About the only thing they had in common was that they were both Asian American, but even thatjust obscured the gulf between their backgrounds: Hsu’s parents had immigrated from Taiwan,whereas Ken’s Japanese American family had lived in the United States for genera
Being classified together as both Asian Americans will hide the real differences in their lives and experiences.
om,” I inquired, “what did you say to Wilson that afternoon?” He stared at me without a word, and I knew I had guessed right about those missing hours. I started to turn away, but he took a step after me and grabbed my arm. “I told him the truth,” he said. “He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren’t in he tried to force his way upstairs. He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house—” He broke off defiantly. “What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car.”
wow,tom told the truth to george,poor guy,but george doesn't seem to accept the truth
After the armistice he tried frantically to get home, but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead. He was worried now—there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy’s letters. She didn’t see why he couldn’t come. She was feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
Daisy’s decision was shaped by fear and pressure than by a lack of love. She need reassurance and stability, but Gatsby couldn’t give her at the time, this is the reason why she turned to Tom.
She didn’t like it,” he insisted. “She didn’t have a good time.” He was silent, and I guessed at his unutterable depression. “I feel far away from her,” he said. “It’s hard to make her understand.” “You mean about the dance?” “The dance?” He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. “Old sport, the dance is unimportant.” He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago. “And she doesn’t understand,” he said. “She used to be able to understand. We’d sit for hours—” He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers.
yess even gastby sees daisy inside , i don;t get it why tom ignore her
I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
Gatsby rejects his real background and creates a new identity based on an idealized version of himself rather than reality.
I think he hardly knew what he was saying
This sentence reveals how unstable Gatsby’s self-narrative has become. His words no longer sound deliberate but defensive and automatic. It suggests that the persona he performs is slipping beyond his control.
Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man’s eyes.
This moment shows how casually Gatsby uses personal influence to control the situation. It reduces the policeman’s authority to a simple gesture. It also reveals the hidden power Gatsby relies on beneath his glamorous image.
He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers.
Why is he walking up and down? Is he too sad to walk?
“I feel far away from her,
This sentence shows Gatsby’s growing fear that his dream cannot survive real contact with Daisy. He realizes that she cannot see the world he has built around her. It also exposes the emotional distance that his fantasy tried to hide.
She knew this coffee-drinking guy wanted tohave sex with her, and she was considering it, but he wasn't improv-ing his chances by making her feel stupid.
he uses knowledge to make her feel inferior, rather than treating her as an equal.
She sat at a Mac and logged on.Her user name was "CrazyIndian," and her password was "StillCrazy."
Though this sentence is a little bit related to the book title, why her username is CrazyIndian? Is it indicates the scene, or is it a simple meaning?
I kept shouting, 'I want some respect! I want some respect!' Ishouted it all day and all night. And nobody gave me any respect. Iwas asking directly for it, and people just kept walking around me.Avoiding me. Not even looking at me. Not even acknowledging m
He keep asking for respect, but nobody listens to him. People ignore him and act like he doesn’t exist, which shows how lonely and powerless he feels.
For her, each great book was
This sentence illustrates how Corliss elevates literature to a near-religious status. It reveals her tendency to surrender critical judgment when she admires a writer. It also shows how her passion for reading can blur into blind devotion.
I led him to the silver chair at thehearth and poured wine. His face was pleasant, and he leaned for-ward again, as if eager for whatever I might offer
Why Odysseus is pleasant in the eye, is he knowing something that the other man want to talk about?
You are kind, but I think we both know it is not. soon as I wason board, the seas around me lifted wrathful heads. The sky dark-ened to iron. I tried to turn the fleet around, but it was too late. Herstorm spun us far off from Troy." He rubbed his knuckles as if theyached. "Now when I speak to her, she does not answer.
Odysseus feels guilty and weak. Because he knows he can’t fight against a goddess’s anger.
We dispatched you with all kindness, to ensure you’d come 65safely to home and country, or wherever you wanted.’
why does it give him whatever he want
When I asked him about our own journey, wanted his helpin sending us on our way, he denied me nothing,
I think that the man didn’t answer because he was thinking of something else.
June did this, June did that, she savedmoney and helped clean the house and cookedand Connie couldn't do a thing, her mindwas all filled with trashy daydreams.
