About the Commentary Planning

a) I do not care whether or not I do or do not share my outline with anybody else.

b) I think Mr. Doubt is doing this because people could correct each other when they look at other people's plans and also Mr. Doubt can't look at all of them in a short amount of time so in order to save some time, he might do this activity.

c) I am not dying to use the outline to write an essay however, I would like to use my outline to write a commentary because the outline makes the commentary more organized and also I have all my ideas on the outline.

Chapter 17 Holden

To summarize, in chapter 17, Holden was waiting at the waiting place and saw girls and was observing them. Then 10 minutes after the meeting time, Sally came and they went to see 'The Lunts'. After watching 'The Lunts' Sally met someone that she knew and Holden wasn't happy about this. Then, they went to ice-skate. After ice-skating, they sat down and Holden started saying that he is sick of this city life and wants to go to the country side. Sally says that they are two young and this conversation led to an argument and the date ended.

In this chapter, we can realize that Holden is jealous that all the nice looking girls are with all the 'phoney guys' also this is once more emphasizing that Holden really like girls a lot. Also after watching 'The Lunts', Sally meets a person that she knows. Holden is jealous about this because it seemed like the phoney guy was going to ruin his date. In pg 114, Holden said "Why don't you go on over and give him a big soul kiss, if you know him? He'll enjoy it" In addition to being jealous of phoney guys, Holden doesn't like the life in the city and was fed up with the school life that he had. Holden said, "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? I mean do you like school, and all that stuff?"

Duck motif paragraph

Ducks are a motif representing loneliness. Holden in the book Catcher in the Rye mentions about the ducks to a taxi driver called Horwitz when he was going to a bar that Ernie owned. Holden might have been worried about the ducks because he could have thought that the ducks are similar to him in a way because the ducks can't stay in one place the whole time because of the season changing as time pasts. Like the ducks, Holden couldn't stay in one school because he was keep on flunking so many subjects and just decided to give up. A quote which represents how Holden has interest in the ducks is when Holden said, "The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I mean does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves- go south or something?" This quote shows that Holden is wondering where the ducks go and might have interest in them because they might feel like they have no place to settle like Holden at that point of the book.

Summary of David Lodge’s ‘Skaz’

To start off the writing there is a part of the book ‘Catcher in the Rye’. David Lodge starts with defining ‘skaz’ which is the sound of the language. Skaz comes from jazz and scat. The writer J.D Salinger uses first person narration meaning ‘I’ am Holden and you as the reader of this book. In the book ‘Catcher in the Rye’ the writer uses colloquial speech (conversation-like speech) so it sounds like the reader is talking in real. Although it sounds like colloquial speech, really it is just created and in normal life, a person wouldn’t use this kind of speech that J.D Salinger used. David Lodge made a comparison with this book and an American literature tradition called the ‘Huckleberry Finn’ written by Mark Twain. Lodge mentioned that Holden Caulfield is a descendent of Huck Finn but Holden is in a situation where he is more educated and sophisticated and affluent (his father).

After analyzing the book as a whole (how they speak, narration, etc) Lodge goes on by talking about Holden’s narrative style. The reason why Holden’s narrative style sounds so colloquial and teenager-like is because it is easy enough to indentify. It is easy to understand the text because Salinger put repetition; which is especially slang/informal words such as ‘phoney’, ‘killed me’, and ’old’. Also J.D Salinger put hyperbole which is simply exaggeration. Some examples could be ‘smoking himself to death’. Also sentences are uncomplicated and all the sentences are lacking finite verbs. There are lots of grammatical mistakes throughout the piece to show that a teenager is speaking. There are invariably in his characters.

Summary of Chapter 7 and 8

Chapter 7:

 

After fighting with Stradlater, Holden goes to Ackley's room and annoys him and talks to him because he felt lonely and he wanted someone to talk to. After talking with Ackley, Holden just decides to go to New York and go into a hotel because he felt lonely in Pencey and he didn’t feel like staying in Pencey. So, Holden just shouts "Sleep tight, ya morons" and walks out of Pencey. The reason he doesn't go back in his home is because his parents doesn't know he was kicked out of school.

 

Chapter 8:

 

Holden thought it wasn't a good time to take a cab so he just walks to the train station to go to his destination. He gets on the train and though the train was pretty much empty, some woman sits next to him. The woman recognizes that Holden goes to Pencey and Holden figures out that it is the mother of Ernest Morrow. He lies to her saying that his name is Rudolf Schmidt and lies about Ernest how he is doing in school and last of all lies that he has a tumor in his brain so he is on his way for the operation. Then Morrow's mother gets off the train saying good luck on the operation.