- Title page.
- Chapter Summaries.
- 3 x 500 word essays - 2 imaginative and 1 expository.
- List of Holden's Slang words .
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Work To be completed:
Chapter Summarys
Chapter 1 - 2
Holden Caulfield writes his story from a rest home to which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, mentioning only that his brother D. B. is a Hollywood writer. He hints that he is bitter because D. B. has sold out to Hollywood, forsaking a career in serious literature for the wealth and fame of the movies. He then begins to tell the story of his breakdown, beginning with his departure from Pencey Prep, a famous school he attended in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.
Chapter 3 - 4
Holden lives in Ossenburger Hall, which is named after a wealthy Pencey graduate who made a fortune in the discount funeral home business. In his room, Holden sits and reads Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa while wearing his new hunting hat, a flamboyant red cap with a long peaked brim and earflaps. He is interrupted by Ackley, a pimply student who lives next door. According to Holden, Ackley is a supremely irritating classmate who constantly barges into the room, exhibits disgusting personal habits and poor hygiene, and always acts as if he’s doing others a favor by spending time with them. Ackley does not seem to have many friends. He prevents Holden from reading by puttering around the room and pestering him with annoying questions.
Chapter 5 - 6
After a dry and unappetizing steak dinner in the dining hall, Holden gets into a snowball fight with some of the other Pencey boys. He and his friend Mal Brossard decide to take a bus into Agerstown to see a movie—though Holden hates movies—and Holden convinces Mal to let Ackley go with them. As it turns out, Ackley and Brossard have already seen the film, so the trio simply eats some burgers, plays a little pinball, and heads back to Pencey.
Chapter 7 - 9
Holden talks for a while with Ackley and then tries to fall asleep in the bed belonging to Ackley’s roommate, who is away for the weekend. But he cannot stop imagining Jane fooling around with Stradlater, and he has trouble falling asleep. He wakes Ackley and talks with him some more, asking whether he could run off and join a monastery without being Catholic. Ackley is annoyed by the conversation, and Holden is annoyed by Ackley’s “phoniness,” so he leaves. Outside, in the dorm’s hallway, he decides that he will leave for New York that night instead of waiting until Wednesday. After passing a few days there in secret, he will wait until his parents have digested the news of his expulsion before he returns to their apartment. He packs his bags, dons his hunting hat, and begins to cry. As he heads into the hallway, he yells “Sleep tight, ya morons!” to the boys on his floor before stepping outside to leave Pencey forever.
Chapter 10 - 12
Still feeling restless, Holden changes his shirt and goes downstairs to the Lavender Room, the Edmont’s nightclub. Before he leaves his room, he thinks again about calling his little sister, Phoebe. Referring to her as “old Phoebe,” he gives a description of her character that is remarkably similar to the description he gave of Allie in Chapter 5. Like Allie, she has red hair and is unusually intelligent for her age. According to Holden, Phoebe’s one flaw is that she is perhaps too emotional.
Chapter 13 - 15
Feeling like a coward for leaving Ernie’s, Holden walks the forty-one blocks from the nightclub back to the hotel. Along the way, he thinks about his gloves, which were stolen at Pencey. He imagines an elaborate confrontation with the unknown thief, but he acknowledges that he is a coward at heart, afraid of violence and confrontation. When he reaches the Edmont, he takes the elevator up to his room. The elevator operator offers to send him a prostitute for five dollars, and Holden, depressed and flustered, accepts. While waiting in his room, he again thinks about his cowardice, because he feels that his lack of aggression has prevented him from ever sleeping with a woman. Women, Holden believes, want a man who asserts power and control.
Chapter 16 - 17
After breakfast, Holden goes for a walk. He thinks about the selflessness of the nuns and can’t imagine anyone he knows being so generous and giving. He heads down Broadway to buy a record called “Little Shirley Beans” for Phoebe. He likes the record because, although it is for children, it is sung by a black blues singer who makes it sound raunchy, not cute. He thinks about Phoebe, whom he considers to be a wonderful girl because, although she’s only ten, she always understands what Holden means when he talks to her.
Chapter 18 - 20
After leaving the skating rink, Holden goes to a drugstore and has a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted milk. Once again, he thinks about calling Jane, but his mind begins to wander. He remembers the time he saw her at a dance with a boy Holden thought was a show-off, but Jane argued that the boy had an inferiority complex. Holden decides that girls always say that as an excuse to date arrogant boys. Finally, he calls Jane, but no one answers. He then calls a boy named Carl Luce, whom he used to know at the Whooton School, and Luce agrees to meet him for drinks later that night.
