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= = =Joy Mayfield's Critical Paper=

Back to Critical Papers Home Joy Mayfield Second Negative Brief I. Introduction A. Greeting and preview statement: Good afternoon judges, I am the second negative speaker, Joy Mayfield and today I will show you why the plan for change that the affirmative team has presented to you will not work. Moreover, if their plan was put into effect, negative side effects would result. II. Contention #2: Plan Attack (Plan will not work) A. People don’t see violent television as harmful or a serious issue, they enjoy it because it is entertaining (card#1). B. Prohibition was illegal in the 1920s, but everyone broke the law to fine a way of feeling free and less stressed by drinking alcohol (cards #2-5). C. No one forces people to watch these violent shows; they make their own decisions and choose to watch what they want (card #6-8). III. Contention #3: Plan Disadvantages (plan may work but will cause serious side effects). A. Television can be helpful for both parents and children to learn new things (card #9). B. Violence on TV is protected under the First Amendment, as stated by the Founding Fathers (paper #10). C. If parents don’t like what their kids are watching then they can block those programs using the V-Chip, which also has a rating system so the parents can identify those programs. Ratings are given to all television programming except news, sports, and unedited movies on premium cable channels. There are six possible ratings: **TV-Y** (All Children), **TV-7** (Directed to Older Children), **TV-G** (General Audience), **TV-PG** (Parental Guidance Suggested), **TV-14** (Parents Strongly Cautioned), **and TV-MA** (Mature Audience Only). IV. Conclusion A. Signal/Summary: To conclude, judges, we, the negative team, have proven to you that controlling violence on television is already being handled. In fact, if the AAF team’s plan was enacted, these policies would not work and would cause serious side effects. We, the negative team feel as though America shouldn’t waste so much time trying to change the style of entertainment. We feel that if people aren’t satisfied then we can add more educational programs or they can just buy digital cable so they can have more of a selection. B. UCD: Judges, I remind you that violence on TV can be educational and very entertaining. However, if you feel overwhelmed by the violence you can just turn the channel or just turn off the TV. Though alcoholic beverages were illegal people still broke the rules to satisfy their wants during the prohibited prohibition. Lastly, violence on TV is protected under the First Amendment, which gives America freedom of speech, press, and religion (card# 11). Now judges, we, the negative team see no other solution but for you to vote negative. Thank you.

Debate Questions I. First 1. As a child what type of cartoons did you enjoy watching? 2. Why? 3. Did these shows make you feel more aggressive in your actions in any way? II. Second 1. What types of violent TV shows do you enjoy watching? 2. Why? 3. Have you ever imitated something you’ve seen on a violent TV show you have just watched? 4. Do you feel more aggressive in your actions once you have seen that show? 5. Why?

III. Third 1. Have you ever witnessed a death from a movie on TV? 2. How did you feel? 3. Why? 4. So basically your saying violence on TV doesn’t need to be improved? 5. Because you say you never feel more aggressive in your actions. Am I correct? IV.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Fourth 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Have you ever turned on your TV to the news and heard that someone was shot or died? 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> How did you feel about it? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Why? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Do you feel that since there is so much violence in the reality world that when you watch deaths in movies they don’t affect you? V.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Fifth 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Do some of the people you hang around on a daily basis curse? 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Because you hang around them does some of their cursing habits rub off on you and a few naughty words slip out? 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> Does any of your favorite TV shows have cursing involved in it? 4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> When you hear these curse words do you feel the need to change the channel? 5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none"> So basically you are so immune to cursing because those types of words are lingering where ever you go? Therefore, judges’ violence on TV is not what is affecting us; it is our daily environment and the minds of the people we hang around

d parent signature dueDid you show the teacher your two-pocket folder with three-ring center? (5 pts.) YES

Did you show the teacher your Parent Signature? (5 pts.) YES

January 30 — note cards due
Did you show the teacher your one pack of 3x5 notecards? (5 pts.) YES

Did you buy your own copy of The Catcher in the Rye to mark up? (optional) NO

January 31 — select a topic
View a list of potential paper topics: Choose a topic for your paper and type it here: (5 points) Holden needs a catcher rye.

February 4 — thesis due
Your thesis tells your readers what point you will be making and defending about the novel. For a guide to writing your thesis (and some examples) click here. __Write your thesis here__: (5 points) In the novel, __The Catcher In The Rye__, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is in this exact state of confusion and loneliness of what to do in his life. He wants someone to help him in his desperate situation, but doesn't know who to turn to or how to apply their advice to his reality situations. Holden's life is taking a major downfall because of his inability, which is really tearing him apart on the inside. Giving up on his tremendous knowlegde, Holden gets kicked out of Pencey Prep, ending up all alone in New York City looking for love in all the wrong places. As Holden becomes even more lonesome while being in the big city, he becomes more sensitive about things which make him depressed about his life. Trying to avoid his desperate situation, Holden goes to clubs and drinks his pain away to flee from reality. Holden needs someone to help him now, he will give up on his life having the mind set thinking there is nothing good in store for him on the earth.

Your three main body topics are the main topics you will use to defend your thesis. You should use at least three different subtopics (main bodies) to defend your thesis in the paper. Many students use 4, 5, or even more main body topics to organize their papers. THREE IS JUST A MINIMUM.

