James Lynch 12/21/16

James Lynch

Mr. Rivers

CP English 11

12/21/16

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Today in class, we kicked off class with an astonishing talk about what happened in the chapter six of The Great Gatsby. We talked about good fortune and bad fortune throughout the book. After this we broke off into our lovely groups that our lovely teacher, Mr. Rivers, chose for us. In these groups we chose four event/quotes from the story of Gatsby’s youth and plotted Gatsby’s status during each event. After this we talked about whether Gatsby embody the American Dream or not. And then we talked about what the depiction says about the American Dream. We then got back the sharing what each group got as a class. We talked about how Jay Gatsby started from the bottom of status, with not a lot of money, and earned his way to the top of status. He had bad fortune growing up due to his poor legacy of unsuccessful and shiftless farm parents.

Gatsby used to be a clam digger, and our class disgusted why the fact the he was a clam digger made him at the bottom of status. After we talked about that, we talked about how he made it to the top, just like Drake.