I was sitting in the hard, black school chair when Ms. Seitz came in the warm, cozy classroom flipping her orange hair. We have this daily routine where we go over the agenda and announcements. I was sitting beside my classmate, Javier, when Ms. Seitz, with a smile on her face, announced that every person in the class would need to pick a book to read while on Christmas break. I, along with many others, began sighing and worrying about finding the time to read it. Eight stacks of hardback and flimsy books were laid on a brown table on the left side of the room. I got up and slowly walked over to the table. I picked up The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. I flipped through it, and it didn’t seem interesting, so I put it back on the …show more content…
In the speech, I had to be a woman named Daisy from the movie “The Great Gatsby” directed by Baz Luhrmann. This movie was about a married couple, Tom and Daisy (The Great Gatsby).Tom and Daisy were both cheating on each other throughout their marriage (The Great Gatsby). Tom was cheating with a woman named Myrtle, while Daisy cheated with an old flame named Gatsby (The Great Gatsby). Myrtle got run over by Daisy and Gatsby in front of a store (The Great Gatsby). Myrtle ran out because they were driving Tom’s car, and she wanted him to stop (The Great Gatsby). The public blamed it on Gatsby, so Myrtle’s husband killed Gatsby in his mansion to avenge her death (The Great Gatsby). Since Tom and Daisy’s lovers were dead, they left town together (The Great Gatsby). Throughout this whole movie, there was a sign called The Eyes of T.J. Eckleberg that was in the Valley of Ashes (The Great Gatsby). This sign saw everything that happened. This sign knew all