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

Monday, November 23, 2009

PLOT - SECTION 5

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  1. Kirsty Weston-GruszeckyNovember 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM

    In chapter 19 it starts off with Holden sitting at the Wicker Bar in the Seton Hotel waiting for Carl Luce to show up. He orders a drink and once Carl arrives he says he has to leave soon because he has a date. Holden starts asking him about sex quite alot because Carl Luce used to talk about it with the boys when they were at Whooton School. Luce begins to get annoyed with Holden's questions, but yet Holden says he finds Luce annoying because he doesn't want to talk about his personal life. Holden wants Carl to stay but he begins to get up to leave. Before he does Holden asks about Luce's father and how he had suggested to Holden about have a psychoanalization.
    In chapter 20 it continues with Holden sitting in the bar till 1 am getting really drunk. He wants to call Jane so he goes out to the telephone booth to call her, but changes his mind and calls Sally Hayes. She tells him that he's drunk and to go home and go to bed. After she hangs up he stays in the phonebooth for a while then goes to the mens room back inside the bar. He washes his face and the piano man comes in and Holden starts talking to him and asks him to give Valencia his compliments. He then goes to the hat check room crying because he's deoressed and lonely. While there he tries to make a date with the lady working, who says she's old enough to be his mother. He tries to tell her he's 42 and shows her his gray hair. He walks to Madison Avenue and then to Central Park to the lake and can't find any ducks, so he sits down on a bench. He starts thinking about what would happen if he died and what his funeral would be like, and starts talking about Allie and how he doesn't like cemeteries because of people putting flowers on you and it raining on you all the time. He is no longer drunk anymore so he decides that he's going go home and sneak it to see Pheobe.

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  2. Danielle-EwachaNovember 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    I agree with your plot. In chapter 19, when Holden goes to the bar he observes everyone else in the bar and of course starts judging them and calling them all phonies. Holden talks about the Bartender and how he's a real snob. Holden is very critical over others in this chapter. When Carl Luce comes to the bar, right off the bat Holden starts talking about non sense and asking Luce about his chinese girlfriend and his sex life. He seems so interested and never stops with the questions, until Luce tells him to stop with his stupid questions. They order drinks and its really awkward. Holden mentions how he should go to china to improve his sex life?? Finally Luce leaves because he says he has a date to go to. Afterwards, in chapter 20 Holden gets madly drunk because I think he's depressed that he's all alone and everyone is really irritated with him right now. Holden thinks about giving Jane Gallagher a call, so he goes to a phone booth but then decides to call up Sally Hayes. Sally's grandmother answers and Holden starts yelling at her to put Sally on the phone, but she's asleep. Finally Sally answers and right off the bat Holden starts saying how he will come over on christmas eve to trim her tree. After the phone call he goes to the bathroom and soaks his head in the sink. He starts crying because he's really depressed, cold and lonely. So Holden decides to go to the lake with all the ducks in it. When he arrives there he starts worrying that he's going to get pneumonia because there's chunks of ice in his hair and he can't stop shivering. He starts imagining if he were to die and what his funeral would be like. Then Holden starts thinking about Allie's cementary and how he used to visit him with the family. It makes Holden very angry when thinking about it because he misses his brother a lot. In the end Holden decides to go home and sneak in to see his sister Phoebe.

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  3. Danielle-EwachaNovember 23, 2009 at 7:51 PM

    In chapter 21, Holden goes home to see Phoebe. When he gets to the apartement he notices that there's a dumb new elevator boy, which is good because it would be easier for him to sneak up to his apartement. Holden tells the guy that he's the Dicksteins nephew so he wouldn't seem suspicious of Holden. When he gets dropped off at his floor, he quickly runs to his apartement and opens the door. Right when he walks in, Holden feels at home with the everything around him. He heads for Phoebe's room very quietly, so his mom wouldn't hear him. It takes Holden an hour to get to her room, but she isn't sleeping in their. So he goes to D.B.'s room because Phoebe usually sleeps their when D.B. is away. He turns on the light in D.B.'s room, but Phoebe doesn't wake up. Holden wonders around his brothers room for awhile and snoops through Phoebe's notes. He's really impressed with her because her spelling is so good and she's so smart in every subject. Holden gets inpatient and finally awakes Phoebe. She instantly is wide awake and gives Holden a huge hug. Phoebe asks if Holden got her letter about the play she's in. She also mentions that their parents aren't home because they went to a party. Holden is less tense because he can spend time with Phoebe without getting caught. Holden gives Phoebe the broken record he bought her. She still takes it because she loves the artist. Phoebe asks why Holden is home before Wednesday. Holden tries making up a lie that he got let out earlier, but Phoebe figures out he got kicked out. She gets really mad and lies down with her pillow of her head and ignores Holden. He gets fed up and goes into the living room for a smoke.

