only person ther by Gatsby’s side through his death. He fixes everything and leaves the best memory of Gatsby as possible. At the end of the chapter he moves away and moves on will his life.

3.) Color: Green is really significant in the chapter for example, “green light at the end of Daisy’s dock”, “a fresh, green breast of the new world”, and “long green tickets” Green symbolizes Gatsby’s goals throughout the book. For example, Gatsby wanted money, this was a huge goal of his and not to mention the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock for Gatsby’s biggest dream.

2.) Character Development: In this chapter Gatsby is seen as even more perserverant he doesn’t give up hope on Daisy until he dies. All the signs point to the fact that Daisy just wants to be with Tom but Gatsby just doesn’t give up hope he just keeps believing in his dream.

3.) Color: When Gatsby is on his porch wearing Pink I thought this symbolized the fact that he still loved Daisy with all his heart because of the pink relating to Daisy earlier in the book. It symbolzes Gatsby’s dream

“I don’t trust him, old sport.”

“How long are you going to wait?”

“All night, if necessary. Anyhow, till they all go to bed.”

2.) Character Development: During this chapter everything is put out on the table. There are no more secrets. In this chapter we see a different side of Tom who is finally fed up with Daisy’s secretive behavior. He calls out Gatsby and ends up winning the fight in the end. Throughout the book Tom typically keeps his cool about things but during this chapter he fights for what he wants and we see a brutal side out of him.

3.)Color: The color yellow is significant in this scene. The yellow car hit Myrtle and killed her and this brought pain to Tom. Yellow can also be almost considered gold and as revealed earlier it is a sign of new wealth. The color yellow/gold may symbolize Gatsby and the destruction he brought into Tom’s life. Also while we are talking about symbolism the weather is very symbolic througout the book. For example, it is raining the day that Gatsby and Daisy reawaken their love and then it is the hottest day of the summer on the day that their love essentially starts to come to an end. I am not sure all the significance in this.

2.)Character Development: Nick finally reveals Gatsby’s true past. Gatsby is nothing that he said he was. He came from a poor background and got his money from a man he used to work for. This also gives a greaty insight to Gatsby’s current personality issues. It brings light to all those times he quickly changed the subject about his past. The book also reveals a deeper look into Gatsby’s psycological prison. ”

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.” Gatsby has dreamed of having Daisy for so long that instead of loving her he fell in love with the dream. And now that Gatsby is getting her, he doesn’t have that dream anymore.

3.) Color:…

2.)Character Development: Once again another side of Gatsby is revealed. Before the audience sees Gatsby as confident (borderline cocky in my opinion) but now the audience sees a flustered Gatsby that is panicing throughout the entire chapter. ”

““Oh, God!” in a miserable way.

“What’s the matter?”

“This is a terrible mistake,” he said, shaking his head from side to side, “a terrible, terrible mistake.”

“You’re just embarrassed, that’s all,” and luckily I added: “Daisy’s embarrassed too.”

“She’s embarrassed?” he repeated incredulously.

“Just as much as you are.”“

Don’t talk so loud.””

He also seems borderline stalkerish and creepy in some of the things he says to Daisy. For example, ”

“We haven’t met for many years,” said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.

“Five years next November.””

3.) Color: Lavender, and once again gold and green are significant in this chapter. “except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.” “We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk ” “with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender ” You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”

2.) Character Development: IN this chapter we see a different side of Gatsby. He insists on showing proof of his background from being in war. He claims he is from the mid west and when Nick asks him what part he says San Fransisco. San Fransisco is not in the mid west so we can see that Gatsby is lying just to make himself look better. He also is afraid to tell Nick straight up that he wants to meet with Daisy. He has to say it through Jordan like a second grader. This new attitude changes the audience’s impression of him being wealthy and smooth to kind of childish.

3.) The color green is significant in this chapter along with Creme. Gatsbys car has a green interior and a creme exterior. This symbolizes new money and old money and kind of symbolizes who Gatsby is on in the inside.

2.) Character Development: Finally Fitzgerald reveals more about Gatsby. At first it kind of feels like Gatsby is lonely and sad because of the end of chapter one when he is sitting on the dock by himself. Now it shows a different side of Gatsby. One where he is well known and liked by many people. It also shows that he is a kind man in the way that he invites Nick and is so kind to him. “Don’t mention it,” he enjoined me eagerly. “Don’t give it another thought, old sport. And don’t forget we’re going up in the hydroplane to-morrow morning, at nine o’clock.”

3.) Color: The color yellow is significant in this chapter. For example, The two girls in the yellow dresses and the orchestra playing “yellow cocktail music

The character of Tom definatley had a different side to him no shown in Chapter one. First, he and Myrtle do their thing while getting after getting very drunk. Next Tom breaks Myrtles nose and doesn’t really even give a second thought to it. He is very casual about it. It is also revealed that he doesn’t like to mix his secret fantasy life with his reality.

The color gray is significant in this chapter. “Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray”

2.) Nick seems to be really innocent and he starts to get exposed to the outside world. It seems like he has never encountered things like unloyal marriage. It seems like he longs for acceptance from other people.

3.) White was a color used significantly. I think it represents purity in Nick’s life and beauty.