The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Analysis

The cops judged Nick so quickly because they thought Nick was acting like his father. The cops accused Nick for murdering because of his fascination of violence. During SAR meetings he draws a lot about violence. Since Nick was accused of murder all his classmates and teachers start looking at him in a different way.

Therefore, this book is all about how stereotyping people is not a good thing, and we need to look besides them. One example is how Ana stereotypes Kim. Ana is an elderly woman who comes from Romania, who has seen many stages of Cleveland, who is friends/neighbors with Wendell. Kim is a nine year old girl from Vietnam, who is quite sad about her father’s death. Kim starts the garden, when she first plants lima beans in honor of her father, in a spot in the vacant lot.

The first example of foreshadowing comes in the first paragraph of the short story, as the grandmother is trying to convince Bailey to change the location of the vacation from Florida to Tennessee by pointing out that a criminal

"The same husband you just agreed to plot against and murder him, Mrs. Arnold?" Her whole body tenses, it´s easy to see, the colour leaves her cheeks. With the failed attemp to get rid of Hewlett once and for all, he thought it might be worth the idea to tell the Spy Hunter General of this incapable coward and that he knows about the mole, even if it would mean that he himself wouldn´t have the pleasure to kill him on his own. He found the door not proberly closed, heard the quarrel inside and stepped in.

The most apparent stereotyping in the entire book has to be with Joe and Amy. Joe is portrayed as the classic high school bad boy, he wears a bandana and a single skull earring. He drinks all the time, gets wasted at the parties and has a few brush-ins with the law. Amy on the other the hand is shown as the makeup obsessed high school slut. During the introduction of the story, her reputation of being easy is already mentioned and seems to be proven when Michael fools around with her on his birthday while his girlfriend is around. Both of these characters on the surface appear as stereotypical high schoolers. Most people in the neighborhood as well as some people at the high school label Joe as a bad kid, troublemaker, maverick, etc. While

At the beginning of the novel Nick Dunne is a married man celebrating his 5th wedding anniversary. Although his marriage was not always happy they thought they could put aside their problems for this one day. Nick owns a bar with his sister, Go. He went to the bar on the morning of their anniversary. When he went back home he found that his wife Amy was missing. He called the police and they began investigating. As they continued investing Nick revealed to the reader that he had been having an affair. Nick felt he couldn't tell the police this information because it would make him look more suspicious. The cops had figured out the crime scene had been staged and made Nick a suspect. Nick fully cooperated with the police but his nervous ticks made him seem guilty.

Imagery: “First the colors. Then the humans. That’s usually how I see things. Or at least, how I try.” (1)

the reader wanting to know what will happen to the wife. will he kill her? Foreshadowing in this story is

The first stereotypes mentioned were prostitute and whore. Whore was the name her mother was often called by her father. Another stereotype mentioned is a lesbian or

Twenty minutes later, he arrived at home, completely unaware, that he was under surveillance from three blocks away, with a pair of high-powered binoculars trained on his every movement, and walked towards their house. An idea had occurred to him on the journey, one which would make the rape fantasy he and Lila had once discussed even more intense and believable, and a smile flitted across his features when he stepped across the threshold, and his gaze located his wife.

Or ‘What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking a football all day, but can’t make round chapattis?’ her mother asks. Jess is supposed to stay covered up and not ‘running around half naked in front of men.’ According to Interaction and the Conservation of Gender Inequality: Considering Employment, by Cecilia L. Ridgeway , “it’s well documented that currently accepted gender stereotypes incorporate assumptions of men’s greater status value; that is, men’s traits are generally viewed as more valuable than women’s and men are diffusely judged as more competent”(221). However, if Jess was a boy a lot of these pressures and dilemmas wouldn’t exist. Jules’ is expected to be like all the other girls. We see this when Paula encourages Jules to buy girly bras instead of sports bras and tries to persuade her to be more feminine. They both are expected to be focused on finding a boyfriend or husband.

In response to the infidelity, Amy meticulously stages her own disappearance and creates a devious scheme to frame Nick of her murder. She goes to extreme lengths to and displays psychopathic behaviors throughout the film to assure that her “lazy, lying, cheating, oblivious husband will go to prison” for her murder and be put on death row. Amy inflicts intense emotional, mental and physical pain on Nick, and sustained self-inflicted

Nick then becomes the prime suspect in the investigation, and it becomes more and more believable as facts about their not-so-perfect marriage begin to surface. As the film progresses, it is revealed that Amy had faked

“Thank you,” whispered the detective rushing to get out of the room. While MaryJane sat in the interrogation room, thoughts of good times came to her head. The detective barged in the room instantly to tell MaryJane of their findings.

She led him up the rocks, their proximity caused the caring woman to notice how we walked with a slight limp and winced every time he leaned over. The repairs needed would have to wait, not that she had a choice. The stranger had a gun for God’s sake. It was not a long walk to the cottage and they arrived shortly. Isabelle pushed open the door, turning to look at Blue Eyes just standing outside the entrance as he observed the house cautiously. She tried her best and offered what she hoped was a reassuring smile “It’s just me here, I swear it,” Isabelle informed him.