Response

In the story they show that even though the country is in a depression they are still having a good time and not everybody is broke. The party shows people in the worst part of their lives having a good time. Even though they are broke and probably close to being homeless they still can have a good time. Mr. Gatsby is one of those people who weren't effected badly by the depression because he had such luxurious things.

This is a huge example of the jazz age theme because people were doing things such as drinking which was illegal at the time because of prohibition. Even thought drinking was illegal they still had a great time drinking and partying alone. The author speaks about how you could tell that the thought of illegal drinking was in no ones mind when he says that "the bar was in full swing and cocktails permeate the garden outside". In mind the author was saying that the guest was saying hey we don't care that drinking is illegal, the country is in a depression and we're going to have fun regardless. The jazz age theme is all through this story because it shows people having a great time during the worst time of their life.

gatsby's party

In this story the author talks about a man who throws huge parties were almost every one in the country attend. His name is Gatsby and he is extremely wealthy and in some ways shows it off. The author talks about how you would see him in his Rolls Royce or his many servants doing work in his home, his garden, and carrying out huge crates of oranges and limes.

One night the author is invited to one of his parties and when he arrives he see's that it is alive and full of people. He walks around and runs into a woman named Jordan Baker and two twins. Ms. Baker is a golfer and the twins are some sort of musicians. As they carry on the conversation they start to say that they heard certain things about their host. One says that they heard that he was a German spy during the war. This topic is quickly put to an end and they go on with the party. After a while the author starts a conversation with a man and soon realizes that he is the one hosting the party. After they talk a while Mr. Gatsby goes into his home and the author continues his conversation with Ms.Baker.

A little while later Mr. Gatsby asks that Ms.Baker come and see him inside his house. She leaves and the author sits alone in the garden drinking Champaign. After a few minutes he follows the life of the party inside and realizes that it is also crowded in there. Before he leaves he runs into the two again and the share their good byes. When he gets outside he realizes that a man who is drunk has driven into a ditch. Ready to get home because he is tired he continues into the house and calls it a night.

Incident

In this poem I think at te time the author was disilusionted about going to Boston, because it seemed like he was so excited about going to the big city as if he was going to be treated like he was equal. But when he got there a white kid stuck his tounge out at him and called him a nigger. This in a way stuck out in his mind for a long time and is something that he will never foget, because the idea he had about going to the big city was completly wrong.

Mending Wall

In the poem Building wall it displays the element of disillusion because the characters both are seeing something in a way that it really isn't. One of them says that "a good wall makes a good neighbor", but this is not true for the simple fact that they work on this wall at least once a year and that’s the only time they see each other. If the fence was good and they didn’t have to work on it then they would in a way be strangers because they would never see each other. The other neighbor says that he really doesn't care about it because he feels that they would be good neighbors anyway. Once again this is not true because if there was no fence then there would be nothing to bring them together to interact in the spring time.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

In this poem the author is referring to things that black people did before any white people were around. He speaks that his ancestors bathed in the Euphrates River and that’s were scientist believed the first people began, that the Egyptians who were responsible for the great pyramids were in Africa and were black. All that he is saying is that a lot of the great wonders of the world were seen by black people way before any type of white man. This poem is an element from the Harlem Renaissance because he is expressing the African American culture and how rich it is.

A Dream Differed

This poem is a piece of modernism because it is showing the element of disillusion. The reason I say this is because the author is showing that the American Dream is not what everybody thinks it is. That some people who are doing good think that everybody else is also, but this is not the case because a lot of African Americans had to put their dreams on hold and the longer it stays on hold the more rotten it gets. The author says in one part "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun"? He also is saying that the longer it sits it starts to loose everything about itself.

Richard Corey

In this poem there is a man named Richard Corey who looks as he has everything going on in his life. When ever people see him he looks all together and as if he doesn't have any worries. Later on one evening he goes home and kills himself. In this poem I think the author is using the element of disillusion, because he makes everyone look at this guy and think something else but really there is a problem in his life. The author makes him look like a person that everybody wants to be even though they only see what he is like in public.