__Please enter (at least) three main body topics here__: (5 points)

1)because his parents don't support him 2)has questions 3)he needs love in his life 4)so he can be a catcher in the rye

February 6 — introductory paragraph due
Your intro paragrpah tells your readers the thesis of your paper, and briefly outlines the main body paragraph topics you will use to prove and defend your thesis. __Type **(or link to)** your Introductory Paragraph here__: (10 points) Have you ever been lost in an area resembling a maze, and felt like there wasn't anyone there to help you to give you direction in your state of loneliness and confussion? You're just lost trying to find your way out, but you don't know where to go or what else to do. In the novel, __The Catcher In The Rye__, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is in this exact state of confusion and loneliness of what to do in his life. he wants someone to help him in his desperate situation, but he doesn't know who to turn to or how to apply their advice to his reality situations. Holden's life is taking a major downfall because of his inability, which is really tearing him apart on the inside. Giving up on his tremendous knowegde, Holden gets kicked out of Pencey Prep, ending up all alone in New York City looking for love in all the wrong places. As Holden becomes more lonesome while being in the big city he becomes more sensitive about things which makes him depressed about his life. Trying to avoid his desperate situation, Holden goes to clubs and drinks his pain away to flee from reality. Holden needs someone to help him now, he will give up on his life having the mind set thinking there is nothing good in store for him on the earth. Holden needs a catcher in the rye because his parents haven't really been there for him to support or guide him through his years of growing up. Secondly, is becuse he has questions, thirdly, he needs love in his life, and fourthly, so he can be a catcher in the rye to help all the little kids.

February 7 — critical articles (secondary sources) due
You need at least three secondary sources (essays or articles about the novel written by professional critics) from which you will quote the words of the author/critic to help defend your thesis. __List the titles and authors of your three secondary sources here__: (5 points)

1)Some Crazy Cliff, Author Heiserman and James E. Miller, Jr. 2)J.D. Salinger, Warren French 3)J.D. Salinger, Warren French 4)J.D. Salinger, James and Wanda Giles 5)J.D. Salinger, Contemporary authors Online


 * NOTE**: It is a good idea to find more than three articles in case you change your mind about using one of them. Remember, your final paper must have a total of 8-15 quotes from these secondary sources to help you make your point and defend your thesis. These eight quotes must come from at least three different secondary sources.

February 8 — secondary source quotes
Using each of your three articles at least once, select at least 8 details or quotes from your articles to defend thesis. YOU MUST LIST THE QUOTE, THE SOURCE OF THE QUOTE, AND THE MAIN BODY TOPIC OF YOUR PAPER WHERE YOU WILL USE THE QUOTE. __List at least eight quotes from secondary sources here__: (5 points)

1) QUOTE:("Doesn't not suffer an inability to love but he does despair of finding a place to bestow his love.") TITLE & PAGE:pg. 195 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grunwald SUBTOPIC:Holden's love

2) QUOTE:"When the little children are playing in the rye fieldon the cliff top, Holden wants to be the one who catches them before they fall off the cliff." TITLE & PAGE:pg.198 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grunwald SUBTOPIC:catcher in the rye

3) QUOTE:"In childhood he had what he is now seeking-nonphoniness, truth, innocence. He can find it now only in Phoebe and in his dead brother Allie's baseball mitt, in red hunting cap and the tender little nuns." TITLE & PAGE:pg.199 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grundwald SUBTOPIC:innocence

4) QUOTE:("You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful because there isn't any.") TITLE & PAGE:pg.42 AUTHOR:Warren French SUBTOPIC:peacefull place

5) QUOTE:"Holden Caulfield, too, has been searching for the hero-"a catcher in the rye"- in the only way the person with no specialized abilities can." TITLE & PAGE:pg.142 AUTHOR:Warren French SUBTOPIC:hero

6) QUOTE: "He is frightened when she wishes to follow his example in refusing to go back to school, ans she slips away when Holden attempts to take her hand hand. He sees that "she's a madman sometimes"." TITLE & PAGE:pg.44 AUTHOR:Warren French SUBTOPIC:fear of letting go

7) QUOTE:"He has abandoned his madman's dream of being a cathcer in the rye and realizes that you have to let kids grow up, take their own chances, and make their own mistakes." TITLE & PAGE:pg.44 AUTHOR:Warren French SUBTOPIC:Giving up dream

8) QUOTE:"He has never wanted to join the the winning side, but he has hoped that he might keep kids from getting hooked on the game; when, however, he sees the kids on the carousel, whirling around with the crowd, but each preoccupied with grabbing the phony rings, he has realized that you cannot save people from themselves." TITLE & PAGE:pg.48 AUTHOR:Warren French SUBTOPIC:impossible to save the kids

(Feel free to add additional quotes here, using the same format as above) 9) QUOTE:"In this respect, much of Holden's sympathetic appeal lies in his loneliness an difficultyin trying to sort out the confusing impulses of the adult world." TITLE & PAGE:no pg # AUTHOR:contemporary authors online SUBTOPIC: adult world

10) QUOTE:"He cannot prevent his own fall into the adulterated world of experience, much less the fall of others." TITLE & PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:contemporary authors SUBTOPIC:the fall

11)QUOTE:"Holden's problem with growing up is that taking on adult responsibility is fraught with uncertainties." TITLE & PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:James and Wanda Giles SUPTOPIC:fear of growing up

12)QUOTE:"He seeks the refuge and a night's rest at the apartment of Mr. antolini, whom Holden considers the best and bravest teacher he has ever had." TITLE & PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:James and Wanda Giles SUPTOPIC:best bravest teacher

13)QUOTE:"The fear becomes a phobia as Holden starts to call desperately for his dead brother, Allie, to save him...Holden's concern about what happens to the ducks when the lake freezes over in Central Park. Having decided never to return to home or school again, Holden is afraid he may disappear with the ducks. He pleads with Allie not because he wants to join him in death, but because he wants Allie to help him make his way in this world." TITLE & PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:James and Wanda Giles SUBTOPIC:needs help from Allie

