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I read a book called, Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. It is about a society in which everyone turned “pretty” after their 16th birthday. Before they are 16 years old they are considered ugly. The two main characters are named Tally and Shay. Tally meets Shay and they become friends and they played a lot tricks. On the night before their birthdays (they had the same one) Shay asks Tally to run away to the Smoke. The Smoke is a place where people are all ugly but they live like normal people because they don't get the procedure to turn them pretty. Tally says no but later on this group called, Special Circumstances, questions Tally about Shay and tells her that she can’t turn pretty until she finds Shay with a note that only Tally can understand. Tally finds the Smoke but she ends up liking it. She lies to the people there until she feels like it’s her home. Special Circumstances gave her a pendant which would track her as soon as she opened it. It throws it in the fire assumi...

Of all the texts that we've read this year, which one is your favorite, and why? Which one is your least favorite, and why? My favorite text that we read this year was definitely The Great Gatsby. I liked The Great Gatsby because it is very lively and visual. I also enjoyed the movie with all of the colors and the actors. My least favorite book was The Merchant of Venice. I disliked this book because I don't understand Shakespear. To be honest I didn't really understand the book. For me it was a very bland book. The Great Gatsby and The Merchant of Venice are two very different books. In the end I prefer The Great Gatsby.

Write about anything having to do with The Great Gatsby that you have not already discussed or wish to expand upon. In other words - what interested you about this novel and what do you have to say about it? Something that I thought about while reading The Great Gatsby was the possibility of Daisy staying with Gatsby after the hotel scene. I think that it would be very different if they stayed together. I feel as if the death of Myrtle wouldn't have happened. If it did I think it would have been Tom who accidentally killed her because he would have been angered because Daisy chose Gatsby in this case. I also think that things between Gatsby and Daisy would be tense because she already stated that she loved Tom once. In conclusion, I believe that things would be more calm if Daisy stayed with Gatsby rather than Tom.

How does Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of the novel, fundamentally change over the course of the novel, and how is this change caused by the central conflict(s) that Gatsby faces? Use textual evidence to support your claim. I think that Gatsby's mood for Daisy changes over the book. In the beginning of the book he is very patient with Daisy, not to mention that he waited 5 years. Once he meets with her it is very awkward between them but Gatsby and Daisy finally get more comfortable with each other. Then his love grows more and more intense for her. Soon it becomes kind of controlling and desperate in my point of view. “Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." (7.261) I think that this quote shows how Gatsby only wanted Daisy to love him and no one else. He then gets so angry and almost hurts To...