WHY I WORK

I care enough to work for my family and my education. I work hard everyday so I can make my family proud. I also work hard everyday so I can get a good career and earn enough money to take care of myself. If I did not work at all, and did not try my best at anything. I would just be letting myself down and my family down.

WHAT ARE WE LEARNING NOW?

As we do online school, it feels like what Clarisse from the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is going through. We just sit around and look a video lessons. Although we are gaining lots of knowledge from this unlike Clarisse. I believe this online school thing would lead to some of us becoming lazy, because we have no one pressuring us to do the work. I believe that many of us would want to do school this way, and then we would transform to online school. Then we would end up like Fahrenheit 451 where the world revolves around only technology.  At least we are gaining knowledge from all of this, and learning to do new things, and practice new skills.

THE RIGHT TO READ

I believe the banning of books was a terrible mistake. Americans need to read in order to gain knowledge and help make this world a better place. Banning books would just make everything a disaster because we would not have the knowledge to make stuff including technology. We need our rights to read. Reading can increase our knowledge and the way we look at things. Just looking at technology and not being able to read to access information, would just make Americans lazy. Everyone gets their information through reading, reading is a part of life. If we can't read this world cannot function because we wouldn't get the information we need. Reading is required in many things, we read everyday. We read newspapers, articles, and even things on television. No matter what, we need reading in our daily lives. So banning books is just a terrible mistake and only going to make this world a terrible place, with people who have no knowledge of anything.

F451 & ME

The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, relates to modern America. Some us do not even stop to look around, and think to ourselves. We are too busy using technology to even look at our surroundings, sometimes we don't even socialize with others. We just do it through our phones, technology has taken over some of us.  Clarisse can relate to some of us, because we actually pay attention to our surroundings and think. Montag can be like some of us because we don't stop to think to ourselves . The dystopian world can relate to modern America because half of us in this world can be unhappy.

F451 SUMMARY PART I

So far what we have read in the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is about a character named Guy Montag. He is a firefighter who starts fires instead of stopping them. He burns book. This book is about a dystopian world, people in this book do not really have a lot of knowledge. They are just basically people who are addict4ed to technology and don't think. It seems to be that these people are not really happy.


In this book Montag meets a girl named Clarisse, he found her walking around. She was different than the others because she actually thought. She is not like everyone who actually does not stop and think about things. Clarisse isn't afraid of Montag like everyone else would be. In fact, she questioned him on whether or not he was even happy. Which actually made Montag react, he doesn't know if he is happy or not. Clarisse's family actually talks to each other unlike other families who barley say a word.


Montag has a wife named Mildred, she is a person who only thinks about herself. She is always wearing he seashells. They sleep in different beds, they are married but don't have a lot of communication like a normal relationship would. Their house is full of technology. Mildred overdosed with medication, but it seems to happen a lot in that world because the doctors said it was normal. They were not even worried, it tells a lot about the world they live in. It seems to be that people living there are unhappy.

451 QUESTIONS, 20 ANSWERS

1. I believe the author chose the "The Hearth and the Salamander”  as a title because I think he connected it to Montag because he sets fires instead of putting them out. 
2. The assumptions the reader can make is that the protagonist, likes to burn stuff. To see things change. 
3. I think the imagery is negative, because the fire hose is spitting acid like a snake; a venomous snake. 
4. I think 451 is a burins post, in which books run in that temperature. Because paper burns at that point. 
5. Clarisse actually thinks, she walks around actually looking around. Her house lights are on because her family actually talks. She is odd because she knows things. 
6. The names are significant because the name clarisse is translated into like clear, which is what her mind is like. The name Guy means Monday in German, which is the beginning of a new week. 
7. She questions if Montag is happy. Montag says he is happy, he doesn't really stop to think he just responds fast. 
8. 3 odd things is that, people don't walk around, no ones lights are on the only light is from their TV, and no one really talks at home. 
9. He thinks Clarisse is odd because she thinks, and actually has conversations. 
10. Montag realizes he isn't happy because his smile fades away. 
11. Seashells in the book are like the AirPods we have now, they allow you to listen to things. Mildred, Montag's wife uses them to listen to things. 
12. Clarisse is different because she seems like a calm girl who thinks outside the box and cares about others , unlike Mildred she seems like serious person who is self centered. 

Resources

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-fisa-renew-20170621-story.html
https://privacy.net/us-government-surveillance-spying-data-collection/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/2013/06/government-surveillance-of-citizens-raises-civil-liberty-concerns/
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/nsa-continues-violate-americans-internet-privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/surveillance-of-citizens-by-government
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964
https://www.globalissues.org/article/802/surveillance-state

CUE THEME MUSIC

In our English class we were asked to think about the central message of the book The great Gatsby. Each one of our groups had different perspectives, so here is mine. I believe the central message of the book called The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is how people in the society are all messed up to get what they can't have. They try so hard to get everything they can, just like Gatsby trying to get back Daisy, Tom cheating on Daisy and having two women by his side, like Jordan baker cheating on a golf tournament just to win .  They were all messed up, they were all liars and cheaters. This relates to the American dream, on how people do whatever they can to get what they want. They can even lie or cheat to have everything.

