Split into ten added segments; some reordering (Nick, ch. 7 below), and condensed.
1. The three houses 2. The Buchanan world: 4:54 3. The Valley of Ashes: 8:16 4. The apartment: 14:55 5. The preparations: 18:16 6. The high Gothic library: 21:30 7. The man of “interior rules”: 23:42 8. The mysterious and legendary Gatsby: 26:18 9. The request: 33:26 10. The rain: 36:00 11. The sun: 45:23 12. The “son of God”: 53:25 13. “Can’t repeat the past?”: 56:20 14. “Heat”: 1:09:07 15. Secret chivalry: 1:49:55 16. Unrequited love: 2:02:46 17. Stalking: 2:16:00 18. The “foul dust”: 2:24:23 19. Cruel indifference: 2:27:12
Bruno Sokolov is introduced as a misunderstood and deeply troubled boy. He is constantly faced with struggle, as he attempts to seek connection in his life. Already an outcast, things get worse for him once he attacks a man with a knife in order to protect the narrator of the story, a shy young girl.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOxpKWAhi9I
"The Glass Castle" is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swcgmg_nrcQ
Daisy Coble had been a good mother, and so she was ashamed to find out from Donny’s teacher that he had been misbehaving. He was noisy, lazy, disruptive, and he was caught smoking. At night, she lay awake wondering where she had gone wrong, and how she could have failed as a parent. Unsure of herself, Daisy follows the advice of professionals, and hires Donny a tutor with some unusual ideas to set the boy straight. But, has the gap between them grown too wide to bridge?
Text:
https://www.scasd.org/cms/lib/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1487/Teenage%20Wasteland.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5-BweHUnA
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was American lecturer, poet and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism.
1. From "Nature"
2. From "Self-Reliance": 7:03
Text:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14835xosyXUKOuB62iLGyAvrsxnb2mL4t/view?usp=sharing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tup6Z_ycGNo
Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark romance chronicling illegitimate mother Hester Prynne ostracized by Puritan Boston dramatized in this stage production.
Part 2: 44:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrtM4LsZPfE
Published shortly after his escape from slavery, "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" became an immediate bestseller in 1845 and is still the most widely read slave narrative in American history. A piercing denunciation of slavery, the Narrative mobilized masses of people for the abolitionist cause. But the Narrative is also a deeply personal memoir in which Douglass chronicles his childhood years of deprivation and brutality, his efforts to teach himself to read (teaching a slave to read was illegal in the South), and his dangerous flight to freedom in 1838.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtkc4YuJM5Q
This is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained, but like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
"Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand:
In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft. Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
https://laurahillenbrandbooks.com/
"The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown: 8:04
It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.
https://www.danieljamesbrown.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaOEGEL9js