14)QUOTE:"He passes out and collapses on the floor. Believing he could have killed himself in the fall, he recovers and feels better. He has survived. He has experienced "a fortunate fall" into the understanding that he is responsible only to himself." TITLE &PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:James and Wanda Giles SUBTOPIC:the fall

15)QUOTE:"He knows now that people cannot be sheltered from all temptations; they must take responsibility for themselves." TITLE & PAGE:no pg. # AUTHOR:James and Wanda Giles SUBTOPIC:can't stop people from temptation

16)QUOTE:"The things that Holden finds so deeply repulsive are the things he calls "phony"-and the "phoniness" in every instance is the absence of love, and, often, the substitution of the pretense of love." TITLE & PAGE:pg.180 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grunwald SUBTOPIC:phonies lack of love

17)QUOTE:"Holden can only find genuine love in children, who have not yet learned the deadening rituals of pretense. The only person he can really talk to is his little sister, Pheobe..." TITLE & PAGE:pg.181 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grunwald SUBTOPIC:genuine love for children

18)QUOTE:"You could say he was trying to find himself, his identity, and all that..." TITLE &PAGE:pg.257 AUTHOR:Henry Anatole Grunwald SUBTOPIC:finding himself

19)QUOTE: TITLE & PAGE: AUTHOR: SUBTOPIC:

February 11 — primary source quotes
Please select at least 10 details from the novel to defend thesis Feb 11 __List them here__: (5 points)

1) QUOTE:"Life is a game boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules." PAGE NUMBER:pg.8 SUBTOPIC:life

2) QUOTE:"I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away." PAGE NUMBER:pg.13 SUBTOPIC:ducks

3) QUOTE:Holden wouldn't want to be a lawyer because he thinks that's phony job becuase you may not be saving that person life because you care they would do it because it involves money. PAGE NUMBER:172 SUBTOPIC:phony

4) QUOTE:("This fall I think you're riding for-it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own enviroment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own enviroment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really started.") PAGE NUMBER:pg 187 SUBTOPIC:horrible fall

5) QUOTE:("The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.") PAGE NUMBER:pg.188 SUBTOPIC:mature and immature man

6) QUOTE:("you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediatly. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.") PAGE NUMBER:pg.188 SUBTOPIC:where to go

7) QUOTE:Somebody'd written "FU" on the wall. It drove me darn near crazy." PAGE NUMBER:pg.201 SUBTOPIC:FU

8) QUOTE:"Everytime I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, "Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie, don't let me disappear. Please, Allie." And then when I'd reach the other side of the street without disappearing. I'd thank him." PAGE NUMBER:198 SUBTOPIC:fear of disappearing

9) QUOTE:"Then the carrousel started, and I watched her go around and around...All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Pheobe, and I was sort of affraid she'd fall off the god darn horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bab if you say anything to them." PAGE NUMBER:pg.211 SUBTOPIC:carrousel

10) QUOTE:If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" PAGE NUMBER:83 SUBTOPIC:duck talk with cab driver

(Feel free to add aditional quotes here, using the same format as above)

11)Quote:I certainly began to feel like a a prize horse's butt, though, sitting there all by myself. There wasn't anyhting to do except smoke and drink." Page Number:pg 86 Subtopic:lonely at club

12)Quote:I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy.Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead." Page Number:90 Subtopic:lousy

13)Quote:Finally Old Luce showed up. Old Luce.What a guy.He was suppose to be my Student Adviser when I was Whooton. Page Number:pg. 143 Subtopic:Luce help

14)Quote:"Hey," I said, just before he beat it. "Did your father ever psychoanalyze you?" "Me? Why do you ask?" No reason. Did he, though? Has he?" "Not exactly. He's helped me to adjust myself to a certain extent, but an extensive analysis hasn't been neccessay. Why do you ask?" "No reason. I was just wondering Page Number:pg. 149 Subtopic:Luce's father

15)Quote:("Phoebe, have you been smoking a cigarette in here? Tell me the truth, please, young lady." "What?" old Phoebe said. "You heard me." "I just lit one for a second. I just took one puff. Then I threw it out the window." "Why, may I ask?" "I couldn't sleep." "I don't like that, Phoebe. I don't don't like that at all," my mother said.) Page Number:177 Subtopic: Phoebe smoking

February 12 — outline your main body
Please arrange your 10 primary source quotes and your 8 secondary source quotes into an outline of the body of your critical paper. In other words, list the quotes in the order you will use them under each main body topic.

If you use a word document to do this, this could become the framework for your actual paper (because you could type your own writing in between the quotes after you've arranged them in order in this outline, thus creating a draft of your actual paper).

__Please post **(or link to)** a word document containing the outline of your main body (everything but your intro and conclusion) here:__ (5 points)