Chapter 21 - 23
Holden takes the elevator up to his family’s apartment. Luckily for him, the regular elevator operator is gone, and he is able to convince the new one, who doesn’t recognize him, that he wants to visit the Dicksteins, who live across the hall from the Caulfields. Holden sneaks into his family’s apartment and looks for Phoebe, but she isn’t in her room. Holden tiptoes to D. B.’s room, because Phoebe likes to sleep there when D. B. is in Hollywood. He finds Phoebe sleeping peacefully, and he remarks that children, unlike adults, always look peaceful when they are asleep. As he watches Phoebe sleep, he reads through her schoolbooks.
Chapter 24 - 26
When Holden arrives at Mr. Antolini’s, Mr. Antolini and his wife have just wrapped up a dinner party in their upscale Sutton Place apartment. Glasses and dishes are everywhere, and Holden can tell that Mr. Antolini has been drinking. Holden takes a seat, and the two begin talking. As Mrs. Antolini prepares coffee, Mr. Antolini inquires about Holden’s expulsion from Pencey Prep. After leaving Mr. Antolini’s, Holden goes to Grand Central Station and spends the night sleeping on a bench in the waiting room. The next day, he walks up and down Fifth Avenue, watching the children and feeling more and more nervous and overwhelmed. Every time he crosses a street, he feels like he will disappear, so each time he reaches a curb, he calls to Allie, pleading with his dead brother to let him make it to the other side. He decides to leave New York,
Holden Caulfield writes his story from a rest home to which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, mentioning only that his brother D. B. is a Hollywood writer. He hints that he is bitter because D. B. has sold out to Hollywood, forsaking a career in serious literature for the wealth and fame of the movies. He then begins to tell the story of his breakdown, beginning with his departure from Pencey Prep, a famous school he attended in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.
Chapter 3 - 4
Holden lives in Ossenburger Hall, which is named after a wealthy Pencey graduate who made a fortune in the discount funeral home business. In his room, Holden sits and reads Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa while wearing his new hunting hat, a flamboyant red cap with a long peaked brim and earflaps. He is interrupted by Ackley, a pimply student who lives next door. According to Holden, Ackley is a supremely irritating classmate who constantly barges into the room, exhibits disgusting personal habits and poor hygiene, and always acts as if he’s doing others a favor by spending time with them. Ackley does not seem to have many friends. He prevents Holden from reading by puttering around the room and pestering him with annoying questions.
Chapter 5 - 6
After a dry and unappetizing steak dinner in the dining hall, Holden gets into a snowball fight with some of the other Pencey boys. He and his friend Mal Brossard decide to take a bus into Agerstown to see a movie—though Holden hates movies—and Holden convinces Mal to let Ackley go with them. As it turns out, Ackley and Brossard have already seen the film, so the trio simply eats some burgers, plays a little pinball, and heads back to Pencey.
Chapter 7 - 9
Holden talks for a while with Ackley and then tries to fall asleep in the bed belonging to Ackley’s roommate, who is away for the weekend. But he cannot stop imagining Jane fooling around with Stradlater, and he has trouble falling asleep. He wakes Ackley and talks with him some more, asking whether he could run off and join a monastery without being Catholic. Ackley is annoyed by the conversation, and Holden is annoyed by Ackley’s “phoniness,” so he leaves. Outside, in the dorm’s hallway, he decides that he will leave for New York that night instead of waiting until Wednesday. After passing a few days there in secret, he will wait until his parents have digested the news of his expulsion before he returns to their apartment. He packs his bags, dons his hunting hat, and begins to cry. As he heads into the hallway, he yells “Sleep tight, ya morons!” to the boys on his floor before stepping outside to leave Pencey forever.
Chapter 10 - 12
Still feeling restless, Holden changes his shirt and goes downstairs to the Lavender Room, the Edmont’s nightclub. Before he leaves his room, he thinks again about calling his little sister, Phoebe. Referring to her as “old Phoebe,” he gives a description of her character that is remarkably similar to the description he gave of Allie in Chapter 5. Like Allie, she has red hair and is unusually intelligent for her age. According to Holden, Phoebe’s one flaw is that she is perhaps too emotional.
Chapter 13 - 15
Feeling like a coward for leaving Ernie’s, Holden walks the forty-one blocks from the nightclub back to the hotel. Along the way, he thinks about his gloves, which were stolen at Pencey. He imagines an elaborate confrontation with the unknown thief, but he acknowledges that he is a coward at heart, afraid of violence and confrontation. When he reaches the Edmont, he takes the elevator up to his room. The elevator operator offers to send him a prostitute for five dollars, and Holden, depressed and flustered, accepts. While waiting in his room, he again thinks about his cowardice, because he feels that his lack of aggression has prevented him from ever sleeping with a woman. Women, Holden believes, want a man who asserts power and control.