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  4. AmirPNovember 24, 2009 at 1:59 PM

    In chapter 19 Holden is at a bar sitting there being the same as always. When Carl Luce comes in Holden decides to show his opinion with Luce and becomes a personal matter when Holden Mentions luce's girlfriend and tells him about his sexlife and how he should improve it even though he is a complete virgin with no knowledge about sex or woman at that fact.

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  5. ChelseyNovember 24, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    Just like Kristy and Danielle said, Holden went to the Wicker Bar and started calling everyone phonies who go there and how the bar tender was a snob. If everyone who goes there is a phony, why does Holden continue to go there? Or is that why he slowly decided to cut it out. Anyhow, he met up with Carl Luce. He said he bored Carl but that Carl sure did amuse him. Carl could only stay for awhile because he had a date he had to go to. Holden stayed at the bar until he couldn't see straight. He did call up Sally Hayes in a phone booth and after he hungup he stayed in there for a bit longer. Holden then went to the men's room, had a conversation with the man who had been playing the piano but didn't find him too friendly. Then he found himself crying, he felt depressed and lonesome. I don't blame him, he really didn't have anyone to turn too that he was that close with. Once he left the bar he headed to the park. He dropped Phoebes record and nearly started to cry. Once he made it in the park he headed towards the pound but found no ducks. He sure was cold, mostly because his hair was still wet from the radiator. He started thinking about Allie and when he died how his family all came. Then started worrying about him getting pneumonia and dying too and how his mom would probably not let Phoebe come to his funeral. Then he started talking about how he went to visit Allie's grave. After that he walked home and broke in to see Phoebe. When he woke Phoebe up they started talking about the play she was going to be in. They talked for awhile, then Holden called up his teacher to see if he could stop by then left quickly before his parents would wake up.

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  6. Danielle-EwachaNovember 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM

    In chapter 22, not much happens because Holden and Phoebe just continue to talk. Phoebe is really mad a Holden because he didn't tell anyone he got kicked out. She knows that their dad will be very disappointed in him because this is his 4th school that he has attended. Holden tries to calm her down saying everything will be ok. Holden then tells Phoebe about his school and how much he hated it. All the phonies, mean guys and how everyone was in cliques really irritated him. He mentions Mr.Spencer and how his wife would alway give Holden chocolate. Holden tells Phoebe about a guy he used to go to school with, James Castle. Castle committed suicide by jumping out of his bedroom window because some other guys locked him in. He was a very depressed and lonesome kid who talked to Holden only once. Phoebe finds it quited interesting and listens closely to him. Phoebe then asks Holden many questions including what job he wants to pursue. Holden mentions a poem where these kids would jump off cliffs in the rye. He tells Phoebe that he would want to catch them when they would fall off "The Catcher in the Rye". After discussing a lot with his sister, Holden decides to go call up one of his teachers from Pency.

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  7. Marc..November 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM

    In chapter 19 it starts of by Holden waiting for Carl Luce his old friend from the Whooton school in the wicker bar. Finally old Luce shows up at the bar and sits with Holden and starts of by ordering a dry martini. So Holden starts to have a conversation with old Luce asking him about his personal life like his sex life and how old his girl friend is but Luce tells Holden to Grow up and drop the conversation. After that Holden had has hesitated for a bit to talk to Luce but he starts another conversation with him asking him his advice about women and sex. Eventually Luce tells Holden he has to go and Holden tells him to have another drink but Luce said he had to go and he was late but Holden still begs him to stay and tells him his lonesome but Luce doesn't bother staying and leaves the bar.

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  8. Kayla JacobsenNovember 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    At the Wicker Bar in the Seton Hotel Holden waits for Luce. I bet this hotel is a lot nicer looking than the one he was staying at, accept Holdens questions about sex and what not to Luce were ment for a hotel with less class. I think it was very odd that Holden would just bring something like that up with Luce after not seeing him for so long. Weird small talk I'd say. After that whole mess of a meet up ends, he makes his way over to the duck pond. I think that was a bad idea seeing as he was drunk, and the ducks remind him of Allie!

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