Saturday, April 28, 2012
Relating Holden
When reading this quote I think of Holden right away. When I read I see that he is different from everyone else and that he has his own thoughts. When he calls people phony he's calling them fake or that they are trying to hard to be something they are not. Holden left his school where everyone was alike in ways, and when he branched off into the city he saw a different life that schools couldn't prepare him for. When he came across the prostitute or just encountering other people, he saw that they are different and phony. He would rather die knowing that the way he was living was better then living another life where he's living just to please or get around in the world. He is living to die. Instead of a quote I chose to connect it to a scene that happened in a book we read in class, The absolute true diary of a part time Indian. When Arnold attended his grandmothers funeral everyone around him started crying but he just stood there emotionless, when first reading this I questioned why he wasn't crying or anything because as a society we expect people to cry during sad events but sometimes when people don't we think there stubborn or just doesn't care. That's how Holden is, he doesn't have a lot of emotions on the outside but on the inside he does, he goes into detail about his feelings and thoughts torts them. Also Arnold laughed when his sister died and he handled that really weird and I think he laughed because he just didn't know how to handle it sort of in a way that Holden did when Allie his brother died.
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Wow, that was a great connection because now that I think about it, Holden and Arnold are a lot alike. Even in the Absolutely True Diary, Arnold leaves his old school on the reservation and branches off to his "city" which is Reardan. The only difference is that Arnold ends up becoming a big part of the school, where as we don't know what's going to happen to Holden.
ReplyDeleteYeah when first reading I thought if Holden right away. They really do have a lot in common, yes they both left there school to in ways find there real selfs but another way is that they don't express what there thinking in the same ways. Holden keeps his thoughts to himself and doesn't share them aloud. But he is truthful if your lucky enough to get his thought out loud. Arnold on the other han. He drew pictures or comics to express what he was going through. Now although
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