PREVIEW OF GATSBY ESSAY

As I read the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I saw how Gatsby's character reflected on Americans today. The way they described his desire to be with Daisy. It is similar to how Americans would do anything to get what they want. Its a way of desire, the way we all want things and think we can get it easily if we could just change the past. We Americans have an obsession to get what we want, and we think we could get it easily.  Gatsby does symbolize our American culture, he is just like us we all want things in life.


Gatsby just wanted to get everything he wanted  by using his money. He thought money was gong to get him what he wanted. Americans also think that, they think that money can solve all their problems in the world. But I believe that money is just money it sometimes cannot get you what you want in life. We are all ambitious to get everything in life. We might go through some struggles to get what we want but we try everything. Gatsby was one those people, he got money and thought it was going to get easy from there that Daisy was going to back with him easily. But he fell for that trap, Daisy at the end of the day didn't even love him anymore. He ended up dying being in love, thinking that if he could of just tried harder he would get her, that she still loved him, that what she said was not true. Money there, did not solve his ambition for love.


Americans in today's society can get what they want with money, but not always. You see, there is always going to be a struggle in life, and getting what you want is definitely harder than it seems.  I don't know why Gatsby thought it was going to be easy with the money he had. People just used him, he didn't even have anybody who really cared about him. In today's society people use you for your money so they can get what they want in life. In the same way I feel like Daisy wanted to use Gatsby, but now that she realized what she actually wanted in life, she realized she did not want Gatsby.  Gatsby was just a toy for her, she played with his feelings and told him she loved him. But Gatsby still did not understand, for some reason he thought Daisy would go back to him.


Daisy and Gatsby represent the ambitions of society today because they think getting what they want will be easy.  Everybody in this world just wants money and think that will buy them happiness. I think that's what Gatsby thought, that money would buy him happiness with Daisy. All Daisy thought about was herself. All she cared about was herself, which represents the selfishness of the society today. People in this society just think about themselves and not about the others. There is also people who make others clean up their mess, which is what Daisy does. This shows how society can be messed up just like the book "The Great Gatsby".


Overall,  the character Gatsby from the book "The Great Gatsby" reflects on American's dreams and society. It also shows how we Americans can be selfish and ambitious, and how we try to get what we want. It also shows how we think money can solve all of our problems in life.

GATSBY PROMPTS FURTHER THINKING

What is so Great about Daisy? Is she even worth everything Gatsby s going through to get her back? Is she even that great of  person? Why does Gatsby want her so bad?

I found it interesting on how Gatsby wants to bring back the past to make Daisy fall in love with him again, he really would do anything for her but why?

WHAT GATSBY SAYS TO ME

I believe the central message of  the book " The Great Gatsby" is on how love can make you go crazy and want to bring back the past.

WHAT'S SO GREAT ABOUT GATSBY

I believe that in the book  "The Great Gatsby" Gatsby is not a terrible person, but is kind of dishonest. I feel like he does to much for Daisy, and puts himself in a lot of trouble. He is not great but he is good. The narrator Nick is honestly the only one that is sort of honest. I mean he can be dishonest because he knows stuff that can change stuff for people, but he just does not do anything about it. He is a humble person. I feel like Nick hangs out with dishonest people to see new perspectives. I think Nick respects the dishonest people he hangs out with because, he respects their ideas and rumors. He doesn't like getting into drama so he does not say anything about others. I think when the author says "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made....". He means that they were people who did not care about others and only cared about themselves. that whatever mess they made, other people would have to pay the consequences they made, and they wouldn't care they would just go back to their money life. Just like when Daisy killed Mrs. Wilson, they let Gatsby suffer the consequences. I agree with how the author described Daisy and Tom, they are horrible people. I don't understand Daisy's behavior all she wants is money. Like if money was going to solve every little thing she did in life. I don't agree with her choices, I cannot believe she let Gatsby take the blame he had to pay for what she did. And she didn't even care! She's a horrible person and should have came clean.  I would not let my son/ brother/ friend date, because she is so dishonest and a horrible person. The last line of the book saying "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."  I think this means that we can't go back to the past, it brings trouble. 

GATSBY CHAPTER 9 NOTES AND THOUGHTS

In the book "The Great Gatsby" chapter 9  Gatsby had just passed  away and Nick was trying his very best to get a least one person to Gatsby's funeral. Nick couldn't get anyone, everyone didn't even care that Gatsby died. they were all so careless. the only person who showed up was Gatsby's father and the postman. After the funeral Nick was leaving to New York, because the East haunted him after Gatsby's death. Nick went to meet up with Jordan to say goodbye, he was half in love with her and angry, and very sorry for her. Then one October Nick saw Tom ,and he tried to avoid him but he ended up talking to him. Tom confessed on what he told Wilson, he said that he told Wilson that Gatsby owned the car. Tom already knew that Wilson was armed, so he had done all of this on purpose knowing Gatsby was going to end up dying. Tom had this all planned. Nick said that Daisy and Tom were careless people, that they smashed up things and creatures then went back to their money. That they let people clean up their mess.  I wished that Tom and Daisy got hat they deserved  that they got left with nothing, because it's not fair how someone has to pay for the mess they created.