=Joy’s Outline= Have you ever been lost in an area resembling a maze, and felt like there wasn't anyone there to help you to give you direction in your state of loneliness and confussion? You're just lost trying to find your way out, but you don't know where to go or what else to do. In the novel, __The Catcher In The Rye__, by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is in this exact state of confusion and loneliness of what to do in his life. he wants someone to help him in his desperate situation, but he doesn't know who to turn to or how to apply their advice to his reality situations. Holden's life is taking a major downfall because of his inability, which is really tearing him apart on the inside. Giving up on his tremendous knowegde, Holden gets kicked out of Pencey Prep, ending up all alone in New York City looking for love in all the wrong places. As Holden becomes more lonesome while being in the big city he becomes more sensitive about things which makes him depressed about his life. Trying to avoid his desperate situation, Holden goes to clubs and drinks his pain away to flee from reality. Holden needs someone to help him now, he will give up on his life having the mind set thinking there is nothing good in store for him on the earth. Holden needs a catcher in the rye because his family hasn't given him much support or guidance through his years of growing up. Secondly, he nedds love in his life, and thirdly, so he can be a catcher in the rye to help all the little kids. II. Parents aren’t involved A.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> “Holden’s problem with growing up is that taking on adult responsibility is fraught with uncertainties.” B.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> “He seeks the refuge and a night’s rest at the apartment of Mr. Antolini, whom Holden considers the best teacher he has ever had.” C.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> The fear becomes a phobia as Holden starts to call desperately for his dead brother, Allie, to save him…Holden’s concern about what happens to the ducks when the lake freezes over in Central Park. Having decided never to return to home or to school again, Holden is afraid he may disappear with the ducks. He pleads with Allie not because he wants to join him in death, but because he wants Allie to help him make his way in this world.” D.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> You could say he was trying to find himself, his identity, and all that…” E.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  Life is a game boy. Life is game that one plays according to the rules.” F.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  (“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”  G.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  (“This fall I think you’re riding for-it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really started.”) H.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  (“You’re going to have to find out where to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. Not you.” I.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  "Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, "Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie, don't let me disappear. Please, Allie." And then when I'd reach the other side of the street without disappearing. I'd thank him." J.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> ("Phoebe, have you been smoking a cigarette in here? Tell me the truth, please, young lady." "What?" old Phoebe said. "You heard me." "I just lit one for a second. I just took one puff. Then I threw it out the window." "Why, may I ask?" "I couldn't sleep." "I don't like that, Phoebe. I don't like that at all," my mother said.) K.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " Holden Caulfield, too, has been searching for the hero-“a catcher in the rye”-in the only way the person with no specialized abilities can.”  III. Holden has questions  D.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  "Hey," I said, just before he beat it. "Did your father ever psychoanalyze you?" "Me? Why do you ask?" No reason. Did he, though? Has he?" "Not exactly. He's helped me to adjust myself to a certain extent, but an extensive analysis hasn't been necessary. Why do you ask?" "No reason. I was just wondering.”  IV. In search for love  A.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  (“ Doesn’t suffer an inability to love but he does despair of finding a place to bestow his love.”)  B.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">   “In this respect, much of Holden’s sympathetic appeal lies in his loneliness an difficulty in trying to sort out the confusing impulses of the adult world.”  C.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  The things that Holden finds so deeply repulsive are the things he calls “phony”-and the “phoniness” in every instance is the absence of love, and, often, the substitution of the pretense of love.” D.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> “I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's butt, though, sitting there all by myself. There wasn't anything to do except smoke and drink."  E.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  “I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead." F.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> “In childhood he had what he is now seeking- non phoniness, truth, innocence. He can find it now only in Phoebe and in his dead brother Allie’s baseball mitt, in red haunting cap and the tender little nuns.”
 * __ OUTLINE __ ||
 * I. Introdution Paragragh
 * 1) “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.”
 * 2) “ If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?"
 * 3) “Finally Old Luce showed up. Old Luce. What a guy. He was supposed to be my Student Adviser when I was Whooton.”

V. Wants to be the catcher in the rye A.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> When the little children are playing in the rye field on the cliff top, Holden wants to be the one who catches them before they fall off the cliff.” B.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  “He is frightened when she wishes to follow his example in refusing to go back to school, and she slips away when Holden attempts to take her hand. He sees that “she’s a madman sometimes.” C.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " He has abandoned his madman’s dream of being a catcher in the rye and realizes that you have to let kids grow up, take their own chances, and make their own mistakes.”   D.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  " He has never wanted to join the winning side, but he has hoped that he might keep kids from getting hooked on the game; when, however, he sees the kids on the carrousel, whirling around with the crowd, but each preoccupied with grabbing the phony rings, he has realized that you cannot save people from themselves.” E.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " He cannot prevent his own fall into the adulterated world of experience, much less the fall of others.”   F.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  " He knows now that people cannot be sheltered from all temptations; they must take responsibility for themselves.” G.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " Holden wouldn’t want to be a lawyer because he thinks that’s a phony job because you may not be saving that persons life because you care, they would only do it because it involves money.   H.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">  " Somebody’d written “FU” on the wall. It drove me darn near crazy.” I.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " Then the carrousel started, I watched her go around and around…All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the god darn horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.”   J.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> "  Holden can only find genuine love in children who have not yet learned the deadening rituals of pretense. The only person he can really talk to is his little sister, Phoebe…” K.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal"> " He passes out and collapses on the floor. Believing he could have killed himself in the fall, he recovers and feels better. He has survived. He has experienced “a fortunate fall” into the understanding that he is responsible only to himself.”   L. “ You can’t ever find  a place that’s nice and peaceful because there isn’t any." V. Conclusion ||

February 13 — first draft of main body
Write a draft of the body of your paper for peer review.

