The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

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Sequence- The puma was getting tortured once again by Moreau. When the puma hits Moreau in the head and escapes. Prendick saw an awful face rushing upon me, not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lidless eyes ablaze. Prendick was just outside the door and was pushed violently by the puma consequently, breaking his left arm. Moreau chased the puma with his pistol. Conflict- Moreau didn't return back to the enclosure that night. Therefore, Montgomery knew something was wrong. Theme- Moreau was right when he said to puma would be different then the other beast people he had created. he was right. However, it was not favorable to him. Chapter Eighteen: The Finding of …show more content…

Now that Moreau is dead Montgomery is unsure on his purpose on the island. he morns the death of a friend. Montgomery knows he cant leave the island he calls his home. He has nothing left in society. All he has is the beast people he has grown to care about. Montgomery starts to drink with some beast. While Prendick was looking for things to help his escape there was screaming and Montgomery called for him. When Prendick arrived at the beach he shot to the sky and scared some beast people back to the jungle. Montgomery was laying on his back, a dead brute still had his claws around his throat. M’ling was dead on the ground his throat was bitten open. Two other beast on the ground as well. While attending Montgomery the enclosure was on fire from the lamp Prendick accidentally dropped. Prendick tried to find the boats on the beach but they were gone Montgomery sent them on fire so that they couldn't return to …show more content…

Prendick thought,“In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more. I felt that for Montgomery there was no help; that he was, in truth, half akin to these Beast Folk, unfitted for human kindred” (pg. 138). Montgomery died on pg 141 Chapter Twenty: Alone With The Beast Folk Plot Sequence- Prendick was now alone with the beast. He tells the beast people to take the dead bodies to the ocean. Conflict- Prendick remembered what Montgomery and Moreau once said, “the reason of Montgomery’s despair. ‘they will change,’ he said; ‘they are sure to change.’ And Moreau, what was it that Moreau had said? The stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again.’” There was no food. Character- Prendick wants to kill the Hyena-swine because it was a threat. Chapter Twenty-One: The Reversion of The Beast Folk

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