Thursday, June 12, 2014

Blog Reflection: last post of the year!

Although it was challenging, having to blog every other week through the year has taught me to better plan my time and be organized in advance. When everything is in order, everything gets done with no stress needed.
Your identity is something you with hold with pride. You want everyone to know that this is who you are and it's how you're going to stay. Sometimes when you don't have as much confidence, acting like someone else makes it somewhat better. Using social media online helps people achieve this view of not being yourself. By people using social media to show themselves to the world as something that they are not makes them feel powerful eva use if the attention they get. This practice of having an "online identity"; someone who acts a certain way online to cover up their true feelings about themselves, isn't healthy. You get so custom to being that way that you lose yourself on the way. 
Based on my blog posts, I learned that while I read I analyze the parts that pop out towards me. If I believe that it will have some affect on the plot later on, I will try and figure out how or why and connect everything together. Blogging the whole year has helped me become a stronger writer. I've learned how to get straight to the point and leave out the "fluff". 
I have learned so much from blogging and am thankful that I have gotten the opportunity to do this. No matter how annoying it may have been, in the end I learned do much more than I started out with and that was my goal the entire time.

Thursday, June 5, 2014

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is the book that paints the picture of the ideal American dream. It shows how wealth and sociability consumes a person and clouds their minds. Nick the main character is living in a different reality than everyone else in east egg. His views on life are questioned when he observes the vanity of the east egg community.
The people wear invisible masks around the community. Wearing these masks cover up their pasts and their desires. This face is a total different person than what everybody knows, and the reason why it is in hiding is because they're afraid that everyone will look at them differently and they would feel like they've lost power. The less people know about you and your past the more power you have over them but once people know about you, they have the power to destroy you. 
It's a mind game that is fueled by greed and as Nick realized this he became more habitude to this way of living that he had to go back home. East egg was a different world, one that may have exposed the truth about what the American dream verily is and why it has to run off of fear and rapaciousness. How does that make you superior to anyone else?



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