Catcher In The Rye Dialectical Journal

These lines exchanged by Jane Eyre and Mr. St John perfectly exhibit the differences in their personalities. Jane Eyre is a passionate, emotional person, while Mr. St John comes off as "cold" and un-feeling. These contrasting temperaments make for an intriguing scene when Mr. St John asks for Jane to marry and move to India with him as a missionary's wife. Jane had a strong emotional reaction to Mr. St John's proposal and St John was taken aback when she rejected him, but he did not have a particularly passionate reaction. In the days and weeks to follow, St. John was by no means friendly or warm with Jane, but he was also not outwardly rude to her. All and all, Mr. St John's disposition can be described as "cold," and Jane's emotions, that had a fire-like intensity, led her to reject to St. Johns final proposal.

Quote: “I sat down in this vomity-looking chair in the lobby and thought about her and Stradlater sitting in that goddam Ed Banky’s car, and though I was pretty damn sure old Stradlater hadn’t given her the time - I know old Jane like a book - I still couldn’t get her off my brain. I knew here like a book. I really did” (85).

Reveals about situation: This is a complete revolution from the last chapter. Previously, Holden described his love for Jesus, but his hate for organized religion. However, he is now giving nuns money for their next collection for charity. This proves that even if Holden disagrees with someone, he still respects them, their beliefs, and their actions. Additionally, it proves that Holden in fact has a big heart and cares about those he is around, even if he may not show it all the time.

means to him. Suddenly, they hear their parents open the door the apartment. His mother checks on Phoebe. Phoebe loans Holden her Christmas money, which makes Holden cry. He gives her his red hunting cap and leaves the building.

There are multiple details that stood out as particularly true to life in my view. One was the nariartator that it is telling the story/ his view point main character mentions what check out aisle number. It mentions how the three girls looked. The character payed attention to how the girl that seem to be the leader was walking saying “she came down a little hard on her heels, as if she didn’t walk in her bare feet much” this quote helps you picture how the person and might help picture what the girl was walking like. He gave details to where he was and what he was doing when the three girls was doing. He mentions that “I’m in the third check-out slot with my back to the door so that I didn’t see them until they had reach the bread” this helps the reader to set up an mental image of the store as they are reading.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators” (88). During the walk back to the hotel, Holden was having a mental conversation with himself. He was planning what to say to the person who had stolen his gloves. In the morning, Holden decided to call Sally Hayes and made a date with her. When it came to their date, Holden described Sally as, “ She had one of those very loud, embarrassing voices when you met her somewhere” (124). When their date was over, Holden was sort of hungry, so he went to the drugstore. When he ate some food he bought at the drugstore, he got some drinks and got drunk. “I was too drunk, I guess. So what I did, I gave old Sally Hayes a buzz” (150). They talked for awhile, but Sally hung up on him after awhile. When Holden isn’t drunk anymore, he decided to visit his younger sister Phoebe at home. When Phoebe saw Holden, she was super excited to see her brother again. “She’s very affectionate. I mean she’s quite affectionate, for a child.Sometimes she’s even too affectionate” (161). After talking for awhile, Holden left and called up Mr. Antolini. “He was about the best teacher I ever had, Mr.

This story is told in the first person point of view. The author chose the story to be first person to build a connection with the reader, and to tell stories from their own perspective, since they are more reliable than being told by someone else. First person also allows the reader to create a relationship with the protagonist and get to to know the character by the choices he made and the life experiences he had.

Everyone has to grow up eventually, some just tend to take it better more than others, it could be the fear or gaining more responsibility or the fact that getting older means that your parents are too and with your old age comes their time to go, the fear of not being ready or prepared for what life has to offer you and you being on your own to find out

However, during his encounter with Sunny he refuses to have sex with her and thinks about calling Jane as deep inside he craves real affection. This shows that he is steadily maturing into a sensible adult. His sensible nature is also displayed when "misadventure piles on misadventure, but he bears it all with a grim cheerfulness and stubborn courage. He is finally saved as a result of his meeting with his little sister Phoebe."(Burger) Holden's ability deal with aspects of society directed to adults such as liquor, sex and nightclubs shows that he is maturing into an adult. At the end of the novel, Holden cries and says that "he felt so damn happy, to tell the truth" when he sees Phoebe riding the carousel. He is overwhelmed with joy because Phoebe displays the innocence he wants to protect but also knows that she is out of his reach and have to face the world of an adult at a certain point. This shows that he has finally grown into an adult and knows what an adult must go through in society. All this shows that Holden has grown into a sensible adult from an immature teenager through his actions and helps in creating a successful bildungsroman.

I, Chapter 24, am obviously the most significant. The others were hardly competition, however, 19 did give me quite the run for my money. I won because I show the message behind the story most clearly. Racism is undeniably present in this town, unfortunately, and my job was to show just how prevalent it is. I believe that I did quite the fine job in passages like this one, “‘Tom’s dead’ Aunt Alexandra put her hands to her mouth. ‘They shot him,’ said Atticus” (Lee 239). Because of the town’s racism, Tom would have never been given a fair chance, therefore, he gave up and was then shot 17 times. If that doesn’t show the town’s usual disease, this passage does, “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only;

The literary term utilized in this quote: Metaphor Quotes Response to Quote “ I’ll bet a thousand bucks they did that was because a lot of guys parents came up to the school on Sunday and Old Thurmer probably figured everybody’s mother would ask their darling boy what he had for dinner last night and he’d say, “steak”. What a racket. ”(pg.40) 1.)

This word is quite important to this set of chapters. As said above, Nathan Radley filled in a knot-hole with cement, severing the children’s ties with Arthur Radley. This particularly hurt Scout, who began to cry, as they would not be able to get his gifts or communicate. Jem is able to calm Scout down after this, but later on in the day is seen crying. Perhaps Jem knows something about the knot-hole that Scout doesn’t because he is older, or maybe this is a forewarning to Nathan targeting them. Scout also said in the book that she didn’t hear him crying, so Nathan could have called him over and threatened him. In similarity, in chapter 5, Scout pesters Jem into not making fun of the Radley’s life. She was strong like cement when it hardens.

After Holden spends a night drinking, he roams aimlessly around the city. He eventually ends up back at his parents home, and surprises his sister Phoebe. He sneaks into her room, and they talk on her bed. Phoebe figures out quickly that Holden is no longer in school and becomes upset with him.

Later in the evening, Holden calls down classmate Carl Luce for a drink. At the bar, Holden gets drunk. But his friend leaves because of disgust. Later, he thinks about his brother Allie but never visits his grave because he is afraid of getting rained on. He walks across the Park and breaks the record and decides to see his sister.

The call was an attempt to get her to have intercourse with him but Holden hung up without making a date. Holden went to the lobby as he walked he remembered Jane Gallagher and began to reminisce about their past together. Holden left the hotel he was staying, but not before the elevator operator Maurice offered a prostitute for five dollars Holden agreed. Part way Holden begins to feel “peculiar” and asks the prostitute to leave, she does , but returns with Maurice who demanded he pays a ther five Holden refused and was punched in the stomach feeling tired he falls asleep. Holden wakes up and takes a cab to Central Park to find his little sister Phoebe. After some more useless interaction with past acquaintances, Holden sneaks into his own apartment where Phoebe is sleeping. He is forced to admit his expulsion to his sister who gets quite angry. Later Holden speaks to his former English Teacher who speaks to him about his expulsion and his future after their chat Holden falls asleep at the Grand Central Station. Waking up sometime later Holden writes a letter to his sister Phoebe saying he would be leaving home for good and should meet him at the