Chapter 16 - 17
After breakfast, Holden goes for a walk. He thinks about the selflessness of the nuns and can’t imagine anyone he knows being so generous and giving. He heads down Broadway to buy a record called “Little Shirley Beans” for Phoebe. He likes the record because, although it is for children, it is sung by a black blues singer who makes it sound raunchy, not cute. He thinks about Phoebe, whom he considers to be a wonderful girl because, although she’s only ten, she always understands what Holden means when he talks to her.
Chapter 18 - 20
After leaving the skating rink, Holden goes to a drugstore and has a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted milk. Once again, he thinks about calling Jane, but his mind begins to wander. He remembers the time he saw her at a dance with a boy Holden thought was a show-off, but Jane argued that the boy had an inferiority complex. Holden decides that girls always say that as an excuse to date arrogant boys. Finally, he calls Jane, but no one answers. He then calls a boy named Carl Luce, whom he used to know at the Whooton School, and Luce agrees to meet him for drinks later that night.
Chapter 21 - 23
Holden takes the elevator up to his family’s apartment. Luckily for him, the regular elevator operator is gone, and he is able to convince the new one, who doesn’t recognize him, that he wants to visit the Dicksteins, who live across the hall from the Caulfields. Holden sneaks into his family’s apartment and looks for Phoebe, but she isn’t in her room. Holden tiptoes to D. B.’s room, because Phoebe likes to sleep there when D. B. is in Hollywood. He finds Phoebe sleeping peacefully, and he remarks that children, unlike adults, always look peaceful when they are asleep. As he watches Phoebe sleep, he reads through her schoolbooks.
Chapter 24 - 26
When Holden arrives at Mr. Antolini’s, Mr. Antolini and his wife have just wrapped up a dinner party in their upscale Sutton Place apartment. Glasses and dishes are everywhere, and Holden can tell that Mr. Antolini has been drinking. Holden takes a seat, and the two begin talking. As Mrs. Antolini prepares coffee, Mr. Antolini inquires about Holden’s expulsion from Pencey Prep. After leaving Mr. Antolini’s, Holden goes to Grand Central Station and spends the night sleeping on a bench in the waiting room. The next day, he walks up and down Fifth Avenue, watching the children and feeling more and more nervous and overwhelmed. Every time he crosses a street, he feels like he will disappear, so each time he reaches a curb, he calls to Allie, pleading with his dead brother to let him make it to the other side. He decides to leave New York,
Imaginative Piece 2
"To Belong is to be Happy"
20th May 1948
Today was one weird day. It was mixed with excitement, fun and for some reason ended with some fighting.
This morning I woke up, just as normal, but was excited to see and take Jane Gallagher out. Considering I was going to be going on a date, I thought I might need to ‘tidy’ myself up a bit. So I went to go have a shave, down in the bathrooms. I must say before I continue is that I was surprised I didn’t cut myself this time. So I had a shave, and was fixing up my hair, and the weird thing was while I was doing that entire time guess who was just standing next to me, my room mate Holden. Personally I have nothing wrong with the kid, but sometimes he can really be a weird kid, he doesn’t have many friends so he isn’t usually happy, although he does some great English compositions, so I try to ignore the fact he is a bit of a loser. Anyway back to the story so he was just sitting on the bench beside me and was constantly talking about Jane, and how he spent a summer with her. I think he may like her, because every time he talked about her his face was the most happy I have ever seen it. That’s usually what happens to boys when they like girls. So I told him basically that I didn’t care because I didn’t want to hear about how the girl I’m trying to get in with has her own little stalker, which happens to be my room mate! Anyway I got him to do my English composition while I was out, because frankly I really could not have been bothered writing one, plus I will get a much better score if Holden writes it.
So I went out with Jane, and she is really nice. I got to kiss her which I was kind of surprised about, because I thought she would be a bit more reserved. But I’m not going to lie, I kind of like this one. Holden was right, she is nice and I can see why he likes her. But me, Stradlater will never be held down by one girl in college.
Anyway so as I got back to my room, there was Holden. He must have been in the room the whole time I was out doing my essay for me, and for the time that I was out, the English composition was terrible! He was blabbering on about how some kid wrote something on his baseball mitt? I mean seriously? I think Holden just wants me to sound gay. And to top it off he was constantly bugging me trying to be information out about my date with Jane. It was just lame. I could see he was getting annoyed with no answer so he shoved me a bit. Now usually I would not snap like this so quick but because he also wrote a horrible composition I just went crazy! I punched him in the face and he started to bleed from the nose. But usually I am always happy, and I think that’s because I really belong to Pencey. I have friends and are quiet popular. That’s probably Holden’s biggest problem, he doesn’t belong anywhere, and that must be the reason why he is never happy. But anyway I do not feel guilty about it, it might get him to learn some manners about how to behave and act around me.
