THE GREAT GATSBY

At first I didn't think this book would of been a love story murder... I actually, to tell you the truth, had no idea what this book was going to be about. Like why was there a random naighbor, Gatsby, standing in the yard looking out at a green light? Or when Tom Buchanan went inside for a phone call and his wife, Daisy, got all sad :( I finally understood what had happend after Jordan Baker explained to Nick.

Fitzerald put "The Great Gatsby" in first and third person of one of the characters, Nick. I enjoyed reading this book but it wasn't one of my favorites :( I liked how Fitzerald seperated each one of his characters with different personalities. Like Tom; he has a wife but on the other hand a secret lover? Ya that's not right... Daisy; she's married to Tom even though she knows about Tom's secret lover but she doesn't say much about the issue. She also kills Myrtle by hitting her with a car :'( Nick; he stays to himself and doesn't get in other peoples business. Jordan; she is very career involved... Each one is very different and i enjoyed that about this book.

Once i relized all the details in the story and everyone had there drama going on; like Gatsby's murder, Myrtle's death and when Daisy turned Gatsby down :( i really thought she would of went for him instead of Tom... When Fitzgerald explained how she didn't want to marry Tom and how she kinda got tricked into it. That's what I thought she was going to think about when she was making her desition and how Tom had Myrtle, his other lover, and how Gatsby just loved her. I guess girls are just fools when it comes to that.... Hmmm?

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

This book has very fond reminders of our countries past and what people had to go through in the early 1900s to survive.

So far I have enjoyed reading this book and the stories Steinbeck has wrote in it. Even though this book was a slow read and not many of the chapters had points or reasons, Steinbeck had discriptions for everything. When he brought a charecter into the book he focused only on them for the time being and that was one of the things I liked about "The Grapes Of Wrath". Another thing I enjoyed was reading how all of the chaceters had changed from the begining to end of the book. For example: Rose of Sharon; at the begining of the book she was a selfish complaining girl and by the end she became a very giving women and a motherly figure, even though she had a stillborn. Like how she helped the old dying man at the end of the book... Tom; at the begining of Grapes he only thought about himself and day to day life of himself and he was ready to hurt anyone that came between that. At the end, he killed two men and spent jail in time for only one. The second murder was when Casy was killed... Tom killed his murderer and ran from the issue that evolved from that by hiding from the police. I believe that Tom had a reason for the second murder over the first because he learned from the second death. He changed his life afterwards and learned that life is worth living if you have patients for others... Ma; she changed dramatically in "The Grapes Of Wrath". Pa explains that Ma changed once she had children and her "old self" was coming out of her agian. She went from a sweet loving mother that had patients for anyone to a person that had to make threats to get what her family needed. At the end of this book she had to learn that even though her family didn't have much neither did anyone elses. She helped feed hungry children when she barely had enough for her own, this showed that her loving charecter at the begining was still there even though she didn't show it as much as before... Many people had to make sacrifices for others they didn't even know... Pa; he had one of the biggest changes of all. He was the "head guy" after Grampa past away but after the trip started and everyone was leaving the family and making there future choices Pa had lost his "rank" and Ma took over the family roll. Even though in the 1900s women weren't good for anything other then cooking, cleaning and having kids; Ma showed everyone that no matter who you are or what your gender is anyone can run a family. And this was very rare for a women to be in charge of family choices.

John Steinbeck had very interesting points in his writing that made me think about things differently... Like how the preacher wasn't a preacher but everyone said he still was a preacher but he knew he wasn't anymore. When by the end of Grapes he truely was i believe because he helped people without really helping them. Tom he saw Casy as a friend not as a preacher and at the end Casy changed Toms life for the best without meaning to. He was still a preacher in my eyes.

"The Grapes Of Wrath" shows the struggles our ancestors had to live through to survive everyday life. And that life that we know isn't anywhere close to what it was before. Also this book had great stories told in it by Steinbeck about our countries struggles...

HUCKLEBERRY FINN

I will have to say that this book had adventure and was very good at times, but the rest of it was really boring. I liked Huck & Jim the most out of all the characters, they made the book interesting, without them it wouldn't give me anything to read. Tom had the weirdest thing to him??? I don't know but he wanted to make everything so hard for Huck Finn when he was trying to get Jim free. It just made me mad reading all the stuff he wanted to do just because "Some other prisoners has done it." just shows to me he was a follower & not a leader.

By the mid-part of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" i believed that Huck had Jim & his trip to freedom all planed out until the "king" sold Jim for $40... that was crazy!! I had no idea of how they were going to get out of that situation. But in the end it seemed like luck was on all of their sides, i guess...

This book had very interesting points at times... but i really didn't enjoy reading it at all. All it was about was an adventure of a "dead boy" & "run away slave". I guess it had meaning in some parts, Like how the slaves were treated; they really had no rights or any say of how they wanted their lives.

The only part that i liked, was funny & made me think was when Jim & Huck were laying under the stars and they were trying to figure out how the stars got there... well when Jim said, "the moon could 'a' laid them" that gave me some thinking ;) ya know? Like how did they get there... I don't know i guess i should just google it or something. Hmmm...?