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January 31 — select a topic
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Holden thinks of children in an overly sentimental way

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__: Holden Caulfield in the book, __The Catcher in the Rye__, glorifies childhood, and believes that children are perfect. His view of children is very sentimental and immature. Three examples that show Holden as having immature and sentimental beliefs are: his feelings toward his sister, Phoebe, his feelings toward his brother, Allie and his desire to be the catcher in the rye so that he can save children from the phony adult world.

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) views of Phoebe 2) views of Allie 3) desire to be "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)

__The Catcher in the Rye__ was written by JD Salinger in 1945. The main character of the book, Holden Caulfield is a seventeen year old boy who abhors phonies, and he thinks all adults are phonies. Holden, however does not think that children are phonies. In the book, __The Catcher in the Rye__, he glorifies childhood, and believes that children are perfect. His view of children is very sentimental and immature. Three examples that show Holden as having immature and sentimental beliefs are: his feelings toward his sister, Phoebe, his feelings toward his brother, Allie and his desire to be the catcher in the rye so that he can save children from the phony adult world.

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) In Memoriam: Allie Caulfield in //The Catcher in the Rye//; Edwin Haviland Miller 2) Holden Caulfield and American Protest; Joyce Rowe 3) J.D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff; Arthur Heiserman and James E. Miller, Jr. 4.)The Burning Carousel and the Carnivalesque: Subversion and Transcendence at the close of //The Catcher in the Rye;// Yasuhiro Takuchi


 * 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: Life stopped for Holden on July 18, 1946, the day his brother died of leukemia. Holden was then thirteen, and four years later--the time of the narrative--he is emotionally still at the same age, although he has matured into a gangly six-foot adolescent. TITLE & PAGE: In Memoriam: Allie Caulfield in //The Catcher in the Rye// AUTHOR: Edwin Haviland Miller SUBTOPIC: His views on Allie

2) QUOTE:The family member with the greatest need of being caught, arguably, is Allie Caulfield (because of his fatal leukemia), and Allie must be seen as the primary inspiration for Holden's dream of becoming a catcher in the rye. However, Holden takes on so many of Allie's characteristics that he emerges as possessing a desire to become Allie (the fallen) which infuses and redefines his desire to be a catcher in the rye. TITLE & PAGE: The Burning Carousel and the Carnivalesque: Subversion and Transcendence at the close of //The Catcher in the Rye;// pp. 320-36 AUTHOR: Yasuhiro Takeuchi SUBTOPIC: His views on Allie

3) QUOTE: When the title children are playing in the rye-field on the clifftop, Holden wants to be the one who catches them before they fall off the cliff. He is not driven toward honor or courage. He is not driven toward love of woman. Holden is driven toward love of his fellow-man, charity.... Holden is actually frightened by a frontier code of masculinitya code which sometimes requires its adherents to behave in sentimental and bumptious fashions. TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff pp. 129-131 AUTHOR: Arthur Heiserman and James E. Miller SUBTOPIC: Desire to be "catcher in the rye"

4) QUOTE: In Holden's postwar lexicon, America and the world are interchangeable terms. And American global hegemony is given its due in the "Fuck you" expletives which Holden sees as an ineluctable blight spreading through space and time--from the walls of his sister's school, to the tomb of the Egyptian mummies at the Metropolitan Museum, to his own future gravestone. ("If you had a million years ... you couldn't rub out even //half// the "Fuck you" signs in the world.") Like Scott Fitzgerald, Salinger envisions American society as a kind of gigantic Midas, frozen at the heart and thus unable to mature. For all its wealth, its members cannot generate enough respect for their own humanity to care either for their past or their future. TITLE & PAGE: Holden Caulfield and American Protest pp.77-86 AUTHOR: Joyce Rowe SUBTOPIC: Desire to be catcher in the rye

5) QUOTE:Allie's death occurred when Holden was thirteen, the age when puberty begins. On Allie's side of the border it is still childhood, a time when self and world seem, at least in memory, to exist in an enchanted unity. The painful rupture of this sense of self-completion by adolescent self-consciousness and self-doubt is figured in Holden's ritual smashing of the garage window panes at the news of Allie's death. The fact that Holden breaks his own hand in the act--a kind of punitive self-sacrifice--only underscores its symbolic relation to the greater self-mutilation which the loss of childhood signifies for him TITLE & PAGE: Holden Caulfield and American Protest pp. 77-86 AUTHOR: Joyce Rowe SUBTOPIC: Views on Allie