Please create a link to this first draft, calling it (YOURNAME)'S FIRST DRAFT, as a __new__ wiki page. Ask __at least three__ of your classmates to __read__ your draft (you might need to tell them where to find it by emailing them a link). Students will be expected to read each other's drafts __and leave comments__ in the discussion board. (10 points) Holden needs a catcher in the rye because his parents haven’t truly been there for him as a parent. They never call or visit to see how he’s doing in school or anything. They think he will be coming home on Wednesday from Prencey Prep for Christmas, but what they don’t know is that Holden is struggling with his life. “You could say he was trying to find himself, his identity, and all that…” (pg. 257 Henry Anatole Grunwald). Holden is in a confused state, he doesn’t know what to do with his life. He has been kicked out Pencey Prep, which is the third school he has been kicked out of, because he doesn’t apply his knowledge to his work; he just gives up on himself. Before he leaves his teacher, Mr. Spencer wanted to talk to him and said “Life is a game boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” (pg. 8). Holden doesn’t take those words of wisdom seriously, because on the inside Holden is still an immature boy who doesn’t want to grow up and take reality serious. “Holden’s problem with growing up is that taking on adult responsibility is fraught with uncertainties.” ( no pg.num, James and Wanda Giles). His parents were never really around to tell him what he should expect in the world because they were so busy making money working at their phony jobs and paying less attention to their kids. When Holden sneaks home to see Phoebe, he began to smoke and right when his parents come home he throws it out. Their mother comes into Phoebe’s room and asks her why she was still up and says; ("Phoebe, have you been smoking a cigarette in here? Tell me the truth, please, young lady." "What?" old Phoebe said. "You heard me." "I just lit one for a second. I just took one puff. Then I threw it out the window." "Why, may I ask?" "I couldn't sleep." "I don't like that, Phoebe. I don't like that at all," my mother said.) (pg.177). The problem with how the mother handles that situation makes her seem careless about her daughter’s behavior. Their parents may have given up on themselves as being parents because they have lost their son, Allie to leukemia. They just left Holden out in the big world by himself having big expectations for him to achieve so he can be successful, but Holden doesn’t know how to survive in the world alone. This could have put pressure on Holden because his brother, D.B. is in Hollywood; a big movie producer and his other brother, Allie is dead. His father was never around to give him the father son talk or not even the sex talk, his dad didn’t show any sign of care. So Holden never really had any male figure to look up to, idolize as he was growing up no one to truly encourage him or that really cared. Except for one of his most beloved teachers, Mr. Antolini; Holden goes to his house when he has no other place to go. “ He seeks the refuge and a night’s rest at the apartment of Mr. Antolini, whom Holden considers the best teacher he has ever had.” (no pg. num, James and Wanda Giles). As Holden is sitting on the couch of Mr. Antolini he is ready to go to sleep, but Mr. Antolini is having a serious talk with him. He was saying, (“This fall I think you’re riding for-it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really started.”) (pg. 187). Then Mr. Antolini recited and gave him a quote recited by the poet, Wilhelm Stekel, that said (“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”) (pg.188). When Holden realized that Mr. Antolini was trying to help him it made him appreciate him as his teacher even more. "Holden Caulfield, too, has been searching for the hero-“a catcher in the rye”-in the only way the person with no specialized abilities can.” (pg.142, Warren French). In disguise Mr. Antolini took on that role to prevent Holden from making that tremendous mistake that could ruin his life for good. Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he has questions that have never been answered as he was growing up. “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.” (pg. 13). To me I think this question about where the ducks go reflect on his life. He is really asking the question; where he is supposed to go once you grow up. However, I think he is too scared to ask someone his real question because they would think he was weird. When Holden was in the back of a taxi cab he brought up that crazy question to the cab driver, about where the ducks go. Which made the cab driver get all sore at Holden, but the cab driver said “If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" (pg.83). After that weird incident with the sore cab driver Holden goes to the bar because he was meeting Old Luce for a couple of drinks. “Finally Old Luce showed up. Old Luce. What a guy. He was supposed to be my Student Adviser when I was Whooton." (pg. 143). I think Holden sees Luce as like an older brother that he kind of looks up to because everything Luce told him, he believed. As they were having a good time talking and laughing Luce looks at his watch and says he has another place he needs to attend. Before he leaves Holden says, "Hey," I said, just before he beat it. "Did your father ever psychoanalyze you?" "Me? Why do you ask?" No reason. Did he, though? Has he?" "Not exactly. He's helped me to adjust myself to a certain extent, but an extensive analysis hasn't been necessary. Why do you ask?" "No reason. I was just wondering.” (pg.148). Holden wanted to know how he made it in the world and took such great responsibility in life. Luce’s success took place because of his father’s love and support; his father helped him through his tough times and taught him to learn from his mistakes. Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he needs love in his life he is so lonely and depressed and is in search for love. To cure his lonesome and depressed senses he goes to clubs to drink and smoke his pain away, to take him away from his baffled state. “I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's butt, though, sitting there all by myself. There wasn't anything to do except smoke and drink." (pg.86) That gave him a little comfort while being in his lonesome situation. After leaving the club he feels lousy; “I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead."(pg. 90). He needs comfort from someone, someone to talk to, to keep him from giving up on himself, he needs love. “In this respect, much of Holden’s sympathetic appeal lies in his loneliness an difficulty in trying to sort out the confusing impulses of the adult world.” (pg.no pg. num, contemporary authors online). Feeling so alone and depressed Holden becomes careless and gets a prostitute to come to his hotel room to give him a throw. Once he agreed to have a prostitute he came to his senses and became nervous and refused to make love with her. He wanted to sit down and talk to get to know her because she also seemed nervous and he felt bad for the girl. He feels that he can’t find love in most adult’s because they are phony’s in his eyes because they have already lost their innocence. “ The things that Holden finds so deeply repulsive are the things he calls “phony”-and the “phoniness” in every instance is the absence of love, and, often, the substitution of the pretense of love.” (pg.180). (“Doesn’t suffer an inability to love but he does despair of finding a place to bestow his love.”)(pg.195, Henry Anatole Grunwald). “In childhood he had what he is now seeking- non phoniness, truth, innocence. He can find it now only in Phoebe and in his dead brother Allie’s baseball mitt, in his red haunting cap and the tender little nuns.” (pg.199, Henry Anatole Grunwald). Holden feels that the world has become so perverse that there is no good place where you can find love and good people to share his love with. Holden needs a catcher in the rye so he can be the catcher in the rye to save the little kids of their innocence especially Phoebe. “When the little children are playing in the rye field on the cliff top, Holden wants to be the one who catches them before they fall off the cliff.”(pg.198, Hennry Anatole Grunwald). That is the only job he could see himself doing because being a lawyer like his dad he feels is a phony job. Holden wouldn’t want to be a lawyer because he thinks that’s a phony job because you may not be saving that persons life because you care, they would only do it because it involves money.” (pg.172). He wants a job that involves love, to show people that he cares for them and to show them that he isn’t helping them for the money. "Holden can only find genuine love in children who have not yet learned the deadening rituals of pretense. The only person he can really talk to is his little sister, Phoebe…” (pg.181, Henry Anatole Grunwald). He wants to protect the little kids of their innocence so they won’t grow up and become phonies. When he went to Phoebe’s school he saw that, “Somebody’d written “FU” on the wall. It drove me darn near crazy.”(pg.201). He erased it before it corrupted a child’s mind, then when he went to the museum the word appeared once again. This time it was written in crayon under the glass wall and he couldn’t remove it. Which made him realize; “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful because there isn’t any.” (pg.42, Warren French). While waiting for Phoebe to meeting him at the museum after school Holden goes to the bathroom, he wasn’t feeling well. “He passes out and collapses on the floor. Believing he could have killed himself in the fall, he recovers and feels better. He has survived. He has experienced “a fortunate fall” into the understanding that he is responsible only to himself.”(no pg. num,James and Wanda Giles). That was the fall that Mr. Antolini was talking about, but luckily Holden’s fall was a success that made him realize that he cannot stop others from doing what they want to do. “He knows now that people cannot be sheltered from all temptations; they must take responsibility for themselves.” (no pg. num, James and Wanda Giles). “He has abandoned his madman’s dream of being a catcher in the rye and realizes that you have to let kids grow up, take their own chances, and make their own mistakes.”(pg.44, Warren French) “He cannot prevent his own fall into the adulterated world of experience, much less the fall of others.” (no pg. num, contemporary authors). He wanted to be the catcher in the rye to all the little kids because he wanted to keep the kids safe from any hurt or pain. He has never wanted to join the winning side, but he has hoped that he might keep kids from getting hooked on the game; when, however, he sees the kids on the carrousel, whirling around with the crowd, but each preoccupied with grabbing the phony rings, he has realized that you cannot save people from themselves.”(pg.48, Warren French). Out of any of the little kids he wanted to protect his little sister, Phoebe from growing up and falling. “He is frightened when she wishes to follow his example in refusing to go back to school, and she slips away when Holden attempts to take her hand. He sees that “she’s a madman sometimes.” (pg.44, Warren French). Holden finally lets go when him and Phoebe goes to the park and she goes on the carrousel. “ Then the carrousel started, I watched her go around and around…All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the god darn horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.” (pg. 211). Holden lets go of all the little kids and will let them face the corrupt world on their own so they can fall and hopefully learn from their mistakes.