Stradlater out.
Imaginative Piece 1
"We Rely on others to tell us who we are"
Piss off Pencey. “Everyone is an individual”. Pure bullcrap if you ask me. No one at this school is an individual. No one is themselves in this place, everyone is told to be someone that they don’t want to be because they want to be seen as one of the hotshots; so that their life can just be a game. Don’t even worry about “kicking me out”, I was going to leave anyway. The people, the teachers, even the way that “we eat the same food every Saturday night,” I had already packed my bags. The way the people act around everyone else compared to how they act when no one is around just shows how the students of Pencey are pure “phonies”. Especially Stradlater.
He fits the role perfectly. When he is alone, all he does is mope around relishing in his true personality of being a “secret slob.” However, when he is out with his friends, he tries to act all cool pouting his big chest fuelled with his big ego, adamantly displaying his bravado. Thinking he is better than the rest of us because he wants to impress his mates. Just like when he went out with Jane Gallagher, I told him several stories about her and he subtly acted uninterested and all he did was ask me to complete his English assignment for him. How does an egotistical boy like him, get a date with such a flattering woman like her? When he got back from his little play-date, all he did was insult me. How can a man whom people believe to be such a leader, and someone whom we should aspire to be like, not even do their own assignments, but then have the audacity to dismiss my hard work as crap. [lights up a cigarette] this will set him straight, Stradlater hates it when I smoke in the room, or so he’s told me. Its hard to tell in this paradox school whether someone truly likes or dislikes anything. Even when I approach him about “Jean”, friendly asking a question, about my ex-girlfriend Jane, he doesn’t tell me anything. Every inch of my body boiled with anger and hatred, I felt like the only person at Pencey who wasn’t a phony, the loneliest person at Pencey. Stradlater ducks and comes back at me after attempting to connect against his jaw with my flurrying fists. Somehow I ended up with the bloody nose, but I don’t care. I’m glad I got expelled; no one is themselves at this stupid school.
I don’t understand the need for popularity, all they do is get known by more people and eventually become so engaged in popularity that their grades start to drop off and so have a negative attitude in life, which hinders their future ambitions instead of if they had have focused on being themselves.
Why do people judge me just because I am not a hotshot like them, bloody phoneys more like it. They don’t know me, they don’t know anything about my life, and so they shouldn’t ever try and judge me. I depict who I am, and who I want to be, not them, I am the Catcher in the Rye
Expository Piece
What matters most is how you see yourself.
In a world where everyone is a critic, what is most important is how your toughest critic, you see yourself. How you view yourself is more important than the thoughts of some anonymous, insignificant stranger on the street that you will most likely never see you again.
Those people who constantly want to have the approval from every one around them but they are usually the first to fall. Often the media and celebrities tell us that we should be comfortable in our own skin, but most of them who tell us so, have body alerting cosmetic surgery. Michael Jackson is an infamously known musician, what is most sad about Michael is not just his death, but how he ended up towards the latter end of his life. So consumed about how the world around him saw him, he went to great lengths to change how others saw him. He died a shell of his former self-try to appeal to the outside world other than himself. If only he cared more about what he saw in himself then maybe he could be around to this day to entertain the millions like he once did so well. This is the polar opposite of what Holden Caulfield stood for; he did not let others dictate his life.
Though Holden is not a star but a fictional character he is a shining example of how he sees himself and is not afraid to be himself. Often seen wearing his “hunting hat” it is a shining example of how he is comfortable in the way he sees himself. It is a representation of his individuality and to not be the thing he so greatly despises, a phoney. While others would not be caught dead wearing such a daggy hat, Holden embraces it whole heartedly because it meant something to him and he saw it as something he could not let go of. Another person who embodies what matters most is how you see yourself like Holden, is Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga is an influential musician who inspired many people young and old to be happy with who they are. From her over the top costumes to her very outlandish lyrics she has always not cared how others viewed her and only cared about how she sees her self. One of her most well known songs “Born This Way” was about as Lady Gaga said herself” is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud”. She does not see her self as the so called “freak” or “weirdo” as she is called on daily basis, but sees her self as a normal average person from humble beginnings.
So in actual fact what matters most is how you see yourself, because you can turn out like Michael Jackson and trying so hard to appeal to everyone else. Or you can be your own person and only care about how you look to oneself and be happy with who you are.
List of Slang Words By Holden Caulfield.
Phonie
Goddam
Hulluva
Old
Crazy
Faggy
Dough
Marbles
Loaded
Bucks
Lousy
Hell
Damn
And all
Crooks
Ax
Terrifically
My ass
Knockers
Buzz
And all
Crooks
Ax
Terrifically
My ass
Knockers
Buzz
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