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  1. Dec 2019
    1. Simply amazing! It all makes sense. It all makes sense...

      goal to find out what it is

    2. I’m Gatsby.

      End of act 1, Beginning of act 2

    3. is the question...

      NArrative question: WHo is Gatsby? Is Gatsby real? If so, what does he want?

    4. No one, except me, every received an actual invitation to Gatsby’s...

      Inciting Incident: The letter from Gatsby

    5. Mr. Gatsby.

      The mystery of Mr. Gatsby

    6. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

      Daisy's POV

    7. the dominant race,

      race as a theme

    8. the ban on alcohol had backfired... making the liquor cheaper.

      alcoholism, probably a theme

    9. NICK

      Tobey mcGuire

    10. “always try to see the best in people,”

      theme

  2. Oct 2019
    1. seem

      His arguments aren't based on any concrete evidence, it's all based off of biased observations intended to push his agenda. The majority of what he says are huge generalizations which could just as easily be applied to himself and other white people.

  3. www.vincasa.com www.vincasa.com
    1. EUROPEAN

      This character of the European is much more complicated than I originally though, and much more reoccurring. I assume this is because he is meant to be a kind of everyman? Just a stand in for the average refugee in Casablanca.

    2. What upsets me is the fact that Ugarte is dead and no one knows where those letters of transit are. RICK Practically no one.

      Conflict in the story

    3. You're a fat hypocrite. You don't feel any sorrier for Ugarte than I do.

      No one can say that Rick isn't blunt

    4. blue parrot

      le blue parrot?

    5. It is my duty to see that you stay in Casablanca.

      Strasser's goal in Casablanca.

    6. That's strange. Nobody is supposed to sleep well in Casablanca.

      They almost treat Casablanca as person, as a deity it feels. Now so much worshipping but in awe.

    7. But we mustn't underestimate American blundering.

      Nonchalant attitude from other nations towards America, defying those expectations in Rick

    8. uh. I guess neither one of our stories was very funny.

      extremely bitter and heartbroken also whats the age difference between these two characters?

    9. Raindrops pour down the letter, smudging the writing.

      Dramatic, I should do this

    10. There is a hectic, fevered excitement, evident in the facesof the people that pass by. This is the last train from Paris.

      The last escape from the Nazi invasion, everyone wants to be on it.

    11. I stick my neck out for nobody

      Reiteration of his creed

    12. Especially so tonight, Major. In a few minutes you will see the arrest of the man who murdered your couriers.

      grand promises, maybe like the promise of Casablanca itself, empty

    13. Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this cafe, but we know that you have never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.

      He allows illegal acts, he simply doesn't do any himself so thats why its okay

    14. A little demonstration of the efficiency of my administration.

      Renault's motivation, he's a showman in a way.

    15. RENAULT You know, Rick, we could have made this arrest earlier in the evening at the Blue Parrot, but out of my high regard for you we are staging it here. It will amuse your customers.

      He wants to threaten his customers.

    16. RICK -- Forget it, Emil. Mistakes like that happen all the time

      He doesn't seem too upset, rather like a father comforting a child who spilled milk. 20,000 francs is a large sum of money.

    17. Rick still looks in the direction of the airport.

      He was fooled into coming, and now he's trapped here. Probably all of what he said was a lie except for that he was misinformed. Why is he still there?

    18. Rick stands and looks up at the revolving beacon light fromthe airport. It intermittently sheds its light on Rick'sface.

      Shows that Rick also wants to leave this place, intermittent light shows that he keeps missing his opportunity?

    19. Rick and Yvonne come out of the cafe. He puts a coat overher shoulders and she objects violently. YVONNE Who do you think you are, pushing me around? What a fool I was to fall for a man like you.

      Is this genuine care from Rick, or the necessity to get her out of his bar and maintain a sense of stability in his bar?

    20. I never make plans that far ahead.

      Rick is always in the moment, he doesn't remember yesterday, he doesn't think about tomorrow.

    21. That's so long ago, I don't remember.

      Is it because he was so drunk?

    22. RICK It's not for sale at any price

      Highly attached to his bar, may be all that he has

    23. Yeah, I heard a rumor that those German couriers were carrying letters of transit.

      Drama

    24. Letters of transit signed by General de Gaulle. Cannot be rescinded, not even questioned.Rick appears ready to take them form Ugarte.

      Heavy price tag. Visa's are the currency in Casablanca.

    25. I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.

      He doesn't scam, as his morality dictates, and he objects to those who do it

    26. If I gave you any thought, I probably would.

      well okay

    27. Fearing to offend Rick, Ugarte laughs.

      He is both a feared and beloved man. Beloved because of what he can do for them. Feared because of what he can do to them.

    28. Rick looks at the German calmly, takes the card out of hishand, and tears it up.

      Powerful man, nothing fazes him at this point. Probably drunk

    29. Of all the nerve! Who do you think... I know there's gambling in there! There's no secret. You dare not keep me out of here!

      Doesn't matter if theres no proof

    30. We now see RICK, sitting at a table alone playing solitarychess. Rick is an American of indeterminate age. There isno expression on his face -- complete deadpan.

      Loner, intelligent, worldly man, neither old or young. Limbo

    31. The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.

      Whether or not this is true, this is a valuable detail about the kinds of people in Casablanca, rich or poor, war comes for you

    32. Madame, he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen him.

      Exclusiveness, building up this is a type of protection?

    33. He stops abruptly as two German officers walk by

      Many illegal things going on in this nightclub

    34. Rick's is an expensive and chic nightclub which definitelypossesses an air of sophistication and intrigue

      Oasis of sorts?

