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.