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Catcher has been banned from many schools for its language and content. What's your opinion?

Friday, November 20, 2009

CHARACTERS - SECTION 4

Lots of characters -- what do you think of them?
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9 comments:

  1. Danielle-EwachaNovember 21, 2009 at 12:01 PM

    In section four there's a lot of characters that Holden encounters, and gets in fights with. As well he talks about people he used to go to school with and how he hated mostly everyone of them. In chapter 14, after sending the prostitute out of his room he starts thinking about Allie again. I think maybe Allie is someone he confides in when he gets really depressed. He also thinks back to this guy he used to go to school with, Arthur Childs. Childs was a quaker and read the bible all the time. He was a very nice kid, but he coulde never see eye to eye with Holden about the Bible. They had many different views on it. Anyways while lying on his bed he gets a knock on his door. Its the elevator guy and the prositute. They start yelling at Holden because he didn't pay all the money to the prostitute. I guess the elevator guy is her pimp, so he beats up Holden and runs out the door with the five extra dollars.

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  2. Danielle-EwachaNovember 21, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    In chapter 15, the next morning when Holden wakes up he calls up Sally Hayes to hang out for the day. Holden had known her for many years. Sally went to Mary A. Woodruff school and was very intelligent. She knew a lot about the theatre. Holden and Sally decide to meet up at Biltmore at noon. So to waste some time, Holden goes for breakfast. He meets two very nice nuns at the diner who strike up a conversation with them. They have two very worn out suitcases, which Holden starts judging on them right away. He doesn't like when people have old looking suitcases, which doesn't make any sense at all. Just like a guy he went to school with, Dick Slagle. Holden didn't like him very much because he was poor and had very inexpensive suitcases. Holden has no sympathy for unwealthy people and tend he tends to have much hate towards them.

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  3. Kirsty Weston-GruszeckyNovember 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM

    The character Dick Slagle seems to be jealous of Holden. When he roomed wiht Holden at Elkton Hills he took Holden's expensive suitcases from under his bed and put them back on the rack so people would think they were his. He would try to insult Holden by saying that his suitcases were "too new and bourgeois" and that a lot of his possessions were bourgeois. Holden also says that at first Dick Slagle was just kidding about what he said but after a while you could tell he wasn't. He seems to be the type of person that uses humor to say his opinions so that way he doesn't offend people.

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  4. Danielle-EwachaNovember 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    In chapter 16-18 there's only one other character thats introduced, Carl Luce. Luce graduated from Whooton school after Holden left. He's three years older then Holden. Holden doesn't like him very much because he has a very high I.Q., which Holden doesn't have. Even though Holden doesn't like him very much he still calls him up for some drinks at Wicker Bar on 54th. Holden seems to be very lonely so he calls up random people to hang out with, even though he's not very good friends with them.

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  5. Marc..November 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    Through the following chapters, Holden meets some nice and some not so nice characters through his adventures.He starts off reminiscing about Arthur Childs from Whooton School and how they argued about Jesus and the disciples. He meets Sunny the prostitute and her partner Maurice, Holden does not have a very good encounter with these two people. He gets punched by Maurice and gets five bucks taken away from him because he had that prostitute sent up to his room and didn't pay for the full price. Then he starts to think about Sally Hayes who was from Mary A Woodruff so he phones her then asks her to go to a matinee and Sally was glad to go and so they had both agreed to meet up at Biltmore at two o'clock. After that Holden had gone out for breakfast and met these two nuns that he had some interesting conversations with, then Holden thinks about his old roommate Dick Slagle from Elkton Hills who he had fun with but ended up not liking him because Holden had better things than Dick. While waiting for Sally, Holden starts to make his way to the Biltmore then he meets his old acquaintance from Whooton School Carl Luce who was a very smart guy. But Holden was not a very big fan of Carl because he was very intelligent but Holden still asks Carl to go out for drinks at a wicker bar on 54th street.

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  6. AmirPNovember 23, 2009 at 1:44 PM

    Sally Hayes, she went to Mary.A.Woodruff she very enthuastic character and loves talking about herself. When she was talking to Holden over the phone we find out that she is men adoring her left to right and she loved to brag about that to Holden. Holden comments her to be very acknowledged in theaters, plays and Literature. Sally knows Holden for many years and they used to get in lots of trouble with each other. They basically argued all the time as Holden discribe her to be intelligent when they used to fight.

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  7. JasmineNovember 23, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    We also meet a guy named George in chapter 17 but Holden just refers to him as Andover since that's the school he went to. "Andover" seems like a typical "social". He is a rich kid that likes to show off his knowledge. He knew Sally and they talked for a bit about the play that the Lunts were in. It was apparently the "phoniest conversation ever". Holden was appauled at their conversation and really disliked this Andover boy since he weasled in on their date.

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  8. ChelseyNovember 23, 2009 at 3:06 PM

    When Holden got into the tiff with Maurice and Sunny about owing 5 bucks, I would've stood up to them too. When someone tells you it costs a certain price then charges you something else, once the deals up you can't take back what you first said. First off, Holden and Sunny didn't do anything but talk and she wasn't doing much of that with him anyways. I feel like Holden depends on Allie to listen to him when he's depressed like he said he does. I feel like he turns to Allie to understand him because he doesn't really have anyone else that he's close to to run too. Holden brings up Arhtur Childs who's a Quaker like Danielle said. They had their different views on the Bible. In chapter 15 Holden brings up Sally Hayes. Holden describes her as being stupid, but intelligent about threatres and plays and such. He finds her phony, and a pain in the butt but very good looking. Holden did run into two nuns at the train station. Holden met some girl at the park skating who knew his sister Phoebe, she was real nice and polite to him.

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  9. Kayla JacobsenNovember 24, 2009 at 8:31 AM

    I think that the doorman that Holden recieved the prostitute from is a big coward and needs to feel powerful. He sells girls for a living! Obviously he'll feel strong and powerful when he's dealing with girls with low self estem who are scared of him. Also, he was picking on Holden because he could see how skinny Holden was. He brought Sunny along so that she could see he was tough and what not.

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