Yatta Times

May 1, 2020 Today has been spent with my lack of sleep due to a pretty old show I just recently picked up interest in and working on church activities we have on certain Fridays lately. This church activity was ‘t focused mainly or religious topics, but they were activities to help us pick up hobbies that we may find interesting. Such hobby activities were learning how to draw/paint, how to cook, how to play an instrument, etc. Other activities were watching films or music videos our organisation created, also, of course, short bible studies in between of a series of other activities. These were all done online and each activity had a schedule. Very funnnn Besides that, I’ve been thinking about how I should wisely spend this last full month of the school year that would keep me productive, happy, and healthy.

April 16, 2020 ”New Normal” - chaos - adjustments - routine developments Although there is chaos, we can also notice certain people supporting each other and working together, filled with love and care. Fahrenheit 451 - Montag on the run and almost gets hit by a car - Having a small silver of hope and seeing humanity - Montag wonders if those who killed Clarisse are the ones who tried to hit him with a car - Montag decides to frame Mrs. Black’s husband by going to their house and have their house to get burned down - “war” the society and any “outside thinkers” have in the book / America at war, but not knowing with who at this point - Faber guides Montag - path to take/noting that he’s in deep trouble and would die by noon - Montag gives Faber $100 to use in any way - First city name we’ve heard = “St. Louis” - Mechanical Hound following Montag along with a TV broadcast ( luckily, Montag told Faber what to do with everything he touched ) “Why would the news ma...

April 13, 2020 At first, it was a big struggle to adjust into being stuck at home although we usually wish to be able to stay at home. However, this was a struggle because the news slowly hit. My best friends and I were planning to have big fun for the last three days that we had left before the lockdown, but it was cancelled. That fun getting ruined kind of hit us pretty hard because we treated the news as if we were never seeing each other ever again, and basically that’s what happened. As you and probably many know, I started wearing a masks on a daily basis about 2 weeks or more before the lockdown. At the start, the reason for that was “the air”, my parents said. I always had the case of having bad lungs or weak immune system, but not too bad where I needed to have an inhaler with me everywhere. I’ve always been wearing masks when I would live and visit Asia because it is very polluted there. They probably noticed that it’s been smelling like something is being cooked those days...

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The ideas about what the central message of The Great Gatsby talked about in class were all good ones, and somehow similar but explained in multiple ways. Our group said, “The central message is to live in the moment because the past cannot be changed to obtain the American Dream.” As an American Dream, it can be starting anew, but for the book, or Gatsby specifically, it is Daisy. As for me, I believe that the central message is about not being able to move on from any happenings that occurred in the past and constantly having the strong desire to correct that past during the present time and hoping to continue fixing it in the future. That was what Gatsby, impressing Daisy in the present time to replace the happenings from the past. Maybe the saying “love is blind” does go along well with this book as well because the one time Daisy caused that accident, Gatsby decided to take the blame because he loves Daisy that much.

The last line of the book is arguably the most important: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.”  How does this line embody the thematic conflict that defines  The Great Gatsby ? Pretty much every human being have wished to alter or relive the past do to various reasons, and that arguably important last line in the book relates to that. The saying of not being able to start a new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one is somewhat a connection or behind explanation to it. Finishing  The Great Gatsby , us readers know that Jay Gatsby continued to impress the girl he had a “romantic connection” with from the past, when in the present time, she is already married. One more point is the country he is living in is known as the dreamlike place where many can start over, not knowing reality from dreams. Reading on, we find that Gatsby's dream is not surprisingly Daisy. In the quoted line, “So we beat on,.....