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

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

HOLDEN CAULFIED - SECTION 6

10 comments:

  1. I've only read up to chapter 24 so far, but I have grown to like Holden a lot. In earlier posts, I complained about the way he talks and was annoyed of it, but now that i've gotten to know him better, I think he's hilarious! He's so blunt and says the most random, silly stuff, and I laugh everytime I read the book.

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  2. I think Holden is a very interesting person to get to know throughtout the book. He is very different, as negativ as he is you can still tell that he cares for a lot of things, like his sister Phoebe. Some of the things he said made me laugh.

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  3. I find it very interesting that in chapter 24 Holden says that he may hate guys but not for a very long time. He states that he hates them once and a while but once their gone he kinda misses them. Throughout the book Holden has complained about many people and told us how annoying they are or how he hates them. However right when he says that you know that he doesnt really hate them. Maybe that is why Holden still hangs out with these people that he doesnt really like.

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  4. I find it interesting that Holden didn't change throughout the whole book. I expected that he would finally grow up, but he never did. He does soften up during the last chapter when he says he kind of misses the people he hated, as Clarice said, but he doesn't really change. He still acts childish by wanting to run away and pretend to be a deaf mute, and he doesn't plan to let phonies into his caban he plans to build.

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  5. I found it really interesting at the end of the book when he decides to go back home. I think this shows that he really isn't ready to grow up and live his own life alone.

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  6. I really agree with Kyra, I expected him to grow up and really progress somehow in the book, but in the end everything he thought throughout the book he goes against, and ends up going home. I wasn't really expecting it.

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  7. I disagree with Kyra because I think that Holden does grow up at the end, in the last chapter he mentions that he is seeing a psychoanalyst or something related to that. That is major progress in my opinion. That would very much help him get on track to becoming responsible and mature. I believe that he is a dynamic character, he just decided not to tell us much about the "new" Holden because it wouldn't go with the rest of the story. He told just enough for us to know that he didn't continue his usual ways. He genuinely changed the way he goes through life and the way he thinks.

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  8. I agree with Michael, I feel Holden does make progress at the end of the novel. It was important for this to happen because I personally do not think a person can live happily if they are such a pessimist. I would have liked to witness the "new" Holden, but I found his negative rants kind of interesting in the novel.

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  9. I agree with Michael and Daniel too. Throughout the novel Holden realizes what is really important in life. As he watched Phoebe riding the carousel, I feel that he realized being with people he loves is a better choice then hitchhiking to the west.
    I think he wishes more then anything to just go home, but he's afraid his parents wont accept him. He thinks he's a screw up, so he thinks his family will think the same, he's just ashamed to face them.

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  10. I agree with sarah when Holden is with people he cares about he realizes how happy he actually is other then being alone and not happy. You can tell Holden really does want to go home but is scared which is why he doesnt want to go home untill wednesday if he wasnt scared he would go home as soon as he got kicked out of Pency.

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