JSF's Commencement Address at Middlebury on Sunday

If you'd like a nice break from studying for exams, JSF's address is worth your time:

Thank you lots and lots!

Hey guys,

I just wanted to thank you all for posting your quotes. It's really helpful for studying to know the page numbers and I'm really happy that I don't have to hunt anyone down..... Anyways, thanks again and happy studying!

passage ID pages

Sorry this is a little late, but here it is.

Gatsby:

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy" (49).

"All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"(17).

Scarlet Letter: (I added context for people who have editions with different page numbers)

"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart" (chapter 2, between the paragraph that starts with "The magistrates are..." and the paragraph that starts with "What do we talk of marks and brands")

"Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them; always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances..." (chapter 21, paragraph that starts with "Pearl was decked out with airy gaiety.")

Caroline or Change:

"For change come fast and change come slow but everything changes" (126).

"Rose Stopnick can cook. Rose Stopnick is lovely. Rose Stopnick doesn't smoke. Or play bassoon" (22-23).

ELIC:

"I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud" (235).

"If things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding" (ignore that one... see email). 

Qoutes

ELIC

“Being with him made my brain quiet.  I didn’t have to invent a thing.” -12

“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.” -208

Great Gatsby

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
-179

Daisy, on her newborn girl: "All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I
hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" -21

Scarlet

“Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!” -49

"But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only pleasure."-75

Caroline or change

“You don’t know me, I’m a mom!” nuff said

study group

Louisa and I were talking at graduation today and we thought it might be a good idea to get together for a small study group to compare quote id's on Sunday or Monday before the exam. We could meet at the  

bookstore, library, Starbucks, or my house in West Hartford if anyone is interested. It might be good to have each other double check our ideas and/or add to them. Comment if you're interested:)

-Becca

Quotes

Scarlet Letter

·        “In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A” (47).

·        “Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified” (96).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

·        “If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent” (30).

·        “…the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river,  I was the tree, the world was the river” (16).

Caroline, or Change

·        “Nothing happens under ground in Louisiana. Cept in this house, cept here, cept here…This house got a basement” (12).

·        “From now on if you find change in his pockets, when you do the washing, just keep it, just keep it, if he leaves it, it’s yours” (49).

The Great Gatsby

·        “But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg” (23).

·        “But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room” (89).

More Quotes

Caroline or Change

1.)   pg. 92

CAROLINE

You can’t talk to folk like that.

EMMIE

Talk to white folk what you mean.

CAROLINE

Lord I raised a spoiled brat.

They your boss! You ain’t a queen!

Gonna get yourself knocked flat,

mouth off round white folk like that.

2.)   pg. 104

NOAH

CAROLINE!

GIVE IT BACK!

CAROLINE!

I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!

There’s a bomb!

President Johnson has built a bomb

special made to kill all Negroes!

I hate you, hate you, kill al Negroes! Really! For

                        true!

I hope he drops his bomb on you!

The Scarlet Letter

1.)   pg. 143

“And, since Satan saw fit to steal it, your reverence must needs handle him without gloves, henceforward,” remarked the old sexton, grimly smiling. “But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? A great red letter in the sky,--the letter A,--which we interpret to stand for Angel. For, as our good Governor Winthrop was made an angel this past night, it was doubtless held fit that there should be some notice thereof!”

2.)   pg. 130

“The minister well knew—subtle, but remorseful hypocrite that he was!—the light in which his vague confession would be viewed. He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived. He had spoken the very truth, and transformed it into the veriest falsehood. And yet, by the constitution of his nature, he loved the truth, and loathed the lie, as few men ever did. Therefore, above all things else, he loathed his miserable self!”

The Great Gatsby

1.)   pg. 48

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”

2.)   pg. 180

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—
   

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

1.)   pg. 165

“Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and incredibly close. Maybe twenty of them. Maybe more. But they also seemed like just one bird, because somehow they all knew exactly what to do. Mr. Black grabbed at his ears and made a bunch of weird sounds. He start crying—not out of happiness, I could tell, but not out of sadness, either.”

2.)   pg. 216

“When your mother found me in the bakery on Broadway, I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here…Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me.”

QUOTES!!!

