One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Reading Two

The actues are getting the best of the rivalry between Nurse Ratchet and McMurphy because they are able to follow along with his attempts to make Ratchet lose her temper, which is often times funny. Many times when McMurphy is trying to upset Ratchet, he is merely being idiotic. When he leaves the bathroom in his boxers, it was a good laughing moment and he also gained on his goal of making her mad. At this point in the story, my perception of Chief is that he plays an important role of portraying the story from an outsider view point, but we also get the thoughts of an actual patient. I think he has the possibility of being a hero at the end of the book, but right now he is just staying in the background. McMurphy has made Chief, in some aspects more frustrated with the system because he didn't necessarily enjoy many of the things Ratchet did, but he never fought them. Chief rolled with the punches and went on about his day, but now with McMurphy, Chief can't roll with the punches because he doesn't know what to expect. At this point, I am rooting for McMurphy because he is bringing life to the ward and he is standing up to Ratchet because even though he is just trying to make her mad, he is in some ways bettering the lives of the patients. McMurphy may not go about everything the best of ways, but he is good intentions that will most likely end him up on top.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Reading One

Nurse Ratched is a villain because she views the patients as objects and doesn't truly care about them. Even when Chief is being shaved and he is being resistant, she doesn't take the time to try and talk to him and calm him down. She just shoves pills down his throat to knock him out and so she wouldn't have to deal with him. She wants to fix the patients and send them on their way. She took an acute and instead of taking the time to care for him, she made him worse and now he is a vegetable in the chronic wing of the institute. The Chief may or may not end up being a hero, right now the reader trusts him because he is a patient, he is telling the story, and he is the one the reader trusts. He may end up being just a character in the book with importance but not hero worthy. Mr. McMurry is an anti-hero because he brings life to the mental hospital and he shows up with a boasting personality and depends attention and doesn't let Mrs. Ratched push him around. He gives in and complies with the rules but on his own time.

Great Gatsby Ch. 7-9

-What makes Nick, rather than any other character, a more effective narrator?
Nick is a more effective narrator because not only does he have connections to all the characters, but he learns about Gatsby and all the infidelities the same time the reader does. He tells the story as it was happening around him, which made it easier for the reader to picture the scene and be more apart of the book. We as the audience could almost, to some extent, live in the book though Nick.
-Why is it effective when Nick imagines that America was a goal for explorers, like Daisy was for Gatsby?
Nick imagines that the explores viewed America was this great goal for dreamers and explorers and how it was "too good to be true". He compares Daisy and Gatsby to this because, Gatsby has idealized Daisy to such a point that she will never be able to live up to his expectations. Gatsby has this dream of what his life with Daisy would/could be.
-What is the significance of using symbols, such as the Valley of Ashes or the green light at the end of the dock, in the book?
The significance of using symbols in the book is to, get the reader to think more about what is really going on in that time period. The Valley of Ashes is essentially the working class and how it isn't the most ideal place to live and it is often looked down upon by the upper class, but it isn't the bottom of the bottom. The green light at the end of the dock is used to show how deeply Gatsby wants to be with Daisy but no matter how hard he tries, he never will have her.
-How does Gatsby embody the American dream?
Gatsby embodies the American dream because he is the success story of coming from little to nothing to this huge mansion with luxurious rooms that he doesn't use other than for parties. He goes from being a janitor to go to school, to being veteran and an "Oxford Man" living in New York with an envied house and fabulous parties. Gatsby does fall short in the American Dream because he doesn't feel satisfied. He has all this success and fortune, but he only truly wants Daisy.

Great Gatsby Ch. 4-6

Meyer Wolfsheim's purpose as a character is to help support or add detail to Gatsby's background. He also further illustrates how far Gatsby has come on the social ladder. They used to bootleg illegal alcohol and now Gatsby doesn't even really drink. Having a character such as Wolfsheim makes the audience want to distrust Gatsby, but we already do because of events earlier in the book. If Wolfsheim had been introduced early in the book, we as an audience would be more hesitant with trusting Gatsby. Jay and Daisy's background pushes the reader to, in essence, root more for Gatsby because of the love story between the two and how he had nothing when they meet and when he went off to war she left him for a man with money, and now that Gatsby has money, the audience wants Daisy to go back to Gatsby for the happily ever after they deserve. The audience wants Gatsby to succeed because he didn't have much when he was younger and he had to work to go to college and one day by chance his life was changed. It was a "Cinderella Story" and it just makes the audience puttying in the writer's hands. I like Gatsby more because before he was a mysterious character and there wasn't much substance to him and now that he had a backstory and it isn't terrible sad yet isn't terribly happy, I find myself liking him more and more.

Great Gatsby Ch. 1-3

Gatsby is a hero because we don't know much about him right now, but he could turn out to save another characters life or benefit the society immensely. Nick Carraway is going to be a anti-hero because he is educated and seems to mean well, but he seems self-oriented because he says, "And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit," (2). Tom Buchanan and Myrtle are going to be a villains because Tom is cheating on his wife with Myrtle and Tom didn't even Wilson the time of day. Tom also shows a violent outbreak when he breaks Myrtle's nose when she begins to chant Daisy's name. Daisy will be an anti-hero because she means well but she married Tom for his money, not for love. T. J. Ecleburg is a hero because he has the eyes on his sign that watch over everything and he doesn't seem to have done anything wrong other than the fact that he is vanished.