Settings

I got picked again for the blog. To be honest, I don't think my name got picked out of the cup, but I was the only one that laughed when Mr. Sadgrove buckled (hahahaha) so he picked me. *Anyway, the focus of the lesson was settings - mainy in the The Great Gatsby, but also in the other texts we've been studying. So, the first thing we had to do was to write a headline for 'Town Tattle' (the magazine on the table in Mytle's apartment) focusing on the events in Chapter 4 and 5. For Chapter 4's headline I wrote ' GATSBY TO DAISY: "I WANT YOU BACK" ' and for Chapter 5 I wrote 'DAISY AND GATSBY'S FLING -PAGES 5 AND 6!". Don't know why, but when Mr. Sadgrove asked everyone what headlines they had done, the word 'revealed' kept coming up. *We then moved on, and listened (once again) to Nicholas Tredell (aka 'egghead' according to Mr. Sadgrove). Tredell commented on the use of 1st person narrator and -briefly - the use of Jordan as a modified 1st person narrator. Tredell said that the use of a first person narrator creates intamacy, involvement and immediacy between the narrator and the audience. However, Tredell also spoke of the negative side of a 1st person narrator. Sticking to a first person narrator, he said, means the narrator cannot always tell you about something, and how everything filters through Nick, which makes it debatable whether something is totally factual. *Then, we disussed 'Pathetic Fallacy'. This is defined as "when the inanimate reflects mood or sense or ideas. It's a form of personification." After this, we split in to 4/5 groups and each group was designated a setting in The Great Gatsby to study. The 4 settings were East Egg, West Eggm The Valley of the Ashes and New York. We then split up in to another 4/5 groups and discussed our respective settings that we had studied and made notes on each one. Homework: - Read all of The Great Gatsby (Tuesday) *NOTE TO EVERYONE: IF YOU'RE WRITING THE BLOG AND YOU HAVEN'T PUBLISHED IT, DO NOT CLICK ON 'CHECK PRINITING BALANCE'. IT CHANGED THE PAGE AND I HAD TO WRITE THE WHOLE BLOODY BLOG AGAIN. *Daniel.