The Great Gatsby by KYMBERLY WOOD https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3 Made with a dash of smartness en-us 2019-02-25 14:21:45 UTC 2025-09-28 19:55:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png Important Quote griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334860861 "Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."]]> 2019-02-25 14:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334860861 Tone griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334863921 "No—Gatsby turned
out all right at the end..."
Mysterious ]]> 2019-02-25 14:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334863921 Important Quote woodk4 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334864634 "..as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
This quote is referring to how Gatsby is registered to the promises of life. ]]> 2019-02-25 14:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/334864634 Characters loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/337457993 2019-03-04 14:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/337457993 Symbols griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340380038 2019-03-12 12:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340380038 Setting griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340382687 2019-03-12 13:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340382687 Character isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340397602 "I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

He had finally started living, and he wasn't lonely anymore as he was talking and helping this guy.]]> 2019-03-12 13:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340397602 Character isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340403425 (I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people
lean toward her)

Daisy had a way with words and charm to control you.]]> 2019-03-12 13:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/340403425 Speakeasy douglasa2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342824208 (during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.]]> 2019-03-19 13:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342824208 Bootlegging loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342824583 The people who illegally made, imported, or sold alcohol while it banned ]]> 2019-03-19 13:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342824583 Model T woodk4 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825027 2019-03-19 13:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825027 Phonograph douglasa2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825139 a record player.]]> 2019-03-19 13:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825139 Cotton Club woodk4 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825628 in 1920, Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion opened the club then in 1923, Owney Madden took over operations and renamed it "Cotton Club." ]]> 2019-03-19 13:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825628 Henry Ford douglasa2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825735 The founder of the Ford Motor Company.]]> 2019-03-19 13:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342825735 Jazz Age loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826334 a post-World War I movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged.]]> 2019-03-19 13:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826334 Prohibition douglasa2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826600 He prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.]]> 2019-03-19 13:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826600 Harlem Renaissance loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826802 an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. ]]> 2019-03-19 13:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342826802 Great Migration loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342827707 the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West]]> 2019-03-19 13:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342827707 Assembly Line douglasa2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342828011 a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.]]> 2019-03-19 13:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342828011 The Great War woodk4 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342828435 Soldiers who fought in the First World War, then called "The Great War" survived and came home with injuries to the mind and body. ]]> 2019-03-19 13:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/342828435 Jazz Age griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343752179 Jazz music exploded as popular entertainment in the 1920s and brought African-American culture to the white middle class.

]]> 2019-03-21 12:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343752179 Model T griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343754644 AKA "Tin Lizzie"
The Model T was an automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Between 1913 and 1927, Ford factories produced more than 15 million Model Ts.]]> 2019-03-21 12:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343754644 Speakeasy griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343756555 They would put water in the alcohol to sell it in larger quantities. "Smoke", made of pure wood alcohol, killed or maimed thousands of drinkers. To hide the taste of poorly distilled whiskey and “bathtub” gin, speakeasies offered to combine alcohol with ginger ale, Coca-Cola, sugar, mint, lemon, fruit juices and other flavorings, creating the “cocktail” in the process.    ]]> 2019-03-21 13:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/343756555 Quote isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352273392 'You know I love you, she murmured.'
-Daisy to Gatsby]]> 2019-04-17 13:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352273392 Tom vs. Gatsby & Daisy isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352274876 "He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife. No one moved."
He had told them that they were all going to town, but they just were staring at each other not making a move.]]> 2019-04-17 13:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352274876 Chapter 7: The Breakup of Daisy and Tom isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352281606 Daisy doesn't love Tom anymore, and Gatsby tells Tom that he won't be caring for her any longer.]]> 2019-04-17 13:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352281606 Chapter 7: The Accident of Myrtle isbellk1 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352284689 Myrtle was hit by a yellow car, and was dead on instant.]]> 2019-04-17 13:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352284689 Chapter 7 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352299473 "He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. 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." 

Tom makes it seem like it was okay for him to cheat because he actually loves Daisy. ]]> 2019-04-17 14:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352299473 Chapter 7 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352301575 "next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."

When Tom says this, it shows a little more about his character. Not only is he having a bad temper but he is also being racist. ]]> 2019-04-17 14:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352301575 Chapter 7 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352302313 "Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small, reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before."

Gatsby is once again thinking about his past because he is now seeing Daisy's child that is not his. While Gatsby was busy living in the past, Daisy was busy focusing on the future. ]]> 2019-04-17 14:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352302313 Chapter 7 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352303504 "Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was."

Nick for sure is wanting us to like Gatsby. The fact that he owned up and takes the blame shows that he is a good person. ]]> 2019-04-17 14:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352303504 Chapter 7 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352306537 "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"

"Don't be morbid," Jordan said. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

Daisy might be trying to ask who will she end up with after all this, Tom or Gatsby. Also for Daisy life is meaningless and boring while Jordan sees life as
]]> 2019-04-17 14:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/352306537 Chapter 9 loweryj2 https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353348429 "I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marveling over Gatsby’s books
in the library one night three months before." 

The owl-eyed man came to Gatsby funeral when hardly no one else did]]> 2019-04-23 13:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353348429 Chapter 8 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353597565 "They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

Even though Tom and Daisy were born with money, they weren't "worth" anything but Nick wants us to think that even though Gatsby didn't inherit the money, he was worth something to him at least. ]]> 2019-04-24 02:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353597565 Chapter 8 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353599574 "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete" 

At first I thought this had a different meaning having to do with the Holocaust from WW2 but after researching further, this book was two decades before that. Although, the mention of the word "holocaust" I think does have a significant meaning or deeper meaning. The word actually means "mass destruction" which could suggest that the "American Dream" was also destroyed at this time. ]]> 2019-04-24 02:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353599574 Chapter 9 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353600270 Tom and Daisy left which proved that money can't buy you love. Just because Gatsby got rich and even moved right next door to the women she loved, or as I would say the girl he was infatuated with, he still ended up without her in the end. ]]> 2019-04-24 02:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353600270 Chapter 9 griera https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353601200 Before the valley of ashes, there was just "green, empty land." Just like before Daisy got married with a kid, she and Gatsby were supposed to be together. Now that he is all of a sudden back didn't mean that things would go back to the way it was. What they had was destroyed by time that passed by when he was gone.]]> 2019-04-24 03:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/353601200 SPREAD THE LOVE https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/588003758 2020-05-21 22:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/woodk4/2xdaamc3h9y3/wish/588003758