Harlem
Gwendolyn Bennett was a talented woman.This was her job.
What is a community organizer?
The novel is told in this point of view?
What is 1st person?
The detailed description of parties that happen at Gatsby’s house best serves the purpose of this.
What is revealing the extravagance and wealth that the 1920s is famous for?
This is the color most associated with Daisy.
What is white?
The Owl Eyed man makes a few different appearances in the book.
Tell me what he was doing in the library. What was he attempting to learn about Gatsby?
He wanted to see if Gatsby was fake. He thought that if the books were fake, Gatsby is as well.
Youth by Langston Hughes
We have to-morrow
Bright before us
Like a flame
Yesterday, a night-gone thing
A sun-down name
And dawn to-day
Broad arch above the road we came,
We march.
The tone of this poem is.
What is optimistic?
This is where Nick first meet Tom’s girlfriend. Describe its significance later in the novel.
What is George Wilson’s garage?
It becomes important later when she dies there, signifying that she never advances the social ladder.
Gatsby and Daisy meet in Nick’s home, Gatsby almost breaks Nick’s
What is mantle clock?
This was where and when Tom peaked in life.
What is at 21, in college, playing sports? He will spend the rest of his life chasing that high.
The eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg is a symbol for this.
What are the eyes of god watching and passing judgement?
Calling Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life,
Nor shall fate’s deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around,
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!
This the best way to describe the author’s tone in “Calling Dreams?”
What is empowered?
This is the job that Nick is learning.
Why was this a good time to learn this trade?
What is the stocks and bonds business?
This was a high interest field and the stock market was lucrative.
This is how Gatsby proved to Nick that he really had gone to war while they drove to NYC.
What is shown to Nick a photograph and a medal of honor?
Daisy and Myrtle are foils. Tell me about this in the context of the New York trips we see the women take.
Myrtle is bossing around the help and actively entertaining her guest.
Daisy is passive and lets others control what is happening in New York.
Daily double.
What is a paradox?
A paradox is a statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time. Paradoxes are quirks in logic that demonstrate how our thinking sometimes goes haywire, even when we use perfectly logical reasoning to get there.
But a key part of paradoxes is that they at least sound reasonable. They’re not obvious nonsense, and it’s only upon consideration that we realize their self-defeating logic.
Calling Dreams by Georgia Douglas Johnson
The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life,
Nor shall fate’s deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around,
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!
This word in the following lines best exemplifies the poem’s determined mood. “The right to
make my dreams come true, / I ask, nay, I demand of life,”
What is demand?
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair”
Describe Nick's tone. What literary device is used in this text?
What is pessimistic and repetition?
“Well, this would interest you. It wouldn’t take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing.”
This word(s) can help us to infer something about Gatsby's career. Identify the word and what we learn from it.
What is confidential and that Gatsby has a sketchy career?
Daisy accidentally tells Tom about the affair between herself and Gatsby. How does she do it?
What is when Daisy arranges for her and Gatsby to be alone by saying, “You take Nick and Jordan. We’ll follow you in the coupe”?
Myrtle is always changing her clothes when she's with Tom. This is the color of the dress she changes into in the NYC apartment and this is the significance of the color.
What is a brown dress.
The brown represents the dirtiness she feels in cheating on Wilson with Tom.
The Harlem Renaissance is significant to the American literary canon because of this.
What is marking a period of rebirth for Black arts and culture after the Great Migration?
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”
The lines between Nick and Gatsby, “‘You can’t repeat the past.’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’” show the reader this about Gatsby?
What is the optimism that Gatsby has for reaching his goal? He has changed his fortune and he believes that he will be able to marry Daisy just as he was supposed to upon leaving the war.
What is in Santa Barbra and she broke her arm in the car wreck?
“This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into the ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally….move dimly…through the powdery air.”
This passage describes this.
What is the dumping ground for the ashes of coal that were used to power factories?