6) QUOTE: The night after Allie's death Holden slept in the garage and broke "all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by the time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie." The act may have been "stupid"--which is one of his pet words to denigrate himself as well as others--but it also reflects his uncontrollable anger, at himself for wishing Allie dead and at his brother for leaving him alone and burdened with feelings of guilt. Similarly, the attack on the station wagon may be seen as his way of getting even with a father who was powerless either to save Allie or to understand Holden. Because he was hospitalized, he was unable to attend the funeral, to witness the completion of the life process, but by injuring himself he received the attention and sympathy which were denied him during Allie's illness. His actions here as elsewhere are inconsistent and ambivalent, but always comprehensible in terms of his reaction to the loss of Allie. TITLE & PAGE: In Memoriam: Allie Caulfield in //The Catcher in the Rye// pp.129-137 AUTHOR: Edwin Haviland Miller SUBTOPIC: Views on Allie

7) QUOTE: She is his little sister Phoebe whom he must protect at all costs from the phantoms of lust, hypocrisy, conceit and fear all of the attributes which Holden sees in society.... So at the end ... Holden delights in circles  a comforting, bounded figure which yet connotes hopelessness. He breaks down as he watches his beloved little Phoebe going round and round on a carousel; she is so //damned// happy TITLE & PAGE: J.D. Salinger: Some Crazy Cliff pg. 129-131 AUTHOR: Arthur Heiserman and James E. Miller, Jr. SUBTOPIC: Views on Phoebe

8) QUOTE:In this climactic scene Phoebe plays a double role. About Allie's age when he died, she is the sister disappointed in the failures of her idealized brother, but she is also an underaged, undersized mother figure. Firmly but affectionately Phoebe presses Holden to explain why he has been expelled. He pours forth all his phony rationalizations, most of which begin and end with something or somebody "depressing" him. When Phoebe suggests that the fault may be his--"You don't like anything that's happening"--he is "even more depressed." TITLE & PAGE: In Memoriam: Allie Caulfiled in //The Catcher int the Rye// pp.129-136 AUTHOR: Edwin Haviland Miller SUBTOPIC: Views on Allie

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

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: The kid was swell. He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming. I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing that song, "If a body catch a body comming through the rye". He had a pretty little voice, too. He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The cars zoomed by, brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the curb and singing "If a body catch a body coming through the rye." It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more. PAGE NUMBER: 115 SUBTOPIC: desire to be catcher in the rye

2) QUOTE: You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He Was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. PAGE NUMBER:38 SUBTOPIC:Views on Allie

3) QUOTE: Anway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. PAGE NUMBER: 173 SUBTOPIC: Desire to be catcher in the rye

4) QUOTE: You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life. She's reall y smart, I mean she's had all A's ever since she started school. PAGE NUMBER: 67 SUBTOPIC: views on Phoebe

5) QUOTE: I couldn't stand it. I know it's only his body and all that's in the cemetery, and his oul's in Heaven and all that crap, but I couldn't stand it anyway. I just wish he wasn't there. You didn't know him. If you'd known him, you'd know what I mean. It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like comming out. PAGE NUMBER:156 SUBTOPIC:Views on Allie

6) QUOTE: Somebody'd written "Fuck you" on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and wonder what the hell it meant.... PAGE NUMBER: 201 SUBTOPIC: Views on Phoebe

7) QUOTE: I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though was that he had peoms written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. PAGE NUMBER:38 SUBTOPIC: Views on Allie

8) QUOTE: I broke all the goddam windows with my fist. But I hardly didn't even know what I was doing and you didn't know Allie PAGE NUMBER: 39 SUBTOPIC: Views on Allie

9) QUOTE: Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make beileve I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, "Allie, don't let me disapear. Allie, don't let me disapear. Allie, don't let me disapear. Allie, don't let me disapear. Please, Allie." And then when I'd reach the other side of the street without disappearing, I'd //thank// him. PAGE NUMBER: 198 SUBTOPIC: Views of Allie

10) QUOTE: 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 godamn horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids id, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, andnot say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them. PAGE NUMBER:211 SUBTOPIC: Desire to be catcher in the rye

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

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)

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)

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) 2) 3)

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)

Paragraph about Phoebe Brainstorm


 * 1) Holden thinks Phoebe has more common sense than him and is smarter. Put quote here where he says Phoebe is smart. Also, mention how she writes stories—and hers are OK, even though he thinks a lot of stories are phony. This shows an immature and sentimental view because: this is an immature belief, because Holden assumes that kids are “smarter” because they are innocent and pure. But we know this isn’t really true.
 * 2) Quote: You should see her. You never saw a little kid so pretty and smart in your whole life. She's really smart, I mean she's had all A's ever since she started school.