February 14 — peer review
__List the names of at least three of your classmates whose first drafts you read and commented upon:__ (5 points)

1)Natasha Valor 2)Caitlyn Canoway 3)Ben...

At this point, begin revising your draft and come up with a second rough draft.

February 19 — final rough draft
Submit a paper copy of your final draft of the body to the teacher. (20 points) Joy Mayfield Mrs. Jacobson/ Mr. Swindells, pd.8 English 10 20 February 2008 Crying Out

Holden needs a catcher in the rye because his parents haven’t truly been there for him as his loving and caring guardian; they never call or visit to see how he’s doing in school or anything. His parents know he will be coming home on Wednesday from Prencey Prep for Christmas. What they don’t know is that Holden is struggling with his life. “You could say he was trying to find himself, his identity, and all that…” (pg. 257 Henry Anatole Grunwald). Holden is in a confused state, he doesn’t know what to do with his life. He has been kicked out Pencey Prep, which is the third school he has been kicked out of. He doesn’t apply his knowledge to his work; he just gives up on himself. Before he leaves his teacher, Mr. Spencer wanted to talk to him and says “Life is a game boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” (pg.8). Holden doesn’t take those words of wisdom seriously, because on the inside Holden is still an immature boy who doesn’t want to grow up and take reality serious. “Holden’s problem with growing up is that taking on adult responsibility is fraught with uncertainties.” (no pg.num, James and Wanda Giles). His parents were never really around to tell him what he should expect in the world because they were so busy making money working at their phony jobs and paying less attention to him and his siblings. When Holden sneaks home to see Phoebe, he began to smoke and right when his parents come home he throws it out. Their mother comes into Phoebe’s room and asks her why she was still up and says; ("Phoebe, have you been smoking a cigarette in here? Tell me the truth, please, young lady." "What?" old Phoebe said? "You heard me." "I just lit one for a second. I just took one puff. Then I threw it out the window." "Why, may I ask?" "I couldn't sleep." "I don't like that, Phoebe. I don't like that at all," my mother said.) (pg.177). The problem with how the mother handles that situation makes her seem careless about her daughter’s behavior. I think their parents may have given up on themselves as being true guardians, because they have lost their son, Allie to leukemia. I think they put the blame on themselves for their son’s death, thinking it was their fault for what happened and they just stopped trying. They just left Holden out in the big world by himself having big expectations for him to achieve so he can be successful just like their older son D.B. who is in Hollywood; living the life of a big time movie producer. Holden is crying out for help because he doesn’t know how to survive in the world alone and on top of that be a huge success as his older brother is. This urge of sudden success may have put pressure on Holden which could be the reason for why he is always daydreaming or fanaticizing about going somewhere or being some else. This is another technique he uses to escape his depressed and confused situation of what to do with his life. His brothers nor his own father weren’t around too often to have the father to son or brother to brother talk. His dad and his brother showed no sign of care because they were so busy with their phony jobs. So Holden never really had any male figure to look up to, idolize as he was growing up no one to truly encourage him or that really cared. Except for one of his most beloved teachers, Mr. Antolini; Holden goes to his house when he has no other place to go. “He seeks the refuge and a night’s rest at the apartment of Mr. Antolini, whom Holden considers the best teacher he has ever had.” (no pg. num, James and Wanda Giles). As Holden is sitting on the couch of Mr. Antolini he is ready to go to sleep, but Mr. Antolini is having a serious talk with him. He was telling Holden, (“This fall I think you’re riding for-it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really started.”) (pg. 187). Then Mr. Antolini recited and gave him a quote recited by the poet, Wilhelm Stekel, that said (“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”) (pg.188). When Holden realized that Mr. Antolini was trying to help him it made him appreciate him as his teacher even more. "Holden Caulfield, too, has been searching for the hero-“a catcher in the rye”-in the only way the person with no specialized abilities can.” (pg.142, Warren French). In disguise Mr. Antolini took on that role to prevent Holden from making that tremendous (fall) that could ruin his life for good. Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he has questions that have never been answered as he was growing up. “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.” (pg. 13). To me I think this question about where the ducks go reflect on his life. I think he is really asking the question; where he is supposed to go once you grow up. However, I think he is too scared to ask someone his real question because they would think he was weird. When Holden was in the back of a taxi cab he brought up that crazy question to the cab driver, about where the ducks go. Which made the cab driver get all sore at Holden, but the cab driver said “If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" (pg.83). After that weird incident with the sore cab driver Holden goes to the bar because he was meeting Old Luce for a couple of drinks. “Finally Old Luce showed up. Old Luce. What a guy. He was supposed to be my Student Adviser when I was Whooton." (pg.143). I think Holden sees Luce as like an older brother that he kind of looks up to because everything Luce told him, he believed. As they were having a good time talking and laughing Luce looks at his watch and says he has another place he needs to attend. Before he leaves Holden says, "Hey," I said, just before he beat it. "Did your father ever psychoanalyze you?" "Me? Why do you ask?" No reason. Did he, though? Has he?" "Not exactly. He's helped me to adjust myself to a certain extent, but an extensive analysis hasn't been necessary. Why do