Great Gatsby chapter 2 notes

• Desolate- abandoned 
• Nick talks about a land that is between west egg and New York and calls it a valley of ashes
• I think that Nick calls this place a valley of ashes because maybe it does not exist anymore may it burned done and everything turned into ash
• Nick meets Tom Buchanan's mistress

GREAT GATSBY CHAPTER 1 REMIX

In chapter 1 of great Gatsby talks about the author introducing nick and he starts by talking about his situation that he moved from Midwest to west egg and talks about has nick severed in the army and has graduated and now he is going back to his house. After he gets invited to have dinner at daisy and her husbands house after nick finds out that daisy's husband is racist and aggressive

GREAT GATSBY NOTES 2

• ajar- sightly open
• gay- happy or joyful
• west egg & east egg street and  east egg is more fashionable than west egg street
• tom is horrible person
• daisy does not like tom and does not agree with what he is saying
• miss baker believed that tom was cheating on daisy with another women in new york because another women was calling him on the phone

GATSBY NOTES

• epigraph is a quote or phrase at the beginning of the book to give us a clue about the theme
• "whenever you feel like criticizing any one he told me, just remember that all people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
• i think that the narrator is talking about the lessons that his family had taught him in the past and is berly understanding them until now

REMIX OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. SPEECH

EVERYTHING IS A REMIX

• Remix- to combine or edit existing materials to prove something new
• The term remix originally applied to music
• Anybody can remix anything 
• What do we mean when we say the word remix is when you take something already existing existing and combined it with something else and create something new but can still see some peaces of the original stuff
• Remix- the arrangement and transformation of samples

MUSIC AS LITERATURE

We can describe that music as literature because they are both composed of words. We read the lyrics of a song and we also read the words in a book, poem or anything else that has to do with literature. Music and literature are both composed of a collected work of different cultural.