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Journal of “The Catcher in the Rye”
Friday 14th, September, 2012
Chapter 1
Summary
As the novel opens, the narrator,Holden Caufield, speaks directly. He says that he will tell us of eventsoccurring around Christmastime of the previous year. First, however, he mentions his older brother, D.B., a writer who now works in nearby Hollywood and visits Holden nearly every weekend.
Holden'sstory, begins around 3 p.m. on a Saturday in December, the day of the traditional season-ending football match between his old school, Pencey Prep and Saxon Hall. Holden, a junior at Pencey, can seethe field from where he stands, high atop Thomsen Hill. He has been expelled and is on his way to say good-bye to Mr. Spencer, his history instructor. At the end of the chapter, Holden arrives at Mr.Spencer's house and is let in by his teacher's wife.
Analysis
Since the beginning of the book we can deduce that Holden is an adolescent that is not very happy with his actual situation and withhis life in general. We he talks about his forming high school he does it in a very derogatory way, he tell us that he does not like that high school because people there are really materialistic anddo not care about anything but money, but we can deduce that the real reason he dislikes that high school is because he has been expelled from there and that is one of the various failures he hasmade in his life, so he normally shows a negative attitude to Pencey high school.
Holden is a young person that does not care about almost anything, his grades are a good example of this, the onlysubject he did not fail was English because he really likes it and cares about it, but the rest, as he does not like them, he fails terribly and not because he is not intelligent but because he does notstudy at all. This kind of behaviour is common in many high class boys because as they have been given everything since the very beginning they tend to forget about getting things with their own...
Friday 14th, September, 2012
Chapter 1
Summary
As the novel opens, the narrator,Holden Caufield, speaks directly. He says that he will tell us of eventsoccurring around Christmastime of the previous year. First, however, he mentions his older brother, D.B., a writer who now works in nearby Hollywood and visits Holden nearly every weekend.
Holden'sstory, begins around 3 p.m. on a Saturday in December, the day of the traditional season-ending football match between his old school, Pencey Prep and Saxon Hall. Holden, a junior at Pencey, can seethe field from where he stands, high atop Thomsen Hill. He has been expelled and is on his way to say good-bye to Mr. Spencer, his history instructor. At the end of the chapter, Holden arrives at Mr.Spencer's house and is let in by his teacher's wife.
Analysis
Since the beginning of the book we can deduce that Holden is an adolescent that is not very happy with his actual situation and withhis life in general. We he talks about his forming high school he does it in a very derogatory way, he tell us that he does not like that high school because people there are really materialistic anddo not care about anything but money, but we can deduce that the real reason he dislikes that high school is because he has been expelled from there and that is one of the various failures he hasmade in his life, so he normally shows a negative attitude to Pencey high school.
Holden is a young person that does not care about almost anything, his grades are a good example of this, the onlysubject he did not fail was English because he really likes it and cares about it, but the rest, as he does not like them, he fails terribly and not because he is not intelligent but because he does notstudy at all. This kind of behaviour is common in many high class boys because as they have been given everything since the very beginning they tend to forget about getting things with their own...
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