you ask?" "No reason. I was just wondering.” (pg.148). I think Holden wanted to know how he made it in the world and took such great responsibility in life. Luce’s success took place because of his father’s love and support; his father helped him through his tough times and taught him to learn from his mistakes. Thirdly, Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he needs love in his life he is so lonely and depressed and is in search for love. To cure his lonesome and depressed senses he goes to clubs to drink and smoke his pain away, to take him away from his baffling state. “I certainly began to feel like a prize horse's butt, though, sitting there all by myself. There wasn't anything to do except smoke and drink." (pg.86). That gave him a little comfort while being in his lonesome situation, because that would take him away from reality. After leaving the club he feels lousy; “I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead."(pg. 90). He needs comfort from someone, someone to talk to, to keep him from giving up on himself, he needs love. “In this respect, much of Holden’s sympathetic appeal lies in his loneliness an difficulty in trying to sort out the confusing impulses of the adult world.” (pg.no pg. num, contemporary authors online). Feeling so alone and depressed Holden becomes careless and gets a prostitute to come to his hotel room to give him a throw. Once he agreed to have a prostitute he comes to his senses and becomes nervous and refuses to make love with her. He wanted to sit down and talk to get to know her because she also seemed nervous and he felt bad for the girl. He feels that (“Doesn’t suffer an inability to love but he does despair of finding a place to bestow his love.”) (pg.195, Henry Anatole Grunwald). A problem that Holden has with the adult world is he can’t find love in most adult’s because they are phony’s in his eyes because they have already lost their innocence. “The things that Holden finds so deeply repulsive are the things he calls “phony”-and the “phoniness” in every instance is the absence of love, and, often, the substitution of the pretense of love.” (pg.180). “In childhood he had what he is now seeking- non phoniness, truth, innocence. He can find it now only in Phoebe and in his dead brother Allie’s baseball mitt, in his red haunting cap and the tender little nuns.” (pg.199, Henry Anatole Grunwald). Holden feels that the world has become so perverse that there is no good place where you can find love and no good people to share his love with anyone. Holden needs a catcher in the rye so he can be the catcher in the rye to save the little kids of their innocence especially Phoebe. “When the little children are playing in the rye field on the cliff top, Holden wants to be the one who catches them before they fall off the cliff.”(pg.198, Henry Anatole Grunwald). That is the only job he could see himself doing because being a lawyer like his father he feels is a phony job. Holden wouldn’t want to be a lawyer because he thinks that’s a phony job because you may not be saving that persons life because you care, they would only do it because it involves money.” (pg.172). He wants a job that involves love; to show people that he cares for them and to show them that he isn’t helping them for the money. "Holden can only find genuine love in children who have not yet learned the deadening rituals of pretense. The only person he can really talk to is his little sister, Phoebe…” (pg.181, Henry Anatole Grunwald). He wants to protect his sister and the little kids of their innocence so they won’t grow up and become phonies. When he went to Phoebe’s school he saw that, “Somebody’d written “FU” on the wall. It drove me darn near crazy.”(pg.201). Holden erases it before it corrupted a child’s mind, then when he went to the museum the word appeared once again. This time it was written in crayon under the glass wall and he couldn’t remove it. Which made him realize; “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful because there isn’t any.” (pg.42, Warren French). While waiting for Phoebe to meet him at the museum after school, Holden goes to the bathroom, he wasn’t feeling well. “He passes out and collapses on the floor. Believing he could have killed himself in the fall, he recovers and feels better. He has survived. He has experienced “a fortunate fall” into the understanding that he is responsible only to himself.”(no pg. num, James and Wanda Giles). That was the fall that Mr. Antolini was talking about, but luckily Holden’s fall was a success that made him realize that he cannot stop others from doing what they want to do. “He knows now that people cannot be sheltered from all temptations; they must take responsibility for themselves.” (no pg. num, James and Wanda Giles). “He has abandoned his madman’s dream of being a catcher in the rye and realizes that you have to let kids grow up, take their own chances, and make their own mistakes.”(pg.44, Warren French) “He cannot prevent his own fall into the adulterated world of experience, much less the fall of others.” (no pg. num, contemporary authors). He wanted to be the catcher in the rye to all the little kids because he wanted to keep the kids safe from any hurt or pain. He has never wanted to join the winning side, but he has hoped that he might keep kids from getting hooked on the game; when, however, he sees the kids on the carrousel, whirling around with the crowd, but each preoccupied with grabbing the phony rings, he has realized that you cannot save people from themselves.”(pg.48, Warren French). Out of any of the little kids he wanted to protect his little sister, Phoebe from growing up and falling. “He is frightened when she wishes to follow his example in refusing to go back to school, and she slips away when Holden attempts to take her hand. He sees that “she’s a madman sometimes.” (pg.44, Warren French). Holden finally lets go when him and Phoebe goes to the park and she goes on the carrousel. “Then the carrousel started, I watched her go around and around…All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the god darn horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.” (pg.211). Holden lets go of all the little kids and will let them face the corrupt world on their own so they can fall and hopefully learn from their own mistakes.