I can’t imagine how stress Connie would be if she’d to heard those kind of salty remarks that keep compare her with her sister.
If any person strike another on the head so that the brain appears, and the three bones which lie above the brain shall project, he shall be sentenced to 1200 denars, which make 30 shillings. 4. But if it shall have been between the ribs or in the stomach, so that the wound appears and reaches to the entrails, he shall be sentenced to 1200 denars-which make 30 shillings-besides five shillings for the physician's pay.
Severe injury to the stomach and head generates the same monetary penalty, which indicates that they are seen as equal in terms of losses. However, for an injury to the head, there is no extra penalty required for physician's pay. This is troubling as a head injury of this severity would most certainly give cause for medical treatment to at the very least treat the wound (in the likely case that there were no treatments for psychological or neurological damages). Perhaps they assumed that the person would succumb to their wounds in this case, but taking that perspective makes it difficult to rationalize them as equivalent losses. It is likely that an injury to the ribs or stomach might also cause the death of the individual during this time but it is strange that there is an acknowledgement of an attempt for treatment.
that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones.
It is troubling that Montresor shows no hesitation or guilt while listening to Fortunato’s cries. His enjoyment of the sound of chains reveals his cruelty and the disturbing pleasure he takes in revenge.
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will 't please you rise? We'll meet
The author's words appear calm, but I feel something terrible happened, like he ended his wife’s life without remorse.
John sinks down in his seat, afraid she is going to ask him questions as well. He pulls out his phone and looksthrough social media to keep her from bothering him. As other students enter the class, some quiet andothers talkative, John wonders if he will have to interact with them. Even though he has not met many peopleyet–and certainly has not had any deep conversations with anyone–he feels anxious about having to get toknow strangers and feels most comfortable keeping to himself at least fo
This situation shows how easily anxiety can keep someone from connecting with others. It’s sad that John feels the need to hide behind his phone instead of giving himself a chance to meet new people. It reminds me how difficult social situations can be when fear takes over, and how important it is to slowly build confidence to open up.
my mask is powerful
What is the mask is about? Is a phase or a another thing?
I go down. My flippers cripple me, I crawl like an insect down the ladder and there is no one to tell me when the ocean will begin.
This might describe how the she feels awkward and alone while going deeper into the sea. The image of crawling “like an insect” could suggest weakness or discomfort.
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera,
I see nothing in common at this point, and cannot associate the two lines.
And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here
I think when she says it's easy to forget what she came for, it;s because there's so much to take in down there ; not just the wounds and broken things, but also strange , hauntingly beautiful details that make you want to stay and wander.Tat's why there seem to be people who have 'always lived here' - they've settles among the ruins, maybe trapped by it or maybe finding a kind of comfort in it.
d. Everyone is looking at something a child can'tsee. For a minute they've forgotten the children. Maybe a kidis lying on the rug, half asleep.
Why is the parents will forgot their child? Is the author is telling us something?
That's right.
I’m curious about why the man would do that. Was he kicking Sonny when he’s down?
For, whilethe tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and howwe may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.
It’s troubling because it reminds us that suffering never disappears; people keep reliving pain through their own stories. The line suggests a cycle that’s hard to break.
Creolebegan to tell us what the blues were all about. They were notabout anything very new.
When Creole says that ' blues weren't anything new' ,is it because the music they play all derived from their past feelings and emotions? or is it telling us that sonny's expressing his life? ( But I think both are things he wanted to tell us)
A teacher passed through themevery now and again, quickly, as though he or she couldn'twait to get out of that courtyard, to get those boys out of theirsight and off their minds.
I think ' a teacher ' might refer to the narrator himself; otherwise , why is it every ' now and again'?
They wept aloud and shed thick-flowing tears,but all their lamenting accomplished nothing for them.
From this line, we can tell that Odysseus seems somewhat narcissist ; even though his comrades were killed, he doesn't express much sadness or remorse.
my wife's word,imeparable-Beulah' s health went into a rapid decline. S
I don’t why the author use inseparable as a different font. Is it an important message for the readers? Or another meaning?
her lastthought maybe this: that he never even knew what she lookedlike, and she on an express to the grave.
