Jennifer Hong
Jan. 15, 2012
My conclusion to both stories is similar to my comparison. Again, I enjoyed The Great Gatsby a lot more than Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five surprised me because I didn't expect there to be alien abduction and that kind of stuff in the book (pg. 52). At first I thought this was just some crazy stuff. I supposed the whole point of this book was to talk about a massacre, war, and all of that; to express the horrors and pains that had gone on back then. I think the time traveling and aliens was just a plus so that the story wasn't totally boring like a lot of other historical type novels. In a way, I like the ending, but in another, I don't like it. I like how it ended with the bird "asking him a question" (pg. 101). It signifies that none of this violence will end or something. I don't like it cuz the ending is just like the rest of the book. He's still time travelling and meeting aliens (pg. 99-100), and there was no climax. It feels like I read all of that for nothing because nothing new or good or bad happened; nothing ending or started.
As for The Great Gatsby, I liked it more. It was more of an ending. It sucked how Gatsby died (pg. 178) but I guess thats why i made me feel there was an ending. I think everything was put in place at the end unlike Slaughterhouse-Five. Seeing the obscene words on Gatsby's mansion, Nick realized things (pg. 200) which made me feel like there was ending more.
For both books there were many twists and turns; surprises and expected things. They were both interesting in differet ways, but still, The Great Gatsby took my attention more.
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