https://padlet.com/ccunningham20221_1/u2ovwmc83tu8ms26 Great Gatsby en-us 2021-04-01 16:33:21 UTC 2021-04-29 20:15:15 UTC hello@padlet.com ccunningham20221_1 https://padlet.com/ccunningham20221_1/u2ovwmc83tu8ms26/wish/1376915958 Five words that are new to my vocabulary are:
Feigned- simulated or pretended; Insincere
She feigned excitement when she heard her least favorite aunt would be in town.
Solemn- formal and dignified
He had been working on solemn essay to get into his dream college.
Effeminate- (of a man) having or showing characteristics regarded as typical of a women; unmanly.
My grandfather grew up in a different generation, so he believes that a man that wears earrings is effeminate and is trying to be a woman.
Fractiousness- The trait of being prone to disobedience and the lack of discipline.
There was growing fractiousness at the party as the night went on.
Infinitesimal- extremely small
Most of the problems we have are infinitesimal and shouldn’t waste time and energy worrying about them.

While reading chapter one, you hear quiet a bit about a pair of eggs. “Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. they are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.“  Though The eggs are described a bit, you aren’t told exactly what they are or why they’re there. This made me wonder, are the eggs just decoration? Are they buildings that you could possibly go inside? Or maybe just a landmark so you could tell where you’re at? I guess we’ll find out as we keep reading. Lastly, one of the things I like most so far is how things are described throughout the chapter. “We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.“ I especially like the way Tom and Daisy’s home was described. Seeing how their house is described, makes me excited to see how Gatsby‘s home will be described.]]> 2021-04-01 22:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ccunningham20221_1/u2ovwmc83tu8ms26/wish/1376915958 ccunningham20221_1 https://padlet.com/ccunningham20221_1/u2ovwmc83tu8ms26/wish/1408357511 Setting]]> 2021-04-12 16:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ccunningham20221_1/u2ovwmc83tu8ms26/wish/1408357511