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Post by MidnightsShadow on Jul 30, 2005 18:15:07 GMT -5
Does anyone know the point of it? I can prttey much understand it, Im in chapter 2, but whats the point? Grrr
I have to read it before 8-15 for AP Eng 3. I just found out on Thur.
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Post by LaFemmeImmortelle on Jul 30, 2005 20:18:02 GMT -5
Oy. All I can say is good luck! I hated that book.
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Post by NorthCoast on Jul 30, 2005 20:30:57 GMT -5
Gatsby: I want want I can't have. I think I'll mope about it till the end of my days.
Daisy: I'm a selfish bitch. Life is soooooooooo hard when you have to chose between lovers.
Tom: I'm manly and masculine and terrifying. *Growl, strut, growl, strut*
Nick: I live next to a really rich guy and get invited to all his parties. Woo!
Yeah...that's basically the whole book right there.
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Post by fireangel265 on Jul 30, 2005 21:14:46 GMT -5
That was an odd book. It has a lot of color symbolism. Green= Envious. Red= Passion or anger. Yellow= Cowardness. And the list goes on.
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Post by Lauren on Jul 30, 2005 22:35:31 GMT -5
hehehe north i love your summary of tom lol
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Post by Kim on Jul 30, 2005 23:10:52 GMT -5
My advice, go to pinkmonkey.com to get the cliff notes, it will help you alot Personally, I liked the book. But that's just because out of the books we read my junior year, (Scarlett Letter, Great Gatsby, Red Badge of Courage, Grapes of Wrath) it was the best...
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Post by melimsah on Jul 30, 2005 23:20:54 GMT -5
The books I read my junior year: Roots, Cane River, Rain of Gold, Tortuga, and three self-chosen detective novels and a lot of short stories. No boring classics for me! Woot!
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Post by Lauren on Jul 30, 2005 23:43:09 GMT -5
im going into my junior year so i dunno what books we're reading. i hope not the scarlet letter. i didnt really like it
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Post by melimsah on Jul 31, 2005 1:22:16 GMT -5
Junior AP classes cover that book.
Oh, and that's right! We also read "the Crucible!" AAAAAAAAAUGH! *gurgle gurgle death rattle* Such a painful book! I hope I never have to read it AGAIN. Once was more than enough, let alone twice and then a third time.
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Post by FailureByDesign on Jul 31, 2005 2:12:38 GMT -5
I loved the Crucible then again, I love anything about the Salem Witch Trials and the Puritan times... I read the Great Gatsby, I think North pretty much got it summarized haha
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Post by Dragon on Jul 31, 2005 3:47:48 GMT -5
I was in regular english junior year and i still had to read the scarlet letter... dam book, Dam DAM DAM YOU BOOK!
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Post by Dragon on Jul 31, 2005 3:49:14 GMT -5
And lighty, where were you tonight, I don't know if I told you, but fritz, the guy we played with, is from Arizona too! He asked me what part you were from, but I couldn't remember! I WANTED TO PLAY HORDE, but I didn't want to get ahead of you... OH, I can make linen bags now
and for the rest of you wondering what I'm talking about
World of Warcraft
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Post by melimsah on Jul 31, 2005 13:45:10 GMT -5
I was online up to around 11:30. I didn't know if you were online, because Dragz wasn't active in Moonrunner. I started a Tauren and was workin' on that. It can do the electric slide!! Yeah, dragon. That was quite a topic shift there.
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Post by MidnightsShadow on Aug 1, 2005 13:30:43 GMT -5
Lol! Nice, North!
But what is the plot?
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Post by Kim on Aug 1, 2005 22:35:52 GMT -5
Gatsby loves Daisy but since she is a rich snob, he thinks that he has to be rich to get her. So he spends his life making a name for himself just so he can win her heart. But, North got the point. Like I said, I'd advise going to pinkmonkey.com and reading the Cliff notes along with the book. It will help
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Post by ~Aly~ on Aug 1, 2005 23:05:51 GMT -5
i havent had to read any books for english yet but i probably will next year...
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Post by LaFemmeImmortelle on Aug 2, 2005 1:23:37 GMT -5
ROFL, North! That pretty much summarized it.
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Post by NorthCoast on Aug 2, 2005 12:36:48 GMT -5
Thanks. If anyone else needs books summerized I can also do Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, A Tale of Two Cities, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, Othello, In Cold Blood, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Catcher in the Rye, etc.
I ought to make my own cliffnotes website ; )
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Post by Lauren on Aug 2, 2005 18:10:51 GMT -5
oh i read lord of the flies in my 6th grade class... it was really weird... all i really remember about it is dead pigs lol
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Post by melimsah on Aug 2, 2005 19:15:57 GMT -5
*blinks*
Just shows who I am. I've only read two of those titles.
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Post by Kim on Aug 2, 2005 19:34:43 GMT -5
Oy! I hated Lord of the Flies! It was stupid, retarded, annoying! If it would've been girls stranded on an island, we wouldn't have gone all testosterony and dumb!
Throughout my HS career, well, I can't remember. My freshman year we just read a lot of stories out of our literature book and we read a lot of plays. I don't remember my sophomore year, because I've blocked that year out. My junior year we read The Scarlett Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Grapes of Wrath. My senior year we read Pride and Prejudice, 1984, and Lord of the Flies.
I can't say that I've enjoyed any book I've had to read in HS. I enjoyed reading short stories better, like Lamb to the Slaughter. I love that story.
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Post by LaFemmeImmortelle on Aug 3, 2005 0:32:21 GMT -5
Lord of the Flies was probably my most favorite non-Shakespearian school reading that I liked. Lighty, that just shows that you come from a younger stock of students. Or your school was cool for not shoving the stuff we had down your throat.
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Post by Kim on Aug 3, 2005 13:30:05 GMT -5
I liked Shakespeare.
I liked anything, actually, that had a lot of symbolism in it. My brain tends to think things over to much, so symbolism is good for my poor overworking brain.
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Post by LaFemmeImmortelle on Aug 3, 2005 15:24:20 GMT -5
I love Shakespeare! My favorite play is Much Ado About Nothing. I like symbolisms, but I try to make things symbols when they really aren't. -_- Suck at looking for them, but love reading the plays.
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Post by TrishyKay on Aug 3, 2005 18:05:21 GMT -5
We read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, and The Grapes of Wrath last year. We only do Summer reading for Comm. from now on, but I'm taking Great Books next year so I'm excited about the books we're going to read. I'm supposed to read 1984 for my Summer reading this month.. I'll do it the day before school starts. =D Nikki. Lol, you had 18 or 19 days to read it. That's good. We had to read The Grapes of Wrath in 2 days. I don't think you're a slow reader so be grateful you have more than a week to read it. Seeing as it's summer, you shouldn't have too much difficulty getting it read. Also - what's the point of any book? Books don't have to have a point to them.
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