Caroline or Change

1. “And Larry need a package with cookies and stuff./ And Emmie want a T.V., she want everything,/ and Joe want candy, want a rat-fink ring./ And i want the night to stay/ nighttime forever/ so i can sit smoking her, so i never/ have to get up, go to work, be polite./ Go on to bed, Noah./ Stop botherin the night” (Kushner 47)

1. “She needs from me things i cannot provide:/ conversation, support, and a heart . . . Those all died./ I’ll stand here till...Noah has grown,/ he and i will lived here, in this house, all alone,/ and i’ll say to him, ‘Noah the moon shone so bright/ when she played her bassoon that last Chanukah night’” (Kushner 97). 

The Scarlet Letter

1. “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent,—as the figure, the body, the reality of sin” (Hawthorne 66-67).
2. “Now, at the death-hour, he stands up before you! He bids you look again at Hester's scarlet letter! He tells you, that, with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his own red stigma, is no more that the type of what has seared his inmost heart” (Hawthorne 209).

The Great Gatsby

1. “‘I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past.’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand” (Fitzgerald 110).
2. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 180).

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

1. “Then, out of nowhere, a flock of birds flew by the window, extremely fast and incredibly close. Maybe twenty of them. Maybe more. But they also seemed like just one bird, because somehow they all knew exactly what to do” (Foer 165).
2. “The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did” (Foer 309). 

ID Passages

Caroline or Change

“I’m the daughter of a maid,/ in her uniform crisp and clean!/ Nothing can ever make me afraid!” pg. 126

Pocket change change me, pocket change change me,/can’t afford loose change, can’t afford change,/changin’s a danger for a woman like me, pg. 116

The Scarlet Letter

Partly supported by Hester Prynne, and holding one hand of little Pearl’s, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers… pg. 232

“Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence. But indeed, he was blind and foolish, as he ever and always is.  A pure hand needs no glove to cover it!” pg. 143

The Great Gatsby

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. Pg. 109

…he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light… pg. 20-21

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The positioning was the sculpting. He was sculpting me. He was trying to make me so he could fall in love with me. Pg. 84

“But why just YES and NO?” “I only have two hands.” “What about ‘I’ll think about it’” and ‘probably’ and ‘it’s possible’?” pg. 257

passages by Becca G

Gatsby: 

"I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool..." (17)

"It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too--didn't cut the pages." (46)

"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry." (88)

Scarlet Letter: "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." (197-198)

"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart."(46)

"But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rosebush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."(43)


Caroline or Change:

"The Devil made the Dryer
  Everything else, God made." 

"A grown woman got no business
taking pennies from a baby"

"they ain't no underground
in Louisiana.
There is only
under water." ( I left my book at home so I can't look up the pg. numbers, but they are all said by caroline and the first two are in the very beginning) 

ELAIC: 
"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live." (184) (grandma to oskar)

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me." (181) (grandma about thomas sr)

"We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it" (81) grandmother about thomas sr. in a letter to oskar

-Becca

IDs

Here ya go, Lydia:

Caroline or Change:

“I’m the daughter of a maid,

in her uniform, crisp and clean!

Nothing can ever make me afraid!...

For change comes fast and change comes slow but

Everything changes!” (Kushner 126)

My sorrow go where my heart grow calm.

When you stop breathing air you get

Oh so calm,

No fire down there

So it’s calm calm calm

And there’s never any money

So it’s very very calm

But you miss

Oh you miss

The sun and the moon and the wooden bassoon” (124).

The Scarlet Letter:

“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers,—stern and wild ones,–and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss” (Hawthorne 184).

“Pearl kissed [Dimmesdale’s] lips. A spell was broken…The wild infant… had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father’s cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human job and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it” (234).

The Great Gatsby:

‘“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand” (Fitzgerald 110).

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (17).

Extremely Loud:

“…I told him my idea”. He wrote, “Why would you want to do that?” I told him, “Because it’s the truth, and Dad loved the truth.” “What truth?” “That he’s dead” (321).

“I wanted to be with him.

Or anyone.

I don’t know if I’ve ever loved your grandfather.

But I’ve loved not being alone” (309).