Between the Pages

Welcome back to Virtual Book Club! Thank you for reading this post. While I had actual Zoom meetings with some of the students and faculty from my school, this is an overview of the novel ( The Great Gatsby ) and the topics we enjoyed discussing in depth. If you are a physical member of the club, and you missed a meeting or two, this is the perfect place to catch up on some of the topics we talked about that you may have missed. Please know, if I continue the book club, I will make sure to post the meeting links on this blog so that I can involve more people through this outlet. First, an introduction to the novel and its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick Carraway As a Narrator Nick Carraway establishes his accepting and non-judging personality on page one. He says, "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that al...

In early May, I was sitting in my bedroom - reading - missing my classmates when a genius idea struck me. I love talking about books. I love seeing my peers. Put them together, and presto,  a quarantine book club came to my mind. After a couple of days and a sign-up sheet, I had a group of about 15 young women. First, an introduction to the author and the book: The Man in the High Castle .  The topics of our discussion in the four meetings were about four main ideas: Dick's writing style, the representation of power, orientalism, and relating to characters in literature.  Stylistic Licence The group decided Dick's writing style was complicated, but surprisingly warm for a sci-fci writer. Freshman at our school read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in the classroom. Ray Bradbury writes very mechanically, as a robot, to convey his futuristic, eerie points.  Philip Dick writes in High Castle  from multiple (a lot of people appear in this novel - A LOT) perspecti...