February 21 — rough draft of conclusion paragraph
__Please type **(or link to)** the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here__: (5 points)

To conclude, Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he needs a savior to help him through all his struggles, his parents couldn’t be his savior because they are so focused on their phony jobs and making money. He can’t rely on his siblings because his older brother, D.B. is in Hollywood, his other brother, Allie is dead, and his little sister, Phoebe is just way too young to even know how to help herself. Since Holden barley has anyone to get love from or to give his love to, he is very lonely and is in need of love. To escape his helpless situation he goes to clubs and drinks and smokes his pain and stress away. I feel strongly that Holden needs a catcher in the rye to stop and talk to him before he does something stupid, such as commit suicide because he is so lonely and confused. Since Holden is just having a rough life and, because he loves his little sister, Phoebe dearly he doesn’t want her to go through the perverted world without a catcher in the rye. He wants to protect all the little kids from the corrupt world before they screw up their lives as he has done to his own. Finally, Holden understands how life works; as you grow up you may fall and get a few bumps and bruises in life. You shouldn’t let that stop you, you need to get back up, heel and continue on in life and learn from your mistakes and be cautious so you won’t reiterate that same mistake in life.

February 22 — final draft of conclusion paragraph
Revise your conclusion paragraph and present a copy to your teacher today. __Also, please type **(or link to)** the rough draft of your conclusion paragraph here__: (10 points) To conclude, Holden needs a catcher in the rye because he needs a savior to help him through all his struggles, his parents couldn’t be his savior because they are so focused on their phony jobs and making money. He can’t rely on his siblings because his older brother, D.B. is in Hollywood, his other brother, Allie is dead, and his little sister, Phoebe is just way too young to even know how to help herself. Since Holden barley has anyone to get love from or to give his love to, he is very lonely and is in need of love. To escape his helpless situation he goes to clubs and drinks and smokes his pain and stress away. I feel very strong on the fact that Holden needs a catcher in the rye to stop and talk to him before he does something stupid, such as commit suicide. He is so lonely and confused, and the problem is that he doesn’t express his feelings with anyone. Since Holden is just having a rough life without properly communicating. The only person he can really tell and show his true feelings to is Phoebe. So he won’t see his sister that he loves so dearly and all the other little kids go through what he went through. He doesn’t want them to go through the perverted world without a catcher in the rye. He wants to protect all the little kids from the corrupt world before they screw up their lives as he has done to his own. Finally, Holden understands how life works; as you grow up you may fall and get a few bumps and bruises in life. You shouldn’t let that stop you, you need to get back up, heel those sores and bruises and continue on in life and learn from your mistakes and be cautious so you won’t reiterate that same mistake in life.

February 25 — Works Cited Page due
Turn in a paper copy of your works cited page to your teacher today! __Link to the Word document of your works cited page here__: (20 points)

Giles, James R., and Wanda H. Giles, eds. "J. D Salinger." __Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 173: American Novelists Since World War II, Fifth Series__. , London, Hamilton: Thompson Gale, 1996. 16 Feb. 2008 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu>. Henry, Grunwald A. __Salinger__. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1962. "J.D. Salinger." __Contemporary Authors Online__. Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2005. __Literature__ __Resource Center__. Thompson Gale. North Penn High School. 6 Feb. 2008 <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu>.

Salinger, Jake D. __The Catcher In The Rye__. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

Warren, French G. __J.D. Salinger__. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1976.

Warren, French G. __J.D. Salinger Revisited__. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

February 27 — CRITICAL PAPER DUE!!!
Turn in the final draft of critical paper TODAY, including: a) note cards b) outline of body c) all rough drafts d) completed checklist, signed e) final draft of paper, typed, double spaced (5-7 pgs.) f) final works cited / references page

(100 points)

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