Reservation vs Rearden

In the book, the reservation is a negative place for Junior. The way I see it, Rearden is a better place for Junior rather then the reservation. At the reservation, all Junior had was violence, bad memories, and bullying. Since he was born different from others with water in his head and extra teeth, he has been the "retard" that everyone on the rez picks on. not only kids even older adults pick on him too. This is because they are all miserable and have given up, so they have nothing better to do but spread their depression. When Junior goes to Rearden he is called by his real name "Arnold" and everyone respects him. They don't respect him at first but they do after a while of getting used to the new kid. He gets a girlfriend who happens to be the most popular girl in the school, Penelope. He gets a group of popular friends like Roger and his friends. People stick up for him when the teacher made a racist joke. When at the rez, he's nothing but a punching bag, but at Rearden, he's a popular respected kid.

Max's Speech

In Book 3 after Bigger is caught and the court wants him to confess, Jan has brought Max, a lawyer who will help work on Bigger's case for free. Jan might as well help Bigger because the communists are also tied into the situation. In court Max delivers a very important speech, he gives insight on a different view of the situation. Everyone is always talking about how it was the black's who have done wrong and it's their fault, but Max tells the side of how it could be the whites to blame. He tells the court about how it was the fear of being black and how they were treated by the white people which caused Bigger to do what he has done. He wants to show that it isn't Bigger's fault, and there is something to be said about the racism and discrimination towards blacks which caused the death of Mary Dalton. I personally liked his speech because it's things like this which help break barriers. It would be something like this that would make change in the world and it helps people realize themselves, because most of the time people are too busy pointing fingers that they don't see themselves.

Green Lights, Yellow Cars, and Church Steeples

In the Great Gatsby colors seem to be a big part of the story. Many different colors have different meanings that play roles in the story.

The green light seen at the end of Daisy's dock represents the American dream of Americans who are rising in the economy and getting richer. As we know money is green and in The Great Gatsby we see many characters around us in high class fancy environments. Gatsby a more notable one, throws grandiose parties with fresh fruits, a live orchestra, alcohol, and many other luxuries only the wealthy have.





Gatsby's yellow car, or his clown car relates to the American dream because a part of being wealthy is owning many expensive products one of which is a fancy car, or in Gatsby's case many fancy cars. His yellow Rolls Royce is a very iconic car because of it's bright yellow color which announces his arrival where he goes. Gatsby wanted to use his bright car to attract daisy and to show her that now he is very rich.

In the story there is a line "There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour." With some research we find out that Kant was a German philosopher who liked to stare at a church steeple which helped him think and solve problems. Like Kant, Nick is also very philosophical always paying attention to his surroundings and thinking about others.