    35. I have already heard about this cafe, and also about Mr. Rick himself.

      Heavy reputation, even in Germany

    36. Unoccupied France welcomes you to Casablanca

      Highly specific, Renault doesn't like the Nazi's

    37. In theirfaces is revealed one hope they all have in common, and theplane is the symbol of that hope.

      The goal of everyone in Casablanca is to not be there, to be on one of those planes and fly away. This will drive many of the sub-characters actions throughout the story.

    38. Unfortunately, along with these unhappy refugees the scum of Europe has gravitated to Casablanca. Some of them have been waiting years for a visa.

      Description of the state of the kind of people in Casablanca, some refugees, some scum.

    39. A EUROPEAN man, sitting at a table nearby, watches theEnglish couple more closely than the scene on the street.

      What are the circumstances of these people, does it matter?

    40. A shot RINGS out, and the man falls to the ground. Abovehim, painted on the wall, is a large poster of MarshalPetain, which reads: "Je tiens mes promesses, meme cellesdes autres."

      Demonstration of the situation of Casablanca. Everyone is a suspect, it's dangerous, and hypocritical. The French means that he keeps his promises, or something among those lines. Casablanca is purgatory.

    41. To all officers! Two German couriers carrying important official documents murdered on train from Oran. Murderer and possible accomplices headed for Casablanca. Round up all suspicious characters and search them for stolen documents. Important!

      Inciting Incident: murder of the two officers.

    42. The intense desert sun holds the scene in a torpidtranquility.

      This restraint is similar to the restraint of the Nazi's at the same time.

    43. But the others wait in Casablanca -- and wait -- and wait -- and wait.

      Establishing Casablanca as a type of limbo, this description/characteristic of the city is manifestation of the mental state of Rick Blaine.

    1. Debates over the French Revolution in the 1790s gave Americans some of their earliest opportunities to articulate what it meant to be American. Did American national character rest on a radical and universal vision of human liberty? Or was America supposed to be essentially pious and traditional, an outgrowth of Great Britain? They couldn’t agree. It was on this cracked foundation that many conflicts of the nineteenth century would rest.

      America was such a young country thrusted into the chaoticness of the world. It didn't have a culture or an identity to guide them through their actions.

    2. By 1798, the people of Charleston watched the ocean’s horizon apprehensively because they feared the arrival of the French navy at any moment. Many people now worried that the same ships that had aided Americans during the Revolutionary War might discharge an invasion force on their shores.

      America is at an extremely fragile stage in their history. If the French were to come, there'd be little hope that they could successfully mount a defense.

  4. Sep 2019
    1. speaking dozens of languages,

      This feels like the hundredth time he has mentioned that there are a lot of languages. I wonder why he keeps on choosing to emphasize this point?

    2. North America’s indigenous peoples shared some broad traits. Spiritual practices, understandings of property, and kinship networks differed markedly from European arrangements.

      It's interesting how that was consistent through the Western World for tens of thousands of years while in AfroEurasia it varied so much.

    3. Agriculture arose sometime between nine thousand and five thousand years ago, almost simultaneously in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Mesoamericans in modern-day Mexico and Central America relied on domesticated maize (corn) to develop the hemisphere’s first settled population around 1200 BCE.8

      The reason why agriculture was developed in the Eastern hemisphere was that humanity could produce fermented grain (beer). It's interesting that in the Western Hemisphere it had a more nutritional reason.

    1. Miller's play implies what could be if the powerful, who prey upon the powerless, would stop to see how their dishonesty, greed, and self-interest constitute processes of Darwinian cannibaliza

      what does this mean?

    2. ." The Crucible is a play that dramatizes manifestations of fear that arise when humans lose their way because they have lost each other

      is this an argument for strong communities?

    3. that, "The only thing that we have to fear is fear itself

      some of the worst things humans do stems from fear

    4. After sixty years, productions of Arthur Miller's The Crucible continue to provide an essential space for dissident voices, representations, and means of action for people throughout the world fighting against tyranny

      even though the crucible is meant to speak to McCarthyism, it still holds its stance as a universal story

    5. I thought he got crap from the HUAC after he wrote the crucible, not before?

    6. Humanity is always so eager to point a finger and blame, like a scape goat for their problems

    7. h- it creates a bond with its audience from which they cannot surface unsc

      sign of a good story, no bad stories do that

    8. I had no idea it was the same thing, death of a salesman is a fascinating piece of literature that I haven't been fortunate enough to read yet

    9. An important writing that still sells popcorn

    10. The world changes, but human nature doesn't

    1. the day is not distant when the Empires of the Atlantic and Pacific would again flow together into one

      what does he refer to in saying "would again"?

    2. The Anglo-Saxon foot is already on its borders. Already the advance guard of the irresistible army of Anglo-Saxon emigration has begun to pour down upon it, armed with the plough and the rifle, and marking its trail with schools and colleges, courts and representative halls, mills and meeting-houses.

      Is this meant to represent racially superiority of Anglo-Saxons, or simply to represent the American demographic at the time compared to the native demographic?

    3. Imbecile and distracted, Mexico never can exert any real governmental authority over such a country.

      Meant to be evidence that America has god on its side?

    4. It was an independence, not only in fact, but of right.

      It was the god given right of Texas to be independent but also the god given right of America to take it?

    5. She is no longer to us a mere country on the map. She comes within the dear and sacred designation of Our Country

      Extreme nationalism, "now that Texas is a part of our nation, it matters" seems to be the gist of what he's saying

    6. the world in the transition to democracy.

      basically the cold war? trying to spread democracy amidst other governmental systems (aka communism)