Journal Entery

Date: September 24, 2007

Entery Number: 3

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 20

I don't understand what Holden means when he says, "With a guy like Ackley, if you looked up from your book you were a goner. You were a goner anyway, but not as quick if you didn't look up right away." Holden didn't look up at first when Ackley came in but he did later and he wasn't a goner. He got sort of irritated because Ackley would always pick up his and other people's stuff, look at it, and put it in a different place every single the time. The way Holden portays Ackley and from the dialog he has in the book Ackley seems like a pretty slow guy with a bad personnal care status who could very well pound you but only if you were being mean to him. So it doesn't make sense when Holden says, "With a guy like Ackley...you were a goner." You might be low on patience because he's so slow, irritating, disgusting, and annoying but other than that I don't see how anybody would be a goner when it comes to Ackley.