Cinquian Poems

NOVEMBER NIGHT

Listen...

With faint dry sound,

Like steps of passing ghosts,

The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees

And fall. 

By: Adelaide Crapsey

Release

With swift

Great sweep of her

Magnificent arm my pain

Clanged back the doors that shut my soul

From life.

By: Adelaide Crapsey

Chapter 24 The conversation with Mr. Antolini

In chapter 24 Mr. Antolini lectures Holden on how important and academic education is, if an adult were to lecture me on the importance of getting a good education I would have reacted different than Holden. I probably would just ignore the person who was talking to me, even if it was important I wouldn't really change my lifestyle I would just keep going to school because I know that education is important. When my parents talk to me about trying my best in school I just tell them I do, and then walk away because I think that talking about school is extremely boring. 

Chapter 20- Diseases

In the beginning of chapter 20 Holden is in a bar and pretends that there is a bullet in his guts, later on he is freezing cold in Central Park and thinks that he is going to catch Pneumonia. Holden acts like there is a bullet in his guts because he does that kind of stupid buisness when he is drunk. In Holden's words "I kept putting my hand under my jacket, on my stomach and all to keep the blood from dripping all over the place."Holden believes that he is going to catch pneumonia because his hair is wet and he is so cold he thinks he is going to die. "Boy I was still shivering like a bastard, and the back of my hair, even though I had my hunting hat on, was sort of full of hunks of ice." This shows just how much pain Holden was in. I think that he pictured himself catching pneumonia because he actually thought he was going to die and he was wondering what it would be like. 

The Wicker Bar

Although Holden sees a lot of faults in Luce, Holden doesn't want to see him go because he is very lonely. Holden enjoys having company and Luce seems to know a lot about sex which is a subject that interests Holden. Holden doesn't have much to do in New York and having someone to talk to, occupies him. Luce is very intellectual, which Holden likes. 

Why does Holden identify with Mercutio?

Holden identifies with Mercutio because in the story Holden talks about luggage and it bothers him when his roommate doesn't have an equal quality of luggage, in Romeo and Juliet Mercutio doesn't like how Tybalt shows off his material possessions. This is one similarity that Mercutio and Holden have, but Mercutio is also always ready for a fight, which Holden can definitely identify with. 

Poems

Haiku

 Spiked onto the floor

Dug and recovered quickly

Soars over the net

 Acrostic

Boisterously bouncing of players

Actively passed and set

Loudly spiked across the court

Leading each play 

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed! 

His underwear is hanging on the lamp.

His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,

And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.

His workbook is wedged in the window,

His sweater's been thrown on the floor.

His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,

And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.

His books are all jammed in the closet,

His vest has been left in the hall.

A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,

And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!

Donald or Robert or Willie or--

Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,

I knew it looked familiar!

The Great Way

By: The Wu Men

The Great Way has no gate;

there are a thousand paths to it.

If you pass through the barrier,

you walk the universe alone.

object

My object is orange and white. It is round and smells really bad like old plastic. It feels like a leathery plastic and it is very squishy. 

Mark David Chapman

In the scene of the shooting there was confusion and bewilderedness John Lennon was carried out by two police men and brought to the nearest hospital. The behavior that Chapman showed before he murdered was that he was signing John Lennon's name instead of his own on papers and he was also suicidal. Chapman might have felt a connection with Holden because chapman left home when he was 14 years old, and Holden had also left at an early age because he went to boarding school. He might have also felt a connection because Holden didn't really fit in or have a million friends, and Chapman also probably did not have an easy childhood. In the text it says that after Chapman shot John Lennon he took out Catcher in the Rye and started reading. I found this extremely weird because after shooting someone he was relaxed enough to read a book. 

Favorite quote Pg. 8 Paragraph 4

"Life is a game boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."

So far, this is my favorite quote because while reading this you can tell that Mr. Spencer wants him to understand life's not a joke. I think this quote shows that Mr. Spencer really actually cares about him and wants him to succeed in life. It relates to the book because Holden has already been kicked out of many schools, so I think Mr. Spencer is relating life to a game to try to get his point across. 

Why do you think Mr. Spencer is lecturing Holden, even though Holden was already kicked out?

Phony; Prethinking Catcher in the Rye

To be phony means to be fake, and to pretend to be someone you are not. I believe most adults are better at being phony than children because they have more experience and they know that they can pretend to be nice or kind, to get people to like them, when children do not really care what people think of them, so they just act like themselves. 

One experience I remember someone being phony to me was when I was when I was having a huge birthday party. Many people that I had never spoken to before started talking to me because they heard about my party.  

Epilogue- Blog 2

The events in Montana left a mark on how David perceived the deaths of Julian and Wesley, Julian died from a stroke, and Wesley got cancer.  Although there were significant reasons that these deaths occurred such as Wesley's diet and Julians cigar smoking, deep down David knew it was because of what happened in Montana over forty years before. David thought that they died because the secret they held, was eating away at them for years.  What had happened in Montana also change the way David perceived his memories of Marie. The adult David's favorite memory of Marie was in the autumn before the summer of 1948, when David  was playing football with Marie and Ronnie Tall Bear. This was the first time that David felt like he was part of a family, other than blood or birthright. David had always wanted that relationship with his dad, but he was always working, so he finally gets this relationship with Ronnie and Marie. 

The End of Part THREE =)

At the end of part three Wesley goes into the basement to take Frank and bring him to jail, we learned this because he said "David, I believe in this world people must pay for their crimes. It doesnt matter who you are, or who your relations are; if you do wrong you pay, I believe that, I have to." When Wesley gets down stairs, David hears him scream, David follows down the steps, only to find his father holding Uncle Frank who is bleeding to death on the floor. David quickly notices that his wrists are slit open, and by the looks of it, he could tell that they were cut many hours earlier.  The author sets this up to be very emotional for us, readers because, a few moments before  Wesley went to bring his brother to jail, he tells David a story, about when they were boys and how Frank would stand up for his younger brother and scare away the Blackfoot brothers. This showed the reader the good side of Uncle Frank making the next scene very heartbreaking to read.