... at the beginning. As we read further into the book though, things, such as Nick's morality, start to come into question. With people he believes to be less than him, he is still less charitable. He meets Myrtle Wilson, Tom's mistress and thought to himself, "there was an immediately perceptible vitality about ... the Gatsby/Daisy story from Jordan who asks him to arrange a meeting and he agrees to it. This is where the events leading up to Gatsby's death begin. Nick arranges the meeting for Daisy and Gatsby to reconnect, so essentially, it begins as his own fault. Gatsby takes Daisy to hi...

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... repeated the images. Those horrible images of people jumping to their deaths, soot covered business men and women stumbling down the street, the projected death counter constantly rising...I actually reached a point when I could no longer watch the television. One image that stuck in my mind was that of ... a child, recently pinned to the bulletin board. In my mind, that image was a visible shock of reality. These were real people, with real stories...not just a statistic. On September 12, 2001, I can vividly remember seeing a make-shift American Flag in the back window of a Toyota 4Runn...

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• Grade Level: High School