The Great Gatsby (7/24)

One of the things I have been doing on my break is reading. Reading for the fun of it. Not for a class, or to better my Spanish. I am reading in English because I can. (Granted, the books I can chose from are few, but we brought some interesting ones.) So I read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this classic about the "roaring" 20's, Gatsby, or James Gatz, left home to find his place in the world. As a young man, Gatsby happens to meet and lose the love of his life because he's poor. But, fueling the fire, he becomes the proverbial American "self-made man" and searches out this love again. Unfortunately, he mixes dreams with reality and gets involved in a messy situation. The end result is tragic, leaving one very pensive. I am not sure how reading this has made me a better man, but I am sure it has.

Next, I am reading about The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers.