Homework for Lesson #13, The Great Gatsby

James' Homework:

In The Summer’s Time

The sun is shining, the clock is ticking.

All my friends, go out picnicking.

Sharing their pictures online as funny.

But I download all of them for envy.

Only I stay at home, look at the paper, hold a pen.

Wondering when my summer begin.

The sun is shining, the phone is ringing.

All my friends, ask me joining.

Jump from the edge of my seat,

Pack my things and take some sweet.

Tear the paper, broke the pen

Shout out loud I’ll play to ten.

The sun is shining, the wind is breezing.

Finish the burger, then go to the shore.

Take off the shirt, the wind is freezing.

Jump into the water, enjoy the cool.

Feel like flying over the sky, even I’m just lie on my side.

Swim in the river, wonder where the fish is heading for.

The sun is shining, the rain is dropping.

Rush to the bank, find clothes is missing.

Stay and hide in the grass, prying anyone who comes.

Wait for the thief appear, ready to beat him to tears.

The sun is shining, the river is flowing.

No one comes, and no one appear.

Only birds stand on the trees, laugh at us who are bare.

The sun is not shining, the night is coming.

Find out the clothes, dropped into the water.

Make them dryer and put them on.

Rush back home and take a shower.

Warm myself and then sit down.

And my shirt still has the smell of flower.

Jesse's Homework:

“This is gonna to be the most boring book read!” I thought as a flipped through the first few pages. The great Gatsby is a famous book through out the history of literature, but some how, as far as the few pages I’ve read, I just don’t get the point. Maybe that’s because this book was pretty old, and the language in it was very complicated, which makes some of them unfamiliar to me, and I was like reading a sanskrit book. But as pages I read accumulate, I started to understand the fact which it’s one of the most famous book through out the literature history.

From page 1-5, I didn’t understand 99% of them, honestly. All the things that Francis Scott Fitzgerald talked about, as I saw by my own eyes, are very chaotic: east egg, prominent family, Finnish woman or the strangest community. And so that makes a problem for me to understand the rest of the story. I think books like the catcher in the rye is also very ancient, or even older than the great Gatsby, though it’s easier to understand. Which makes me again question the prominence of this book in the history.

I got to understand the rest of the story from page 6-14, which is the place I started to understand the importance of it. The author depicted the scene that Nick went to a estate that belongs to one of his relatives that he rarely know and had dinner with them, which the contradicts occurs, and the story, as for me, began. I like the way how Francis Scott Fitzgerald described the extravagant of the palace, and the beautiful scenery around it, it seemed so real that I can almost see it in front of me, and their actions, it’s so realistic. 

Francis Scott Fitzgerald don’t just explain the person’s personality, he did by describing the person’s action, and emotion, which is a professional ability for a writer, and it indicates that he was very excellent at writing. So far, I think he is a very good writer, and this is a very good book, I have to admit I’m probably wrong at first.