Thursday, 28 February 2013

Catcher in the Rye

This post is about The Catcher in the Rye. It is one of the rare best selling books that is not made into a film ( So don't search for a The Catcher in the Rye movie because there would be nothing ). It was not made into a film because the creator did not allow it,  but he did not allow it to be a film because he really hated movies ( WEIRD! ). It is really weird because I never heard of a person that does not like movies, this is the only person I know that hates movies at all ( SUPER WEIRD! ). I did not tell you the writer's name, well, now I am going to tell you his name, it is J. D. Salinger and the J. D. stands for Jerome David.

The Catcher in the Rye is about Holden Caulfield, the main man of the story. He gets expelled from a private school called Pencey Prep ( weird name ) and then comes back to his home in New York where he tries to make someone to listen to him for a few days. Holden is also scared to become an adult ( Holden is only sixteen years old and in four years he is becoming an adult ) but the bad thing is that he can't stop being an adult, he can never stop it. That is why he is really worried because you can't stop being an adult and being an adult is harder than being a teenager or being a child, because, you have to do work and get money and almost everything is complicated ( super complicated ), but the good thing is that you can have children and be proud about it.

The writer hates movies so much that Holden, the main character of this book says, "If there is one thing I hate it is the movies" ( LOL ) that is how much he hates movies. Almost nobody hates movies, like there should be at least one movie one person likes, like I like some movies and you probably like some movies, maybe the writer of the book did not like movies because movies in those days were bad. In the very first page of the novel Holden calls his brother a prostitute. Holden tried throwing a snowball at a white car and then he did not hit it because he says it looked so nice and white. In the book there is no action, ( no guns sorry ). Holden wants to stop time because he does not want to be any older and do complicated stuff and then he thought about the museum and then he said "the best thing in that museum is that everything stayed right were it was".

Salinger fought in World War II and that is long ago. He did not die in the war, he died of something else ( I don't know how he died but I know he did not die in the war, if you know how he died please tell me in the comments ). He died a few years ago ( remember this post was made at 2013 ). A lot of people think the catcher in the rye is a good book but some people think it is a bad book. You might not like it, but maybe you do, I don't know if you like it because there are always different people reading this post. Salinger made some other books, a lot of other books, some of them are long like this one but some are shorter than others and some are longer than others, he made some stories but he did not publish some.

Some people in real life don't want to be an adult, because well everything is hard and you have to work and sometimes, work is hard. Do you know normally the harder the work is  the more money you get but you can't get money without work. Working is sometimes tiring and if it is too hard you will become worried and becoming worried makes you feel really weird and the feeling is really annoying. Everyone doesn't like the feeling and you not only have to work you also have to do other stuff like buy food and stuff and other stuff and if you want to get some food and if you want some food and some other stuff. You need money and if you want money you need a job and everything is complicated, so some people don't want to be an adult. Any way this is the end of my post.

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

The Great Gatsby Part 2

This post is about the Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby was almost two hundred pages long and it will take a few hours to read. Any way time to talk about the story, Gatsby liked Daisy and he wanted Daisy to say that she never loved Tom at all ( but Daisy did like Tom ). Gatsby wanted to go back five years ago where Daisy was still single and he would try to marry her at her house. Nick's response to this as he say "you can't repeat the past" and then Gatsby says his famous line "can't repeat the past? why of course you can", but at the end of the story Daisy does not get married because he is already married to Tom and they have a daughter. Gatsby did not really care about their daughter, if she died he would not care much because he only cared about Daisy.

Everyone in the Great Gatsby are rich, but Tom is the richest of all and his parties are horrible because everyone are jealous that all the money he has. Gatsby's parties are great because he has the same amount of money as the other normal rich people, the only person in Gatsby's party that does not drink alcoholic drinks is Gatsby, everyone else does. Tom and Daisy are careless people, Nick says " They were careless people they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness". The Great Gatsby was made at April ten, nineteen twenty five, it was made almost ninety years ago, it is an old book. The book is probably older than you, it is older than me, (DUH!) it is older than almost everyone alive right now, only old men are older than the Great Gatsby.

Daisy and Tom don't really care about Gatsby or their daughter, they are really careless. They were careless because they were rich, because if they broke something they could pay for it. If they were less rich they would care more about things, they brake something they just buy a new thing but the thing might not be the same. Tom and Daisy don't even care about each other. Everyone wants a care-free life but the book shows the horror of having a care-free life. Gatsby is a little bit careless, he cares about people except for Tom and Daisy's daughter but almost everyone else. In real life some rich people are careless but not all are. An annoying thing about rich careless people are, if they like to break your computer they will try to buy a new computer but you will have to download some of your stuff again.

Gatsby thinks that if he wants a beautiful future he needs have a beautiful past and that is normally true, but sometimes a beautiful past can become a horrible future. The creator of the Great Gatsby is called F. Scott Fitzgerald. He and his wife were buried with each other and did you know that the final sentence of the Great Gatsby is actually on their grave. There are some films of the Great Gatsby, they made four movies right now and they are still making another one that is coming out at this year at may 10. The first film is really old, it is actually lost, it was made in 1926 and all the actors are probably dead because they had that movie a long time ago but all the other movies are not lost. The only lost one is the oldest one, it was made before you were born (that is a wild guess).

