Jake, Reinvented HW

The following assignment is due tomorrow:

Jake, Reinvented
Read Chapter 2

Pg 20
Why do you think Jake wanted so desperately to be on the football team?

Pg 21
Jake’s car-
“A champagne colored BMW with a twenty-four karat shine whispered up to the curb in front of me. Soundlessly, the tinted window of the driver seat disappeared into the door. There at the wheel sat none other than Jake Garrett.”

Gatsby’s car-
“I’d seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.”

Explain the significance of the cars in each story. What do the represent? Explain how important it is to have a nice car in high school. What does a high school student gain by having a nice car?

Pg 25
What is the significance of the way the Throckmorton students act? How does this relate to The Great Gatsby? What is in the envelopes?

Pg 29
Explain who/what Mrs. Appleford represents from The Great Gatsby.