For today's class, our objectives were to be able to analyze how Gatsby’s change in status symbolizes the American Dream as a topic and to be able to interpret how Gatsby’s change in status develops a theme about the American Dream. To practice this skill, Mr. Rivers let us break off into our groups. Our task was to find four event/quotes from the story of Gatsby’s youth and plot Gatsby’s status during each event. Two popular quotes that were found were, “For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.” This quote shows that unlike Tom, Gatsby has to work for his wealth, and was not born into wealth like Tom was. Another quote found by all five groups was, “ His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.” This quote also shows that Gatsby did not just come from a not wealthy family, but also had very low status.
Right before the class was going to discuss a third quote/event, the choir students showed up to sing christmas carols for the class. Little did I know how great they were. They sang two songs, most of the singers actually singing and a couple of them were beat-boxing. The whole class loved it. Not going to lie I was very impressed myself, sadly I was not able to make it to their concert tonight.
Christmas carolers →
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