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Summary: My summary is going to be about the first four paragraphs in the book. The first thing that you have two know to follow the book is Holden is the protagonist of the book. I am going to give away a small summary of what happens in the beginning of each paragraph but I am not going to give a summary of the whole thing because that would gust ruin the point of reading the book in the first place. 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. Holden’s career at Pencey Prep has been marred by his refusal to apply himself, and after failing four of his five subjects—he passed only English—he has been forbidden to return to the school after the fall term. The Saturday before Christmas vacation begins, Holden stands on Thomsen Hill overlooking the football field, where Pencey plays its annual grudge match against Saxon Hall. Holden has no interest in the game and hadn’t planned to watch it at all. He is the manager of the school’s fencing team and is supposed to be in New York for a meet, but he lost the team’s equipment on the subway, forcing everyone to return early. My summary of paragraph two is right from where my first chapter summary started off. Holden greets Mr. Spencer and his wife in a manner that suggests he is close to them. He is put off by his teacher’s rather decrepit condition but seems otherwise to respect him. In his sickroom, Spencer tries to lecture Holden about his academic failures. He confirms Pencey’s headmaster’s assertion that “[l]ife is a game” and tells Holden that he must learn to play by the rules. Although Spencer clearly feels affection for Holden, he bluntly reminds the boy that he flunked him, and even forces him to listen to the terrible essay he handed in about the ancient Egyptians. Finally, Spencer tries to convince Holden to think about his future. Not wanting to be lectured, Holden interrupts Spencer and leaves, returning to his dorm room before dinner. The summary of what happens in chapter 3 and 4 is these chapters establish the way Holden interacts with his peers. Holden despises “phonies”—people whose surface behavior distorts or disguises their inner feelings. Even his brother D. B. incurs his displeasure by accepting a big paycheck to write for the movies; Holden considers the movies to be the phoniest of the phony and emphasizes throughout the book the loathing he has for Hollywood. Unfortunately, Holden is surrounded by phonies in his circa- prep school. Preening Ackley and self-absorbed Stradlater act as his immediate contrasts. But, despite their flaws, he acts with basic kindness toward them, agreeing to write Stradlater’s English composition for him in Chapter 4, even though Stradlater is out with Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden seems to care for very deeply. The pressure of adolescent sexuality—an important theme throughout The Catcher in the Rye—makes itself felt here for the first time: Holden’s greatest worry is that Stradlater will make sexual advances toward Jane. That is all I have to say about the four chapters that I summarized in this summary.
Quote: I choose this quote because it really stood out for me and I think it really showed the type of style that the author uses in the book.
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road(pg.20 salinger)”.
Reaction: This is the reaction that I had to the story and how the author used his style to make it sound like it was back in the day. Also his type of style that he uses. This is going to be a very brief summary of his style. The type of style that I found the author used was he would make it simplistic and he would tell It from a first person view, and he would make it should like it did back in the day when the moment called for it like angry or a emotional scene. Lastly the reason why this quote is important is the story is about fitting in and trying to be a black American and in the quote it says I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America this shows he is trying to understand his black heritage and he wants to fit in with the black people.
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