1 Sense

(I already did the senses in my notebook, Hope you’re feeling better Miss P.)

Vision:

-When Holden got to Edmont Hotel he didn’t like the appearance and also the room, he says its very crumby.

-Sunny the young prostitute Holden asked for, disturbs him a little and he noticed how quickly she took her dress off the moment she went inside the room.

– The waiter notices how Holden looks very young at the night club so he asks for an ID and Holden doesn’t have one so he gets a coke.

– Holden describes Pheobe’s appearance how she’s small and cute and a very nice person.

Everything I know about Holden from Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager, he has the same problems but even though he is a very common teen, in the other way he isn´t. Holden doesn’t like studying at all, he’s only interested in the classes he likes, for example english he enjoys that subject, it’s the only one he actually did not fail. Holden had 6 courses and failed 5 of them, this failed classes got him to get expelled out of his boarding school Pencey. He pretends to be an adult all the time, he really wants to be one, going to clubs and drinking, going out with lots of girls and smoking too but he’s still underage. He has alot of phony qualities, he is really irritated by hypocracy and how people talk and act, mostly their appearances. Through out the whole book he considers himself really dumb, he did get kicked out of Pencey but in the whole book he is really smart, he thinks about everything differently and is always trying to get the different things in the world, looking at things in a different perspective. I concluded that Holden isn’t dumb at all, he is just very very lazy, he doesn’t like doing things he doesn’t want to, he hates following rules but after everything, he’s a nice person who cares about alot of things even if they’re little.

Difficult moment in my life

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of time with my grandmother, we did everything together, she came to visit me almost everyday. I was growing up and well she was getting older, she had some heart problems and etc, I was too young to understand what was happening. Time was passing and even if I didn’t understand a lot of things In life I knew something was wrong, she was starting to visit less and when she did visit me, you could see how she didn’t have energy to play with me. Sometime later, I didn’t see her for about 2 weeks, I started remembering how every single night she was visiting, she took me to see the moon in our backyard and things like that. The expected thing happened, she was gone for some weeks and I asked my parents where she was all the time, they wouldn’t answer. One day my whole family was gone for the day except me obviously, all dressed in black, I was left with my nana wondering what was going on. That day they told me she passed away, of course I knew what it meant, but didn’t quite understand it. A big part of my life was gone, my best friend and my grandmother. Time helped me a lot, while time passed my sadness did too. That’s something that really helps, not thinking about stuff that makes you sad and looking at the positive things in life.

Is Holden a typical teenager?

In my opinion, Holden is a typical teenager, maybe not like every teenager but he’s really alike. Being lazy and failing classes is a normal thing, we tend to be lazy when we’re this age. I think he is but at the same time he’s not because he does things that he shouldn’t be doing, normal teens do that too, but not like him. Holden smokes in his dorm, drinks and etc. There’s a difference between teenagers, it depends how we were raised, so that’s why he’s a little of both. Some teenagers are rebels and some have their priorities straight, Holden doesn’t have them. Holden is a normal teenager, he kind of is going the wrong way in life like his teacher Mister Spencer told him, “Aren’t you worried about your future?”. He’s right, alot of teenagers are rebels and fail classes and if a typical teenager does that he is, but Holden is different, he cares about others, he knows what’s good and what’s wrong, but he doesn’t fix his problems. He wants to join the adult world, doesn’t consider himself a teen, which makes him a typical teenager who wants to grow up, stop being called a “kid” and be treated like a man in the real world. Holden Caufield is a typical teenager going in the wrong path in life.

JOHAN HAEUSSLER