May Flowers

Ah, spring. The birds are singing, the flowers blooming, and the seniors all need some kind of pill to cure senioritis. Here are some more fun sentences from my students from various papers on various works. As always, these are unedited and my comments are in ( ).

- Finally the narrator rips off the wallpaper, but only showing that she has lost reality. (Hope she finds it.)

- Gatsby was ok when we talked about it. (We? I have no idea who we are.)

- The Great Gatsby, a novel by Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel full of repetition. (Like this sentence.)

- When the illusion fades away their life is left.

- He lets too many other things get in the way of stuff. (I hate when things get in the way of stuff.)

- Jay Gatsby faces reality and he faces his own reality which is known as an illusion.

- ...to keep up with appearances...

- Jay Gatsby was creating this fack imige about himself. ("fake image," I think.)

- ...his realization of reality kicked in... (For some reason my students love it when things "kick in.")

- Literary elements are the frosting of a story. (I hate it when they come up with meaningless metaphors in their intros.)

- Characterization brings about the fascination people have with each other. (Huh?)

- Dummy was so protective of the fish that he erected a fence around the pond where he and his wife lived. (Now, the character's name was Dummy, but it was the FISH who lived in the pond!)

- Words in short stories are very significant. (Shocker.)

- ...she had gone crazy in the mind.

- Symbolism means to represent a certain thing by symbols or coming up with things that show symbols or represent them. (No, that is not what symbolism means.)

- The house seems hunted to her.

- Dummy is characterized as a preservative person.

- Being young and vulnerable, knowing the specificities from a male to female was unknown to the narrator. (Your guess is as good as mine.)

Until next time...

J