It’s troubling that the narrator thought, I believe the woman didn’t care about whether the blind man knew what she looked like. She just knew her husband sincerely loved her.
Imagi~e a womanwho could never see herself as she was seen in the eyes of herloved one.
This is troubling because the narrator focuses only on appearance . His shallow view shows a lack of empathy and makes the reader uncomfortable.
She went in and swallowed all thepills and capsules in the medicine chest and washed them downwith a bottle of gin.
It troubles me because it shows how hopeless and desperate she felt in her life.
And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping aboutbehind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder— I begin tothink— Iwish John would take me away from here!
It’s quite scary if the pattern of my wall paper is like a woman stooping and creeping.
How do you know what my name is?" she said suspiciously
It’s troubling because she never said her name but he knew it.
I toldja shut up, Ellie," Arnold Friend said,
The way the author uses "toldja" is weird, is the author emphasize Anrold's friend talking voice.
Maybe you two better go away," Connie said faintly."What? How come?" Arnold Friend cried. "We come out here to take you for a ride.
This is troubling because Arnold’s words sound friendly at first, but they actually suggest danger and coercion. It shows that Connie is being lured into a situation she can’t control, creating fear and suspense.
I took a special interest in you, such a pretty girl, and found out all about you—like I know your parents and sister are gone somewheres and I know where and how longthey're going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night, and your best girlfriend's name is Betty. Right?"
In the beginning, I think the boy only knows Connie's name, but in this paragraph, he tells her that he knows where her family goes, how long they will be gone, and even the name of her best friend. It makes me feel uncomfortable.
"Connie, you ain't telling the truth. This is your day set aside for a ride with me andyou know it," he said, still laughing. The way he straightened and recovered from his fit oflaughing showed that it had been all fak
That part where Arnold pretends Connie already agreed to go with him is troubling because it feels manipulative and fake.
This here is my name, to begin with, he said. ARNOLD FRIENDwas written in tarlike black letters on the side,
The way he introduced his name was strange, and he even marked numbers on his car, which makes people question his identity and purpose.
"Aunt Tillie's. Right now they're uh—they're drinking. Sitting around," he saidvaguely, squinting as if he were staring all the way to town and over to Aunt Tillie's backyard. Then the vision seemed to get clear and he nodded energetically.
The stutter gave it away that he's attempting to fabricate a lie. Or that he really had seen them before. It's vaguely put. Either way, it's extremely alarming.
She stood
In two words, it shows the eventual submission, a quiet sacrifice. Extremely powerful.
He looked at her. He took off the sunglasses and she saw how pale the skin around hiseyes was, like holes that were not in shadow but instead in light. His eyes were like chipsof broken glass that catch the light in an amiable way.
The sharp contrast between his skin suggests he had been chronically predatory.
even her neck!
I’m really concerned about whether his wife felt offended or something else, but he mentioned she even wanted to write a poem for it, so maybe it’s remembering?
I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs thatopened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, andsuch pretty, old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John wouldnot hear of it.He said there was only one window and not room for twobeds, and no near room for him if he took an other.He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir withoutspecial direction
This passage is troubling to me. John calls himself loving, but he controls every part of her life.This didn’t make her condition better,but made it worse.
I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane! AndI’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
This is troubling because the narrator believes she has escaped by tearing down the wallpaper, but in reality she has lost her sanity.
Very early in the morning on February 28, after they’ve spoken to Jay, after Jay has shown them where Hae’s car wasparked off Edgewood Road, the detectives come into Adnan’s bedroom and wake him up, tell him to put some clotheson , it’s time to go
it raises doubts about Jay's credibility. He claims to know exactly where the car was parked, but if he wasn't at the scene, how could he be so certain? This inconsistency in Jay's testimony is a significant issue and leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
I don’t know
I thought that in this conversation, Sarah would believe Adnan is more innocent, but instead, she seems to lose more confidence in him. Why is that?
The brute took up his position on the wash-basin stand; and every attempt to dislodge him brought to the ground some fragile articles of furniture — glasses, basins, and jugs
This sentence troubles me because it portrays the monkey as a destructive force, wreaking damage without care. The chaos described here feels almost excessive, making it difficult to imagine how an animal could cause so much intentional damage.
caught driving a car that had been the propethe victim
Why did he drive the victim’s car? Wasn’t he afraid of being discovered? Or was he on purpose?
