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Journal on the catcher in the rye
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Chapter 1 In the first chapter the main character, Holden Caulfield, is introduced. Holden feels that it is not necessary to tell his whole life story, so he talks about his brother. His brother D. B. is a famous Hollywood writer. After he talks about his brother he begins his life story from the time he was at Pencey Prep, a school in Pennsylvania. Holden is kicked out of Pencey Prep because he failed four of his subjects. The only subject he passed was English. From reading half of the first chapter, Holden comes off to me as a very irresponsible teen. For example, at Pencey he is the manager of the school’s fencing team, on their trip to New York he loses the teams equipment. Another bad thing about Holden is that he is a very heavy smoker. At the end of this chapter he visits his history teacher Mr. Spencer, who he calls Old Spencer, to say good-bye. Chapter 2 Old Spencer is trying to give Holden some advice. It seems to me that Holden and Old Spencer are close by the way they talk. Old Spencer failed Holden, he even reads him the essay Holden wrote which was pretty lame. Holden soon gets tired of listening to Old Spencer, tells him good-bye and goes back to his dorm room. Chapter 3 In this chapter Ackley is introduced, he is a student at Pencey who’s dorm room is next to Holdens. He seems like one of those aggravating people you always get stuck with in your classes that doesn’t have many friends. Like One of those people who ask stupid questions all of the time. He’s also a very rude person and always walks in Holdens room whenever he wants. Their rooms are connected by a shower, so its easier for Ackley to come in whenever he wants. Another character who is introduced in Holden’s roommate, Stradlater. I don’t think Ackley and Stradlater get along. Ackley is always asking questions about him, I think he might be a little jealous. Chapter 4 Holden seems to look up to Stradlater. Stradlater even asks Holden to do his homewook for him because he has a date. Holden then finds out that the girl Stradlater is going on a date with is one of his old friends. The girls name is Jane, and Holden remembers a lot about her. I thought it was funny how Stradlater calls Jane, “Jean”. I think that he is a little bothered about Stradlater going on a date with Jane. Chapter 5 Holden talks about how every Saturday night they have a steak dinner. But he thinks that it is only to impress the parents that visit there on Sundays. When they ask what their boy had for dinner last night, they would say steak. Holden does not seem to have a very good social life. Instead of going to the movies with girls, he goes with two other guys. They get back to their dorm and Holden works on Stradlaters assignment. It seems to me like Holden would do anything Stradlater wants him to do. Holdens brother Allie is introduced in this chapter. The assignment he writes for Stradlater is about his brothers baseball glove that he used to write poems on. His brother Allie died of Leukemia. From what Holden says, Allie was the opposite of him. Allie was intelligent and very innocent. Chapter 6 Stradlater reads the composition that Holden wrote for him and is very mad because it has nothing to do with what he told him to write about. Holden tears it up and throws it away. Then he starts smoking in the room just to annoy him. They get in a fight because Stradlater refuses to tell Holden about his date. Holden goes to Ackleys room with his face bleeding because Stradlater punched him in the nose. Chapter 7 Holden spends the night in Ackleys dorm but can’t seem to get to sleep thinking about Jane and Stradlater.
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