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

Friday, November 13, 2009

SETTING - SECTION 2

Holden visits many different places on his journey home from Pencey Prep. Look closely at them. Don't be afraid to "google" some of the places to learn more about them.
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  1. JasmineNovember 14, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    In chapter 4, Holden and Stradlater are the only two people in the can, there are ten washbowls ligned up along the wall and the boys take one near the middle. The flooring is stone and Holden tap dances on it. During this scene I imagine the room to be illumnated with fluorscent lighting and that it echo's when the boys speak to eachother as it is basically empty. During this scene I feel as though the mood being set is kind of bland and blank to represent Stradlater's lack of caring. Stradlater asks Holden to write an English assignment for him and expects him to do it without blinking an eye. Holden is put off by the idea but Stradlater just goes about his buisness getting ready not even caring about Holden's reaction. When Stradlater mentions he is going on a date with Jane, Holden brightens up but Stradlater continues to focus on himself in the mirror not giving much thought to Holden as he has more important things to do.

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  2. JasmineNovember 14, 2009 at 4:57 PM

    In chapter 5, the scene starts out in the dining hall on the saturday night, Holden doesn't seem to impressed by the meal and it seems like a chore for him to attend. Afterwards when leaving the hall there is three inches of snow outside and this exites everyone and they begin throwing snowballs. Mal Brossard, Holden and Ackley decide to take the bus out of Pency and end up going to the arcade to play pinball and eat burgers. At a quater to nine the boys return to their rooms. Ackley stays with Holden in his room but begins agitating him by making up stories, the tension is high so Holden finally tells him to leave and he does so reluctantly. Holden then begins writing his compostion for Stradlater about his brother Allie's baseball mit on a typewriter. I imagine silence excpet for the clacking sound of the keys, Holden in the center of a carpeted room with intense concentration and care. At around ten thirty he finishes the compostion and hears Ackley snoring annoying him, as he looks outside at the snow on the ground.

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  3. corrinnNovember 15, 2009 at 11:23 PM

    In chapter eight, the setting is started off by Holden walking to the train station, face full of blood still, trudging through the snow and his gladstones banging on his legs, but his ears were warm, because he had a hat, with earlaps in it. And he was carrying his luggage. the second setting salinger describes in this chapter is the train, and how he liked riding them at night because "with lights on the windows so black and one of those guys coming up the aisle selling coffee and sandwiches and magazines." When i imagined this in my head, it kind of reminded me of harry potter and how they came around with the trolley of food and stuff.

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  4. twNovember 15, 2009 at 11:39 PM

    i agree with both the girls and feel that they have stated the setting very well for the chapters.But as well in chapter six tension grows between the two guys and they begin to fight in his room.

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  5. Sam RoskyNovember 16, 2009 at 3:00 PM

    In chapter 7 Holden enters Ackleys room after the fight with Stradlater. The setting of Ackleys room in the begining is very dark. It is really messy and there is a shoe on the floor that Holden trips over and almost falls on his head while entering Ackleys room. The room also smells bad. Then Holden turns on the light and then it is a very tense atmoshpere because Ackley sees all the blood on Holdens face and because they argue over where Holden was going to sleep.

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  6. JakeNovember 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM

    The setting in these chapters makes it seem as though the school Holden is in is not exactly a place that Holden wants to be. It makes it seem like he would rather be kicked out than stay there. To him he isn't exactly losing anything by getting kicked out. Most of the people who surround him he doesn't entirely like and has other problems with the school such as the food for one example.

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  7. AmirPNovember 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

    well chapter 5 starts off them being in pencey still and Holden is still critizing the objects in the area and people. He gets into a many agruements with himself with the food but after done they were done eating they went outside and there were amazed by the fact there was alots of snow on the ground and had a little Snow fight before heading back in the dorms soon after that stradlator walks in and questions Holden about the paper and everything and after awhile they get into a dispute in the dorm. After that he ends up heading to the train station with a busted nose and entires the train and thats about it for chapter 8 setting.

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