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“A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely”.(46)
Janie’s exhusband, Logan, is a no good man who is ugly and disgusting, she is only with him  because her grandmother thought his wealth would take good care of Janie but when Joe comes along she feels the [...]

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“You know honey us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular”(16).
Janie’s grandma is very worried for her. She knows death is right around the corner and Janie has no one to take care for her. She wants her to marry a rich white man, [...]

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We are only three chapters into the book and we finally meet the great Gatsby, unlike Moby Dick we had to wait 100 and something chapters to get a feeling of Moby Dick. In this chapter we clearly see that Gatsby (by the way his first name is Jay) is the man because he throws [...]

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In chapter two a lot of character interaction is happening with Nick meeting Tom’s girl and chilling at her crib. Once again we are reminded of how the vasts amounts of money these people especially if look at Mrs. Wilson who is a perfect example to describe the capitalist american: she changes clothes everytime she dines, [...]

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After finally getting through Moby Dick, my head doesn’t hurt as much and things are starting to go well especially with the new arrival of the Great Gatsby and its story about the journey of Nick and Mr. Gatsby his next door neighboor living in a big mansion. While reading half way through I got my [...]

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So, there are a lot of things going on right now, but the chapter that has captivated me was chapter 113 about the making of the “special” harpoon made nails from race horse shoes, his razors and blood from three men. Then he says “Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli” [...]

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I would have to say that I liked enjoyed reading, maybee its because I’m on a good mood. Chapter one hundred was very interesting when Ahab meets the English captain. As usual Ahab asks about Moby Dick, though the captain has seen Moby Dick he also tells him that he lost his arm because of Moby Dick but because the captain isn’t dumb or crazy. He has cleverly decided [...]

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Becasue the book is wrtten by Herman Mellville, we once again get a full manual about cutting, cooking and getting the whale oil out. But while I was reading this ”interesting” catalog something really gross came up on chapter 95 that talked about the whales’s penis and how it can be compared to how clergymen dress. I don’t think [...]

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It is very clear that in these chapters, these is very little action going on. Ishmael just talks about captain Ahab and the strifle with Moby Dick. How they plan to get to it and that Moby Dick destoyed all Ahab’s boats and made him suffer a lot which is most likely why he gained [...]

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Unlike any other chapters we have read, these were the chapters that Mellville just goes on talking about whales with no actual relation to the plot. He includes a lot of information about many whales and how a whale is not a fish because it is warm blodded and has lungs.  Only on chapters 29 and 30 he [...]

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