Writing Task 2

peels show Teddy’s ability for in-depth thoughts , and it reinforces Teddy’s divine nature to the readers. It also shows Teddy’s interests, he is not concerned with playing sports, run on sentence he would rather meditate and contemplate death. Also, in “The Laughing Man ”, Salinger uses the character of The Laughing Man as a symbol to show what Chief wants his life to be like. Chief wants his life to be like The Laughing Man, run on sentence he wants to be a leader and a hero for his friends. Therefore, both symbols demonstrate how the characters want their lives to go. Teddy wants his life to be about deep thoughts not exactly the case, whereas the Chief of the Comanches wants his life to be one of a hero. Moreover, the use of the orange peels allows Teddy to come out of his shell early in the short story. Right off the bat slang!! the orange peels give Teddy the excuse to demonstrate his ability to deconstruct large complex ideas. Teddy explains to the reader that the orange peels take a position in time and space, and that if Teddy was not at the window at a certain time , he would not have been able to see them which would have meant that it would have almost been like they did not exist to him because he would not have seen them. This is a rather remarkable observation for a 10 year old boy, which is precisely why Salinger uses the orange peels, run on sentence he wants the readers to pick up on this fact early on. Furthermore, Salinger employs this idea of symbols representing the characters' lives in “The Laughing Man” as well. Salinger uses “The Laughing Man” to show how Chief wants to be viewed by his friends, the children. Chief wants to indulge in the activities that will return him to the “good old days” which refers to the days when he was a child, where he had not one care in the world, and had no responsibilities the story does not say this and in fact it implies that he came from a poor family so he would have had problems . Thus, both symbols represent the characters’ choice on how to live their lives, Chief in the past, and Teddy in the future. 7 3) In a paragraph of around 250-300 words, compare and contrast Salinger’s use of a frame narrative in “For Esmé — with Love and Squalor” and “The Laughing Man”. (10 marks) In both the short stories “For Esmé — with Love and Squalor” and “The Laughing Man”, Salinger use s the frame narrative to emphasize important aspects of the story. For example, the narrative frame in “For Esmé” is used to demonstrate the major impact that Esmé had on the soldier’s life. The story begins with the soldier receiving airmail from the little girl asking him to come to her wedding. It shows that they are both still in contact and that he also had a big impact on her life. Furthermore, the narrative frame tells the story of how Esmé and the soldier met for the first time. It was just before the war which was of course an influential event in the soldier’s life. Moreover, Esmé writes a letter to the soldier while he is at war. Therefore , the soldier was really affected by the letter and it “was long before [he] could set the note aside”. Thus, the narrative frame in “For Esmé” is used by the author to emphasize the meeting of the little girl and the soldier to demonstrate to which what extent the man was impacted by her. Also, Salinger uses the narrative frame in “The Laughing Man” to emphasize the emotions of the “Chief” or John Gedsudski. This short story begins by introducing the baseball team of the Commanches sp! . After each of their games, the Chief tells a story. However, the story of “The Laughing Man” evolves according to the emotions of the Chief. For example, at the end of the story, when the Chief fights with his probable girlfriend, the Laughing Man dies. Moreover, what finally killed the Laughing man is the pain