Where would I be...?

If I were to go somewhere in the snap of my fingers, it would be Candy Island with my BEHEMOTH CHICKENS. With Lord Waffle KONE in the backseat of my Monster MINIVAN OF DOOM!

The whole island is made of candy, like the bushes are cotten candy, the vines of the trees are twizzlers, and the water would be soda. I mean, everything would be made of candy! My chickens would survive because they adapted to their new environment and can live off of sweets, although they do get fat, but they get excessive exercise after eating. Lord Waffle KONE, well... Let's just say he's got H.I.Chairs. Don't ask me what it is because he wouldn't tell me about it xP

Great Gatsby Essay

Monika Aldrich
3/3/11

Period 4

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showed how human peer pressure and emotion affects others in the high society world that the characters in the book perceive. This book I have read last year doesn't catch my attention and becomes emotional at the most awkward times. One scene in the book that relates to me was when Gatsby was reaching out for Daisy, the green light from her dock. It reminds me how my beloved is so close, yet far from where I am. Although, Gatsby's yearning for Daisy is more stronger and emotional, I feel that that scene is meaningful in my life.

"...Nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock." Page 21

The characters in the book when they went to town to cool off and end up fighting reminds me of my family before it broke up. I guess you can say that this specific scene caused bad memories to pop up within me. Besides that, everyone has their own problems to deal with.

"Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." Page 131

This quote was said by Tom when confronting Gatsby about Daisy's situation. Another bad memory reminds me of this. Not only that, the world that Gatsby lives in is tainted with rich snobs and their money hungry attitudes. Although Nick compliment Gatsby once, he felt that Gatsby was better than the rest of the crowd that surround him. The story is very emotional in a way that Fitzgerald describes Gatsby's life.