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• Blog – Why does William leave Mr. Sands? Do you think his actions were justified or rude?

Mr. Sands gets into congress so he takes a trip up there. Mr. Sands bring William, Lindas brother, with him. Mr. sands tells William that he will set him free after five years of being with him, but that isn't good enough for William, so he bails. His actions were rude, because for the first time, a white man is trying to do some good for a black man, but the trust isn't there yet. William couldn't risk getting stabbed in the back, so he had to leave. If Mr. Sands were trustworthy, which we've seen he isnt' because he didn't follow Lindas wishes with the kids, then it would be very rude. But because we've seen how un trustworthy he is, I feel that William was justified.

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• Blog – How does Mr. Sands come to get possession of the children? Why does Linda trust him? Do you feel he’s trustworthy?

Mr. Sands gets possession of the children when Linda runs away by getting someone else to buy them off of Dr. Flint. Dr. Flint knows that the slaves are Mr. Sands children also so he would never sell them to him, and Mr. Sands knows this. So he pays another man to buy the slaves and then sell them to him and that he would pay him very well. Linda trusts him because he promised that he would free their kids, and she values family so much that she thinks that he must do too. I don't think that Dr. Sands is very trustworthy because he is a white man in the south. The south corrupts even the nicest people and once he gets a family he will want to provide them the best things he can. Also he might want to keep the kids with him, so they would have a nice life style..but never truly be free.

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Lindas daughter is given a necklace to wear and it really really upsets her. Linda gets upset because she says that she doesn't want her daughter to ever feel the shackles of slavery even if it is a golden necklace. She feels this way because in slavery there can be no nice gift. Because even if their owner is trying to be nice to them, they are still in slavery and therefore no happiness. The fact that you are not free and that someone owns you is so bad that nothing they can do will ever justify putting you in slavery.

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• Blog – Pick a passage you found interesting and explain why you liked it

The beginning of chapter twelve was 'interesting' to me. I say it in quotes because it's a horrible thing that happened but it's something that shows how horrible it was to be in the south as a colored person. People in the north didn't know what horrible atrocities were going on and they thought that there were some people of color living happily down there. This story shows the honest brutality of the South and how horrible whites were to them. Not even the people of color that wern't owned as property were beaten up and tortured horribly just because that day had a name put to it. It was called a muster and the whites would just run rampid around beating up any person of color that looked to be happy or with another person of color. It's a horrible thing that happened but also it shows the true horrors of the south.

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Love for a slave is very restricted. It's restricted because usually when they are actually in love with someone they are not allowed to be that person except to have children. The owners want the children because then they get more slaves that they can sell. Slaves are also forced into relationships with their owners, and Jacobs even says that it is bad to be pretty because then the owners will want to pursue a relationship with them. Jacobs was lucky that her owner, Dr. Flint, did not try to force anything with her. He wanted it to be sincere which was very surprising for that time period. It makes the story seem so much more real that Jacobs doesn't just say he's an animal and lie about what happened she shows that there was compasion but that there is no such thing as happiness or kindness when you're in slavery.

Chapters 1-4

Jacobs presents slavery as it really was. It's incredibly powerful because she tells it from her point of view instead of making an avatar and making up a story akin to hers. Her view is very broad because she can relate it to other slaves and can talk about how it was for other slaves but it's an individual story because she saw it all first hand. She shows the sacrifices the slave had to make while in slavery to attain freedom or just to have some fake sense of happiness. Jacobs is also honest with everything and she isn't going to lie about anything she did. She is going to tell the truth so that people can see what she went through. Jacobs admits she didn't like sharing all the harsh things she went though, but it was necessary for the good of the story.

chapter 9

– React to the attendance at Gatsby’s funeral. Why do the people who come, come? What is it meant to show us?

Gatsby's funeral wasn't the most exciting funeral that I expected it to be. Not many people showed up there. This was shocking at first but then you realize how many people Gatsby had round at his house for parties but how none of them personally knew him. It's a very upsetting thought, that because of how obsessed Gatsby had become with getting with Daisy he had nothing else in his life. Owl Eye was there and all he had to say was "That poor son of a bitch' The proverbial God in this book even had no sympathy for Gatsby. It's meant to show us that even though you can have the biggest house, throw the most extravagant parties, get the coolest people at your house, it doesn't mean that you are going to be happy. Gatsby died un happy. He died with his life long dream, Daisy, gone from reach and all he was left with was his money.

Chapter 8

This chapter and chapter 7 are the climax of the novel. Explain how something mentioned earlier might have hinted at these climatic events.

Gatsby's, Myrtles and Wilsons death were all mainly involved in the myopic view of Daisy and Tom. Daisy and Tom have shown throughout the book to be very in the moment people. Daisy does seem to be very interested in Gatsby but I always felt like there was something not quite right about it. She didn't care enough that Tom was noticing, she didn't care enough at how much it would destroy her life to leave for Gatsby and I felt like Gatsby wasn't looking at the same person I was. That proved to me that Tom and Daisy were going to run over as many people as possible in their path, but I wasn't sure who was going to die. Gatsby's death was given away in chapter two when Nick told us that it wasn't what Gatsby did but what he left behind him that got him. Tom really caused Myrtle's and Tom's death by having an affair with Myrtle. This affair caused the row between Myrtle and Tom which is why she ran into the street. The book did give a lot of foreshadowing but it is only after the fact that you can really look at what happened and say "oh I see now how that came about."

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Nick tells us the truth about Gatsby in this chapter. Speculate why Gatsby makes up the lie, and why Nick decides to tell us at this point in the book as opposed to earlier.

Nick tells us the truth about Gatsby, and how he became rich by stealing now because he wanted us to be able to see Gatsby in the light that he saw him in. Nick is able to sympathize with Gatsby because he knows how good of a guy he really is. If at the beginning we were told that Gatsby is a criminal and used that as a way to get this girl that he was supposedly in love with, then this book would never have the same impact it did. From a very shallow standpoint, Gatsby's life was pathetic. It is only when you really analyze it and look at the deeper meaning behind those that made it pathetic and the way that Gatsby tried to get to Daisy is when you realize how important the morals of this story are. The only way for Nick to get us hooked into this book is to created the mystery around Gatsby that Nick felt, so he had to recreate that mystery for us.