Saturday, March 29, 2008
The blog bout the symbolism thingy
Well the problem is that my book has no symbolism what so ever..or its just me..I think I may not be trying hard enough. There were no symbolisms represented throughout the whole book at all. Maybe the ponds with the ducks..no...well there wasn't any symbolism =0. I'm actually kinda happy because I don't have to write that much Y E A H !!!! (-.-) woot..........
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The last few chapters of Catcher in the Rye---YEAH!!!!
Well, last timeI was telling you all about how Holden crashed at his old English teacher's house. Now if you remember the teachers name was Mr. Antolini. He seems like a nice guy and everything in the beginning, but later on he does some perverted stuff to Holden...thats what Holden thinks not me. When he was going to sleep he had no pajamas, so instead he was sleeping with these really short shorts. He finally falls asleep. After a couple of hours he feels a hand that was petting him/ patting him..it freaked Holden out a lot. Holden felt very violated and discovers that the person petting him was .....Mr. Antolini. I find it kind of weird.. why does he pet Holden? When Holden asked him what the hell he was doing, Mr. Antolini got all guilty and acted strange. Anyways, Holden leaves as fast as possible, pretending he had to get bags urgently. SO he leaves, and get his stuff and he starts getting all depressed again..I wouldn't blame him..he was sleeping in a freakin train station. He comes up with yet another ridiculous scheme about himself oving west by hitch-hiking. He would pretend to be deaf and mute to avoid having conversations with any body evey again and decides to marry a mute and deaf person. He decides to tell Pheobe (his sister) that he is leaving to go west. Pheobe gets all heart-broke and everything and tells him that she is coming with him. He tells her to shut-up repeatedly..they become mad at each other. Later on, they make up..and he decides not to leave but to just go back home. Then Holden says he doesn't feel like talking about his personal life anymore beacause he is getting sick of remembering it because he misses all the bastards like Ackley and Stradlater..he even misses Maurice
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Fourth post --almost end of the story
I recall many times when Holden asked several cab drivers if they knew were the ducks in a small lake in Central Park went. All them were baffled by this question. Some didn't answer.. some people thought that Holden was retarded for askin this question. One guy was like Mother Earth cares for them when it get cold---what the hell is that supposed to mean. He makes an analogy with fish in the lake. When it gets cold, they are frozen in the lake.. then Holden asks what about the ducks do they stay frozen in the lake too? Then he goes back to analogy about the fishes-- that they can "survive" in the ice because there are pores or something in the ice which brings food to the fish. I thought that cab driver was crazy or something. You might be thinking were I'm going with this story, but what happens in the end of the story is that finally Holden decides to go to that lake were he spent a good time of his childhood. When he finally arrives to the lake, he discovers that the ducks were nowhere to be found. He keeps reminiscing about the ducks and the time he spent with his sister Phoebe and his cousin Allie...thenhe feels very homesick and decides to go meet his sister. He didnt care if he was caught out of Pencey. He really wanted to see his sister; they had a special bond they really understood what each other was talking about. After they talked and everything, Phoebe instantly discovereed that her brother was suspended from Pencey. I was amazed by how she knew that so fast without him even giving her a clue. His parents arrived home and he was almost caught but luckily he left in time. He decided to live with his English teacher, Mr Antolini for a couple of weeks. Holden apparently has only good connections with his English teachers because English is the only class he hasn't flunked.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The Catcher in the Rye- Chapter 7 - 16 brief description
Since Holden is failing every class except English and is going to be expelled from Pency. Instead of being kicked out of Pencey he decided that he was going to leave right that instant. This was after Stadlater and Holden got into a fight for no apparent reason (fight was over nothing, was pointless). He didn't want to hang out there anymore. Since Holden had left Pencey, he grew more and more depressed. He kept meeting people he knew but it made him feel even more depressed when he was trying to make himself feel better. All his friends had changed, and according to him had become greater phonies. He keeps talking about Jane Gallagher when he gets depressed. It was one of his best friends who wasn't a phony. One time while stay at a hotel, Holden was taking an elevator to his room, and the elevator boy who's name was Maurice. Maurice hooked Holden with a hooker (Holden is 12 but he looks like he's 22). Maurice says it will cost 5 dollars and Holden agrees. The prostitutes name was Sunny-- when she did come, Holden didn't feel like having sex with a stranger. Sunny was frustrated because she woke up late and didn't do anything. Holden gives her 5 dollars and she leaves. Holden gets bummed out and tries to go to sleep. All of a sudden he hears someone knock on his door a couple of hours later. Automatically, Holden knew who it was. It was Maurice and Sunny. Maurice tells him that he was supposed to pay 10 dollars. Holden keep refusing and tells him that he said 5 dollars before. Sunny find his wallet and takes out another 5 dollars and tells Maurice that she had the money and that they could leave. Maurice started to act like a bastard and doesn't leave Holden alone even after they got the 5 dollars. Maurice beats him up severely and they leave the room.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Catcher in the Rye
Well what happened was that I couldn't get "Howl's Moving Castle" so instead I took out the book "The Catcher in the Rye". It is an ok book and all, but the story is going nowhere in the first four chapters. Also the book uses a repitition of the words chrissake, goddam, hell and many other phrases a lot, so the story gets sort of redundant and boring. It seems as if so far that 16 year old Holden Caulfield isn't the best student at Pency because he is failing every single class besides English but he might change and become a better student later. So far the story is boring, but since its the beginning of this book, I guess it could get better. The plot needs to be more interesting in the beginning. It doesn't make me feel like reading it. He's talking about his whole life story......
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Howl's Moving Castle
I picked the book Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I chose to read this book because my brother read it and recommended it to me. I expect to get out of this book an interesting life lesson and a moral cleverly interwoven into the story's plot. I think after reading the summary that it's a humorous and puzzling tale of fantasy and adventure. Probably has a lot of drama -twists and turns throughout the story. I expect to finish this book in approximately 3 weeks because the book is 336 pages long.
Diana Wynne Jones was born on 1934 and I think she is still alive. Diana has been accepted to receive the prestigious Carnegie Award for children's books. Her book, Howl's moving Castle set a Japanese box office record and went straight to the top of the Japanese film charts on its release in November 20th , 2004. It won an award for Technical Achievement.
Diana Wynne Jones was born on 1934 and I think she is still alive. Diana has been accepted to receive the prestigious Carnegie Award for children's books. Her book, Howl's moving Castle set a Japanese box office record and went straight to the top of the Japanese film charts on its release in November 20th , 2004. It won an award for Technical Achievement.
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