I chose to write about the Jazz Age. I chose the topic because it seems interesting the gangsters, the use of alcohol, and the music. I also can just visualize the moments and the lifestyle of that time.The Camel's Back by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Story was about a man named Perry Pankhurst who was in love with Betty Medill. He tries to marry her but she refuses to marry him because she isn't really sure about tying the knot right now. so Perry Storms off through the night just wondering around till he bumps into a strange man that offers him a drink. Perry is like sure what have i got to lose. he wasn't planning on going to any more parties because he did that all the time, but after drinking he changes his mind constantly.So there is this circus ball that he wants to attend. he was pretty sure the woman he loved was going to be there but it didn't matter. so he goes to this costume shop to get an costume for the party what he wants has all ready been rented to other people. so the employee introduces him to this camel suite. he likes it but can find a partner. The fact that he couldn't find a partner made him very sad and delusional so by now he's having flashbacks of Betty. so he gets in this cab and on the way to the wrong party he offers the cab driver a sum of money to be in the suite with him. The Cab driver refuses heavily because he figured he would lose his job by partying. He soon agrees and now they arrive to the wrong party but a local friend of Mr. Pankhurst. a little commotion gets stirred but soon everyone realizes it's Perry so they start back partying. The friend invites Perry and his companion to the circus ball the party he was meant to go to so Perry agrees to go with Mr. and Mrs. Tate. They arrive at the circus ball and he sees his love flirting with every guy in the party this makes him really mad but he knows he lose his cool because he don't want anyone to notice that's it's him in the camel suite. not because he's embarrassed or anything he just has this master plan to get his love back. so he dances over all cool and slick trying to get her attention and does, they dance and had a little talk. she wants the man in the camel to tell her she's pretty and just amuse her. This makes Perry so mad because the woman he loves is flirting with people she really don't know then she thought he was some one else out of town visiting the Tate's. so the conversation is over and they party, but soon it's time for the awards to be passed one goes to the snake charmer which is Betty Medill and the Camel with is Perry. as for the Ritual they are supposed to get married just by the Circus Ball standards. So this guy named Jumbo just a normal guy but funny is suppose to be the priest. Jumbo asked Perry do he has his marriage license but since this is a fake wedding it can be a piece of paper or anything. so perry digs through his pants and finds a piece of paper but little does he know that it's the actual marriage license that he presented to Betty when he asked her to marry him. Then Jumbo ask for the ring instead of Mr. Perry having one he forces to the cab driver to take his off or he'll kill him the cab driver is so scared that he does it. so he puts the ring on the snake charmers finger and as soon as they are about to kiss Jumbo realizes that its an actual marriage license and addresses it out loud. He read the names on the paper which were Perry and Betty Pankhurst she is astonished and so is the crowd. so there is the silence in the party and she breaks it by asking him to take off the camel head and having 5 minutes of alone time to talk. He agreed. Now their talking in this secluded hallway and she is basically telling him she doesn't want him and why would he stoop so low to marry her. He didn't plan on it though it just happened but he doesn't get the chance to say that because she is constantly running her mouth. so Perry interrupts her by telling her OK i will renounce our wedding even though it was actually fake but the marriage license all so real. The Cab driver finally speaks and say your my wife too you know. she is like who said that. But she thinks the cab driver is blind and deaf because perry told her that. so the cab driver say you didn't just get married to the head of the camel but the whole camel and perry agrees to that so he states that I'm heading west and I'm going to let you be with your husband if you need me i will be headed west kept repeating himself to make her feel bad. He grabs the door knob to leave but she stops him to tell she love him and she wants to go too.The story involves a lot of things that relate to the Jazz age philosophy. It involved Bootlegger's and Alcohol. "The Towns ends had determined to assure their party of success, so a great quantity of liquor had been surreptitiously brought over from their house and was now flowing freely". The after hours partying at secluded locations "The circus ball was in full swing." I think Fitzgerald was trying to say that America was not a land of opportunity and equal respect. For example the cab driver couldn't earn any respect because he was a black male. He couldn't Show his face no where till he was away from the people in the party.
Richard Corey:The people in the poem think that the man named Richard Covey is doing good but doesn't realize that even if your rich and famous you still can have problems.The poor people wants to be just like him so they do their jobs and then all of a sudden Richard goes home and kills himself. This poem is an example of Moderrnism .
Mending Wallby Robert Frost:The wall is is always getting broken and every year and the narrator always eb=nds up fixing it. the neighbor of the poet stated that "good fences make good neighbors" but as you continue reading the poem the only time they talked and hung out was when they worked on a fence to repair it from the damage that was done by the hunters and winter season.
A Dream Deferred: think the Poem was written during the Harlem Renaissance. It addresses how people in America was saying that America was the place to be but truly it wasn't in this poem Mr. Hughes questioned their belief. it wasn't really a question but you could tell he say ask where is the opportunity when you treat us (black people) like we are nothing but Horse manure to you meaning the white people.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers:In the poem he talks about different rivers he has been to over the course of history. He says that he has “known rivers ancient as the world and older that the flow of human blood in human veins”. He also says that he “looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it”.
Incident by Countee Cullen This poem poem to me is relly hard for me to notice what it is. I think it would be Dullisionment because he went to Balitomore and didn't expect what happend to happen. "Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
By doing all this work, oi ahve learned new words and how to change the sentences into where i can understand it better!
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