Feeding time at the Zoo! The animals are very regular in their habits
What does he mean while Blore Leave by himself？ Was Lambard implying Blore’s death？
You can come with me. We’ve won, my dear! We’ve won
The "little figure," is a symbol foreshadowing their misfortune. Why does Vera regard them as part of we?
None of us are going to leave the island. That’s the plan. You know it, of course, perfectly.What, perhaps, you can’t understand is the relief!”
Why does General MacArthur say that everyone is waiting for the end while also stating that Vera won't understand this as a form of release?
“How was it possible,”
well, i got the same question. i think there was chances that the guessing might still go off. Dupin is kind of too certained to make the judgement. leading him to conclusions that may seem like leaps of intuition but are meant to appear logically sound.
So you might start by writing down every single thing youcan remember from your first few years in sch
9/30 troubling: I often write too many things to writing. However, this make me didn’t get the core of the questions.
"I don't even know where to start,
9/30 Troubling: It’s hard for me to start writing an essay, and I think the beginning is the most difficult thing for me.
The throat of the old lady was not merely cut, but the head absolutely severed from the body
The passage shows the cruelness of an animal and also illustrates the behavior of animals being skilled at imitation. Though it did it unconsciously, it’s also harmful.
After a thorough investigation of every portion of the house, without farther discovery, the party made its way into a small paved yard in the rear of the building, where lay the corpse of the old lady, with her throat so entirely cut that, upon an attempt to raise her, the head fell off.{i} The body, as well as the head, was{j} fearfully mutilated — the former so much so as scarcely to retain any semblance of humanity.
I wonder how did the murderer cut the Madame L’Espanaye's neck so deeply that her head fell off when people tried to raise her corpse. Also, what knid of weapon did the murderer use? I guess the weapon is probably big or long, but how did the murderer take away and nobody saw it?
We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.
I feel troubling at first. This sentence kind of makes me feel like it's narrtive by a psychpath who has serious obsessive behaviour.
Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing{q} of the theory of probabilities
I am not quite sure about the meaning of this sentence, is it means that normal people over interpreting the coincidences as the motivation of murderer?
but an unusual quantity of soot being observed in the fire-place, a search was made in the chimney, and (horrible to relate!)(24) the corpse of the daughter, head downward,{h} was dragged therefrom; it having been thus forced up the narrow aperture for a considerable distance.
I was horrified by this scene, but also curious at the same time. I couldn’t understand how the daughter could be “head downward and was dragged”. Was she trying to hide in the fire-place but fell down? Or was she trying to run but being caught by the animal?
The faculty of re-solution{d} is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked{e} by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre{f} motions, with various and variable values, what{g} is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what{h} is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique{i} and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, [page 529:] and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.{j} To be less abstract — Let us suppose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings, and where, of course, no oversight is to be expected. It is obvious that here the victory can be decided (the players being at all equal) only by some recherché{k} movement, the result of some strong exertion of the intellect. Deprived of ordinary resources, the analyst throws himself into the spirit of his opponent, identifies himself therewith, and not unfrequently sees thus, at a glance, the sole methods (sometimes indeed absurdly simple ones) by which he may seduce into {ll}error or hurry into miscalculation.{ll}
Using chess to connect with the concept of analysis at the beginning of the story is innovative, however, I have to admit that this "chess metaphor" doesn't work for me ----It neither provides me any necessary background information nor triggers my interest and curiosity to read on.
There appeared to be no furniture in any part of the building except in the fourth story.
I couldn't find myself understanding why there is no furniture in the other parts of the building. Is it because of any superstitions? Or is it just mainly because of the home owner's preference. Or it may just be an unimportant statement I can ignore.
