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.