Chapter 19: Catcher, The Wicker Bar

Even Holden didn't like Luce, he didn't want to see Luce go because he is depressed and lonely. Holden feels that no one cares about him. Since he is running out of people to call, Holden is starting to realize people don't like him and the people he is with get annoyed of him. At this point Holden doesn't care who he is with, he just to know someone is there for him. 

Chapter 15: Holden and Mercutio

I think Holden identifies with Mercutio and not Tybalt because like Mercutio is doesn't like people who show off and are into the latest fashions. Through out the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden talks with complete strangers who aren't in the same financial status as he is. For example Holden  talks to Horowitz, the cab driver, who isn't showy. Also I think Holden is like Mercutio because they both get angered but can control it.

Ch. 12, Catcher: Conversation with Horowitz

Horowitz is a rude, nasty, and unfriendly. He doesn't care to talk to Holden about the ducks or anything at all. He just want to get Holden to the clubs and get paid. Horowitz Holden on the other hand is over friendly and invites the cab diver to get a drink. Holden is trying to make conversation even though some of what he is saying are lies. Also Holden is comes form a very rich family and Horowitz, a cab driver, is poor and doesn't make much money. Holden always tries to analyze thing and find out why thinks happen and Horowitz doesn't want to know why things happen, be thinks it things and we shouldn't want to understand why, they just happen do.

Allie's Writing Assignment

Acrostic 

Smooth pencil strokes 

Khaki 

Escape form reality 

Time flies why you are having fun 

Calming my nerves 

Hot Magenta 

Balance 

Over dramatic colors

Ochre 

Keep trying 

Haiku 

Eraser Sheddings

Skills are achieved over time

Practice makes Perfect 

Fire and Ice 

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire 

I hold with those who favor fire

But if i had to perish twice 

I think i know enough of hate

To say destructive ice is also great 

And would suffice 

~Robert Frost 

Little Fly 

Little Fly,

Thy summer's play

My thoughtless hand

Has brush'd away.

Am not I

A fly like thee?

Or art not thou

A man like me?

For I dance

And drink & sing:

Till some blind hand 

Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life

And strength & breath

And the want 

Of thought is death;

Then am I

A happy fly,

If I live,

Or if I die

~William Blake 

Catcher Ch. 8: Holden's Conversation on the Train

Dear Ernest, 

How are you? I had the funniest encounter will one of you fellow student on the train the other day. I think his name was Rudolf Schmdit. He was quite an awkward child. But he told me that you have a lot of friends of a Prency Prep and that you many of your peers like you. He also told me that you turned down the offer to be class president. I'm trying to be rude, but after all these year your father and I were sitting here thinking you were a sensitive. To be honest, I don't believe everything Rudolf told me. He said he was leaving early from Prency because he had a brian tumor, but I would think that his family would have came to pick him up. Well, I  guess I'll finish asking you questions when you come home. See you soon.

Love always, 

Mom

My Object

- rough 

- black

- eraser shedding 

- can be bought at an art store 

- used to express yourself and your thoughts 

- pencil smudges 

Catcher in the Rye: Mark David Chapman

1. What happened at the scene of the shooting? Where did this take place?
The shooting took place on December 8,1980 outside the Dakota apartment building in New York. At around 10:49 p.m., Chapman, who had received an autograph form Lennon earlier, shot 5 bullet at Lennon. Four of which hit Lennon in his back and shoulder. Instead of fleeing the site Chapman took out a copy of Catcher in the Rye and 

read it until the police arrived.

2. What behavior on the part of Chapman set the stage for this amoral act?
Chapman had ran away form home which can led us to believe that he may have had a troubling childhood. Also he was emotionally unstable and he tried to commit suicide twice. Chapman was a Beatles fan and on the morning of the shooting while leaving the Sheration hotel he signed out as John Lennon and crossed it out and then signed his own name.

3. Why do you think Chapman felt a connection with Holden and the Catcher in the Rye?

I think Chapman felt a connection with Holden because both are emotional unstable. Also both may have felt as they were social pariah because people treating then different and no one could truly relate and understand them.