Sunday, 10 February 2013

The Great Gatsby

This post is about the great Gatsby. First I am going to talk about the characters, the narrator is Nick Carraway, Nick grew up in the Midwest and later he moved to New York's west egg and then something happened and then he moved back to the Midwest, Nick is also rich, he is rich because he had a rich ancestor who paid someone to serve in the civil war in his behalf and that allowed Nick's ancestor to spend the civil war making money. Another character is Gatsby and we learn nothing about him in chapter one. Another character is Daisy Buchanan and she is Nick's distant cousin who lives across the bay from Gatsby and Nick, Daisy is really rich, she is too rich, thanks to her marriage to Tom Buchanan and Nick describes him as "one of those men who achieved such an acute, limited excellence at twenty one that everything afterwards savors of anti-climax.

Now I am going to talk about the story, Daisy and Tom ask Nick to come over to dinner and Jordan Baker is also there and they have a horrible party. There is a moment when John says "Were Nordics and we've produced all the things that make a civilization" but none of those people have produced anything. They did not cook the food and they did not even light their own candles. Daisy also talks about her butler that he used to polish silver for a big family in the city. Whenever Nick starts a party with Tom, the parties are always horrible but at Gatsby's house there are always good parties and once when one person was going home on his car he is drunk and then he gets in a accident after a few seconds after starting the car and even though one wheel is off he still tries to drive it.

Gatsby met Daisy before and he liked Daisy but he might of liked her mansion more than he liked Daisy but later they met again and Gatsby had a house of his own, he also has a car and it is gold, pretty much everything Gatsby had was gold, but Daisy already had a husband later. Gatsby always looks at a green light at the end of Daisy's dock, Gatsby wants to get to that green light and if he can he believes that he might get the girl that he likes and the life he wanted, Nick called the green light an enchanted object and this is true because everyone has a enchanted object in live. Gatsby had gold stuff because gold is the color of wealth and beauty, it is because well real gold is really rare in real life because you have to look for it under ground.

Tom always makes horrible parties because everyone wants the wealth that Tom has, because he was crazy rich. Gold and Yellow are enchanted colors in Gatsby and almost everything he was is gold or yellow. In The Great Gatsby gold is not only the color of wealth it is also the color of death. When Daisy and Gatsby meet again nick while telling the story he describes some flowers and he says that they smell like pale gold and that does not even make any sense, almost nobody knows what he means because what does pale gold mean. Gold is one of the colors that are in the great Gatsby because gold is the color of the rich, it is the color of the rich because well gold is rare to find and it stays forever if nobody tries to destroy it, it was less rare before but now it is a lot rarer.





Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Romeo and Juliet Part 2

This post is a part two of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet had sex, even though they are young. Romeo and Juliet even got married the day after they met. Normal people will not marry each other that fast because it is just one day. They got punish for doing both of those and the punishment was death. When Romeo and Juliet got married they were happy but later they were really worried because their families hate each other, they hate each other a lot. The families even kill each other, they did not care that much because they hate each other, they never got along until Romeo and Juliet died. Both of the families are not good, they are bad, the two families always fight each other, all of the family members might been scared because there are enemies and they do not know if they will attack or not.

Romeo was weird because when he went to the party he was in love with a girl and he said he will never love any other girl but later Romeo meets Juliet then he falls in love with her. When Romeo thinks Juliet is dead he kills himself and then Juliet woke up and killed herself. When the families came up they were surprised and they stopped fighting. The ending is not good or bad because two young people die but the families become friends. The way Juliet's cousin died was because Romeo had a duel with him and Romeo won. Romeo killed him because he killed Romeo's best friend Mercutio and he wanted revenge so he killed him, ( Juliet's cousin is called Tybalt ). Juliet's parents wanted her to marry Paris, but Juliet already married Romeo so she drank a sleeping potion and after that Paris comes and he thinks she is dead and then Romeo comes and then kills Paris then the double suicide happens.

Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo because he knows that he likes Juliet and Tybalt does not want Romeo to like Juliet because both of the families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet were the only people that liked each other in the two families. It was not a good idea for Romeo to marry someone in just one day and it was a bad idea to marry someone that your family is enemies with. They kept it a secret for a long time, Tybalt was the only one to know that they liked each other, but then nobody knew that they liked each other because Tybalt was killed. The first girl Romeo liked was Rosaline and she was the cousin of Juliet. The whole story lasts four days. Romeo was married with Juliet for three days then they died but at the story Romeo did not see Juliet much because he ran away when he killed Tybalt.

If Romeo and Juliet did not get married they might survived, but they got married and then everything became bad. Romeo killed two people but he did not want to kill Tybalt because he is part of Juliet's family but he killed Paris because he started fighting Romeo so he had to protect himself. Romeo was not like the other members of his family because he liked someone that the other members of the family hate, the same as Juliet. Almost all the members of Romeo's family killed people, the same is to Juliet's family. Juliet was one of the rare people in the story that did not kill anyone. Romeo and Juliet was one of the best love stories in the world, but that is what most people say but some people says its not.

The first several acts of Romeo and Juliet is like a comedy but later it gets sadder. The last part of Romeo and Juliet is the saddest part of the story because the two main characters kill themselves. The start is a comedy because boy marries the wrong girl and have sex with her and then they have to find out what to do. They were stupid to have sex and get married the next day because they do not even know each other much, they did not care even though their families are always fighting and killing each other. Any way this is the end of my post.