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.