"The Catcher in the Rye" Tarkan Arpa Author from the Book Jerome David Salinger: Jerome David Salinger is the Author of the Book "the Catcher in the Rye". He was born in 1 January 1919 and he died in January 27 2010. He was an American Author for most known for his Novel 1951 "the Catcher in the Rye". He raised in Manhattan. As a young child he started writing short stories. And he published some several stories before the World War 2. His first Story was started by Whit Burnett. When he got really famous was when he published the Novel Catcher in the Rye. There are a lot of more stories so please go on Wikipedia.org if you want to find out more about him. The Catcher in the Rye is a novel made published in 1951 by Jerome David Salinger. It was originally published for adults. But it has since become popular with adolescent readers, because it has things like language, angst teenage confusion etc. It has been translated into all major languages and they are around 250,000 copies sold for each Year. The major character Holden Caulfield has become a famous icon for the teenage rebellion.
The Story is about a boy called Holden Caulfield who switched school in New York. And like every teenager in the puberty he has problems and wants to solve it in his own way. Vocabulary: Holden uses in the novel The Catcher in the Rye unnecessary vocabulary like Moron or Bastard! It was ever warned on the Logo of the Book. So let Us Focus about something else. Comment [JB1]: All this information was gathered from the Internet. It is fined that you used it, but you need to cite it. You also need to incorporate it more effectively into the assignment description. How did Salinger s life inform his writing of the book? How does this information change how you read the book? Comment [JB2]: What effect does this vocabulary have on the book? What does is mean to grow up? To grow up has a lot of meanings. But it is really one process. People say that growing up is when someone thinks less of himself and care for the others, to go working and start to don't be childish anymore. For other people it means that the time passes. To have more knowledge that can help him to understand and resist the challenges of the life will give them. In my own words growing up is something else. For me it is that things in yourself change in time. You get older and start to get more knowledge. Even if your body changes. That is growing up,too. So the choice to grow up is not on you. It is your brain and your body choice when you grow up. This is my description about growing up. But there are many other descriptions. Discussion Questions: Comment [JB3]: Since this is the unit question, I expect you to devote more reflection and analysis to it. This is a good start, but I would expect you to develop it more. 1.Why does Holden trust his sister Phoebe so much? Holden trusts his sister Phoebe so much mostly because he really loves her and thinks that he raised her up. He also trusts her because he thinks that older people, such as his parents, don t understand him and don t care a lot about him so much. 2. Why does Holden not like movies and Hollywood? Holden Caulfield hates movies and Hollywood because he thinks that thanks to that, his brother s huge talent is being wasted.
3. Why does Holden start missing the characters from his old School? Holden always spoke about how it killed him to be with those morons in a school. But after a while he started to live with that and missed them at the end. 4. Why did Holden sad not the truth to Ernie s Mother? Holden Caulfield was lying to Ernie s Mother because he wanted that she does not know what he does. Holden Caulfield Comment [JB4]: Why did you choose these questions? Are they the most important questions to ask when reading the book? Holden Caulfield is the main Character of the Book "The Catcher in the Rye". He is 16 Years old and gets afterwards 17 years in the story. Like every teenager in the puberty Holden Caulfield has problems to grow up. So his main goal is that he wants to know What does it means to grow up?. As he describes himself in the Book he is saying that he is always lying. So he is an "Unreliable Narrator. Holden has many problems in the story and when you will read the book you will read how he tries to solve those problems. Quotes & Analysis: 1. I m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It s awful. If I m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I m going, I m liable to say I m going to the opera. It s terrible Chapter 3 In this quote Holden is introducing himself to the reader. Because this quote has manly two meanings. First he is being for the first time really onest to the reader because he is saying that he lies, and second, he is warning the reader that he is lying a lot. So he is being an Unreliable Narrator! 2."Boy, when you re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense
enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you re dead? Nobody. Chapter 20 In this quote Holden reflects on the idea of dying, and how he thinks about that cemeteries don t make any sense. In another way of, Holden is trying to show us that he thinks no one is going to miss him, and would feel embarrassed if he was in a cemetery and no one would put flowers to him on Sundays. Comment [JB5]: How does this make Holden feel? How did it make you feel after reading this? 3. "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." Last chapter 26 In this quote it starts to speak about how Holden starts to miss the characters of the book. In the whole story he just wrote so much hate about the. How it killed him to be with them but at the end he is saying a true point. That he start missing the people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here is one Quote that I really like and wanted to show you but it is not mine it is from Sergio s Work: But the thing was, I d made that date to go to a matinee with old Sally Hayes, and I needed to keep some dough for the tickets and stuff. I was sorry anyway, though. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. p. 102 Holden Caulfield tries to explain how hard it is to deal with money. This also connects to the idea of growing up because as you grow up, you usually get more money and have to try to handle with it in good ways. He also tries to show how much he cares and how he considers Sally Hayes a good friend, as he tries to spend his money on having a good time with her. -------------------------------------------------------------- My opinion about the Book! The Catcher in the Rye is a book about a boy called Holden Caulfield who tries to live with no Help. He switches to a school in New York and that makes it interesting. I really like it that in this book is a lot of humour. For example that Holden says so much funny quotes. I would recommend the book to teenagers. It is really funny and the themes are not that boring. And here are my Journals that we did over the Year about the Catcher in the Rye Comment [JB6]: I m glad that you liked it and learned something about it for yourself.
Journals! Holden! Journal 1 Friend, which reminds me of fun. Fun, which reminds me of having a good time. Having a good time which reminds me of summer holidays. Summer holidays, which reminds me of being free. Journal 2 Holden is always having his hat on. The colour of his hat is red. The hat is made for the winter. He is having his hat the normal way on ort he other way around. It makes him different to bet he only one in the school whit that red hat. Journal 3 My first Week was miserable. It killed me that I saw so many morons in my School. That wasn t funny at all. They are so annoying and yeah that s not going to be nice for me. Journal 4 I think Holden was to shy to speak with Jane. The reason is why he was so shy is because he loves her really much and it would be harder if he speaks with her again because than he has to think about her again. And that makes it for it for him really hard because he would get sad again and he would miss her more. Journal 5
In the Book, when it says that Holden, is speaking to someone else in the Train. He was saying that he is Rudolf Schmidt. I think Holden is saying that because he wants that no one knows what he does. Journal 6 In my life there is a person who I would always call for help. The person is my dad. For a teenager it sounds a bit weird to call his dad as a person who I trust mostly. But the reason is why I would call my dad is because he never failed on helping me. When I have some problems he is the only one who is most interested. We have some same taste. For example we like to got eat pizza together. Or we go together swimming. Journal 7 Unreliable Narrator / The Narrator wants to make you believe him when he is saying not the truth or is letting things out of a situation. Holden is not saying the truth always. So he is an Unreliable narrator. For Example when he called the girl from Princeton College at midnight. He was saying that he is on the same school and would know people like a guy called Eddie. Journal 8 Holden always goes to the Museum because of an important point. He used to go as a child with his young sister to the Museum. If I would be the Narrator of the Book, I would always go to the Park. The reason is why I would go there is because, as a child I
always played there with my friends and my family. And those Memories make me feel happy. Journal 9 Fuck You is a bad word. People always say it to someone if they are angry to the person. I know it was Mr. Brightman. I think that Holden got sick when he saw that. Because when he saw that he was thinking why would you do that in this place? Journal 10 Holden has a lot of Sings and Symptoms of Depression. He has Emotional, Physical, Behavioural and Thought/Perceptions Depressions. For example he speaks often so hopelessness or he has Loss of Motivation. I never meet a guy with those Depressions. But I heard that this makes someone feel really bad. Journal 11 I think it is not possible to go the same way like Holden that no one knows where he is. You can t just leave a place and let no one know about it. It is always the best to solve his problems with his best friend. But running away like Holden Caulfield is childish! I hope you liked my reflection Comment [JB7]: Good journals overall, but I would like you to develop your writing more and challenge yourself to expand on your ideas overall.