THE GREAT GATSBY

CHARLESTON (Arthur Gibbs and his band) - I could imagine that this is one of the songs that was blasting at Gatsby's parties. The charleston was really big back then, as a song and a dance. Gatsby's parties always had the best music and this was a very popular song back then.

DOWN HEARTED BLUES (Bessie Smith)- This song would go with "The Great Gatsby" very well, because almost everyone in the book had gotten their heart broken or something similar to that in this book.

I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU (Helen Kane) - This reminds me of Gatsby because all he wanted was to get back the relationship he had with Daisy. Also, Wilson loved Myrtle so much, he could never let her go.

YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS (Billy Jones) - This was a very popular song in the 1920's and also it describes how out there and weird all the characers are in this book. All of them do some crazy things throughout the story for love or most of the time for money.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind - A poem by Stephen Crane - American Poems

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind - A poem by Stephen Crane - American Poems This poem really shows how nothing is ever really beneficial to a soldier from the war. Also, the families back home have a lot of difficulties and trials to go through. He keeps on saying that you should weep, because war is kind, but nothing about the war is really kind. It is just teaching men to kill emotionlessly and its teaching everyone in the world that killing like that is okay. But slaughtering men so that a field is full of dead bodies is not what God put us on earth for. It is not okay to go around illing just because you dont get along with another country, and i think that is kind of what Stephen Crane was trying to say. He described these horrific images so that you could see them in your head, but then everyone around is saying that war is okay, its what is right. War is never the right thing. Killing is never the right thing. And having to go through that is never the right thing.