Date: September 24, 2007
Entery Number: 2
Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 4
I don't understand when Holden says, "I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by" (4). (He even spelled bye wrong.) How can you feel some kind of a goodbye from a prep school who gives many guys the boot? He says, "I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse." I understand part of this statement but it is still really confusing. If you leave a place you really like and you don't know that you are leaving for good then it is sad because you'll never see it again and you didn't really get to say goodbye. But Holden really didn't like all those prep schools and especially Pencey. He was always talking about how fake all these guys were and how the headmaster, Mr. Thurmer, was really fake too. He really didn't say all to much about the positive things of Pencey. For most people if you had to leave a place you really didn't like, it would be a good ridance and, for me, I wouldn't care if I got a goodbye or not, I'd just be happy to leave. So it is rather interesting that he needed a goodbye to know that he was really leaving, which I still don't really get. (If I thought harder I could maybe come up with something more but it's late.)
Monday, September 24, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Journal Entery -- Catcher in the Rye
Date: September 20, 2007
Entery Number: 1
Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 1
I have a lot of questions about our protagonist's life, his parents, and his relation with them. What was occupying Holden's parents so much that they didn't have time for their son? He says that his childhood was lousy. Why is that? Didn't he have any friends or someone to talk too? Later in the book he makes the comment, "They didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves." He was talking about an old couple there but does that and the fact that he goes to a fancy prep school imply that his family was rich? And if they are rich then what jobs do Holden's parents have? They must be pretty high in society since they don't like him or his brother talking about any personal aspects of their lives and are very touchy when it comes to that subject. But if they were, then why couldn't his brother have already had that really nice Jaguar? Also, I don't get the whole David Copperfield thing. What is that suppose to mean? His whole relationship with his parents is pretty strange.
Entery Number: 1
Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 1
I have a lot of questions about our protagonist's life, his parents, and his relation with them. What was occupying Holden's parents so much that they didn't have time for their son? He says that his childhood was lousy. Why is that? Didn't he have any friends or someone to talk too? Later in the book he makes the comment, "They didn't have a maid or anything, and they always opened the door themselves." He was talking about an old couple there but does that and the fact that he goes to a fancy prep school imply that his family was rich? And if they are rich then what jobs do Holden's parents have? They must be pretty high in society since they don't like him or his brother talking about any personal aspects of their lives and are very touchy when it comes to that subject. But if they were, then why couldn't his brother have already had that really nice Jaguar? Also, I don't get the whole David Copperfield thing. What is that suppose to mean? His whole relationship with his parents is pretty strange.
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