2. Thinks she is perfect He calls everyone else phony, but Phoebe is perfect in every way. Give quote:

3.Phoebe as a mother figure-his own mom is unstable A. Add quotes: In this climactic scene Phoebe plays a double role. About Allie's age when he died, she is the sister disappointed in the failures of her idealized brother, but she is also an under aged, undersized mother figure. Firmly but affectionately Phoebe presses Holden to explain why he has been expelled. He pours forth all his phony rationalizations, most of which begin and end with something or somebody "depressing" him. When Phoebe suggests that the fault may be his--"You don't like anything that's happening"--he is "even more depressed."

4. Holden thinks he can “save” Phoebe from “falling” (talk here about catcher in the rye) But at end of book, he changes his mind. Carousel scene. Add q: She is his little sister Phoebe whom he must protect at all costs from the phantoms of lust, hypocrisy, conceit and fear                all of the attributes which Holden sees in society.... So at the end ... Holden delights in circles  a comforting, bounded figure which yet connotes hopelessness. He breaks down as he watches his beloved little Phoebe going round and round on a carousel; she is so // damned // happy. Somebody'd written "Fuck you" on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and wonder what the hell it meant....

Paragraph about Allie Start by giving basic info about Allie. Q-I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though was that he had peoms written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere

Quotes that show this
 * 1) Allie is perfect-

The night after Allie's death Holden slept in the garage and broke "all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by the time, and I couldn't do it. It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie." The act may have been "stupid"--which is one of his pet words to denigrate himself as well as others--but it also reflects his uncontrollable anger, at himself for wishing Allie dead and at his brother for leaving him alone and burdened with feelings of guilt. Similarly, the attack on the station wagon may be seen as his way of getting even with a father who was powerless either to save Allie or to understand Holden. Because he was hospitalized, he was unable to attend the funeral, to witness the completion of the life process, but by injuring himself he received the attention and sympathy which were denied him during Allie's illness. His actions here as elsewhere are inconsistent and ambivalent, but always comprehensible in terms of his reaction to the loss of Allie.

You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class

Q-  Life stopped for Holden on July 18, 1946, the day his brother died of leukemia. Holden was then thirteen, and four years later--the time of the narrative--he is emotionally still at the same age, although he has matured into a gangly six-foot adolescent. Allie's death occurred when Holden was thirteen, the age when puberty begins. On Allie's side of the border it is still childhood, a time when self and world seem, at least in memory, to exist in an enchanted unity. The painful rupture of this sense of self-completion by adolescent self-consciousness and self-doubt is figured in Holden's ritual smashing of the garage window panes at the news of Allie's death. The fact that Holden breaks his own hand in the act--a kind of punitive self-sacrifice--only underscores its symbolic relation to the greater self-mutilation which the loss of childhood signifies for him I couldn't stand it. I know it's only his body and all that's in the cemetery, and his oul's in Heaven and all that crap, but I couldn't stand it anyway. I just wish he wasn't there. You didn't know him. If you'd known him, you'd know what I mean. It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
 * 1) He doesn’t realize that Allie stayed innocent only because he never got a chance to be an adult.
 * 1) Uses Allie as an escape from reality. He died at age 13, in a way. He can’t face life as it is now. (talk about his problems).

Q- The family member with the greatest need of being caught, arguably, is Allie Caulfield (because of his fatal leukemia), and Allie must be seen as the primary inspiration for Holden's dream of becoming a catcher in the rye. However, Holden takes on so many of Allie's characteristics that he emerges as possessing a desire to become Allie (the fallen) which infuses and redefines his desire to be a catcher in the rye. Body Paragraph #3: desire to be catcher in the rye is an immature belief because he can’t save everybody. Realizes this at end. Plus, are children really perfect and innocent???? Holden truly cares about people and his fellow man in a world that is ugly and corrupt. Start with how Holden says he can’t think of a future career, except for this one. He wants to do this b/c he feels like he let Allie down—so he could now save other children. First, talk about just hearing that kid sing the song makes him happy: (quote). He gets song wrong. Poem by Robert Burns and it is actually not innocent—it is sexual. So, Holden gets it wrong. Quote: Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. Just explain what Holden wants to do for children. HOWEVER, he changes mind at end. Carousel scene. 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 godamn horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. The thing with kids id, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, andnot say anything. If they fall off, t hey fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.
 * 1) Being a catcher in the rye to save Allie-

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

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)

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)

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

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