“I will explain,” he said, “and that you may comprehend all clearly, we will first retrace the course of your meditations, from the moment in which I spoke to you until that of the rencontre{j} with the fruiterer in question. The larger links of the chain run thus — Chantilly, Orion, Dr. Nichol,{k} (16) Epicurus, Stereotomy, the street stones, the fruiterer.” There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest; and he who attempts it for the first time is{l} astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.(17) What, then, must have been my amazement when I heard the Frenchman speak what he had just spoken, and when I could not help acknowledging that he had spoken the truth. He continued: “We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C———. This was the last subject we discussed. As we crossed into this street, a fruiterer, with a large basket upon his head, brushing quickly past us, thrust you upon a pile of paving-stones collected at a spot where the causeway is undergoing repair. You stepped upon one of the loose fragments, slipped, slightly strained your ankle, appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned to look{m} at the pile, and then proceeded in silence. I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity. “You kept your eyes upon the ground — glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine,(18) which has been paved, by way of [page 536:] experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.(19) Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured{n} the{oo} word ‘stereotomy,’ a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.{oo} I knew that you could not {pp}say to yourself ‘stereotomy’ without{pp}, being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus;(20) and since{q} when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward{r} to the great nebula{s} in Orion,(21) and I certainly expected that you would do so. You did look up; and I was now{t} assured that I had correctly followed your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's ‘Musée,’ the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a{u} Latin line{v} about which{w} we have often conversed. I mean the line {xx}Perdidit antiquum litera prima sonum{xx} I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it.(22) It was clear, therefore, that you would not fail to combine the two ideas of Orion and Chantilly. That you did combine them I saw by the character of the smile which passed over your lips. You thought of the poor cobbler's immolation. So far, you had been stooping in your gait; but now I saw you draw yourself up to your full height. I was then sure that you reflected upon the diminutive figure of Chantilly. At this point I interrupted your meditations to remark [page 537:] that as, in fact, he was a very little fellow — that Chantilly — he would do better at the Théâtre des Variétés.”{y}
I know that the author wants to create an image of Dupin as a detective who is good at reasoning; however, I wondered, how could he link all these details together and never miss one action or facial expression from our narrator? If the author had cut some of the details, would it be more convincing to most people? Since most of us could barely do that, we might not be able to think of it and resonate with it.
The piece has a fault, shared by too many later detective stories, of one too gory passage, something avoided in the far finer tale, “The Purloined Letter,” which Poe himself valued more highly.
The explicit depiction of violence can evoke discomfort or revulsion in readers, prompting them to question the necessity of such details in the narrative.
The{a} mental features discoursed of as the analytical{a′} are, in themselves, but little, susceptible of analysis.
still found it hard to fully understand this, but Edgar put it in the beginning of the story, it should be an important or inspiring idea.
Like all the rest [of the tales], it is written backwards.
I had to reread this paragraph multiple times to understand this line. Does it mean the story starts from the present and end at the past? It means, that the story forms clearer and clearer with each edition.
Some, for example, require ascreenshot or link to the original text produced by the AI program, so they cansee how the student altered it.
Troubling: It seems like this AI tool has become such a menace to both teachers and students in the acedemic realm and at this point I feel like it is doing more harm than good. Because students use it as a shortcut and professors are also worrying a lot more and requiring a lot more procedures just to grade an assignment such as:(screenshots, links, and even requirement them to submit notes and other artifacts of their work process) I feel like all this will only slow down the grading process and put more unecessary work for the ones in the teaching position.
Her goal was todiscourage AI use
I don't know why she don't want her students use AI.
Some faculty members said theyfeared colleges failed to recognize the potential dangers of AI, and argued for acomplete ban, better detection tools, and a return to in-class, pen-and-papertest-taking.
I think that we should learn how to use AI correctly,not using it to cheat
You need to know exactly what your subject is and what you plan to say about it
Most of the time when I write about any article I will just write without thinking so this will really trouble to me
You failed to address your audience by wasting their time writing below their level.
I will put the useless massage in my article sometimes,I think it faled to let the audience to finished my article
This fails as the previous example does, but in opposite ways. It addresses subject, audience, and purpose in ineffective ways by selecting abstract and indirect words, and by arranging them in convoluted phrases within a poor sentence structure.
Certain aspects in the article raised concerns for me as they might lead to some issues that require further reflection and discussion.
Because adding research to your essays requires the use of others’ writing, and because many assignment require you to write about others’ writing, it is possible to plagiarize accidentally through incorrect citation.
When we’re writing an essay, we often quote others writing in our paper, that might cause some copyright issues.