catcher in the rye chapter 1-7 Questions and Answers 100% correct
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catcher in the rye chapter 1-7 Questions and Answers 100% correct
What does Holden say and do that reveals he pities Ackley?
he says his hygiene is terrible
How does Holden's diction in the passage about Allie denote grief? Look at the syntax - how Salinger puts sentences together - to giv...
catcher in the rye chapter 1-7 Questions
and Answers 100% correct
What does Holden say and do that reveals he pities Ackley? - answer he says his
hygiene is terrible
How does Holden's diction in the passage about Allie denote grief? Look at the syntax -
how Salinger puts sentences together - to give us clues about how he's feeling. -
answer Holden misses Allie and was very upset when he died.
What are the facts Holden tells us surrounding Allie's death? - answer He died from
leukemia in 1946 (which we can infer to be three years before the events taking place,
and four years before Holden's telling us this story)
What do we know about Allie? How is he similar/different than Holden? Why did Holden
love him so much? - answer He was intelligent and good-natured and had red hair—
the kind you could see from a mile away. He used to laugh so hard he'd fall off his chair.
How is Allie's death influencing Holden's behaviors and feelings? - answer He was
very upset the night he died. He is more serious now
Immediate Impact of Allie's Death on Holden? Long-term impact of Allie's death on
Holden (Imagine Holden in the future) - answer immediate- loss of childhood future-
Holden may be afraid of letting people in thinking he could lose them
Examining diction or syntax, what evidence do we have of Holden's feelings when
Stradlater returns from his date with Jane? What is he feeling and how do we know? -
answer Holden acts out, this shows that he's hurt and that he cares.
What does Stradlater say when he reads Holden's description about Allie's baseball
glove? How does Holden react? Why? - answer Stradlater says, "this is about a
baseball glove" and Holden reacts by tearing up the paper.
Why does Holden attack Stradlater? - answer Stradlater refuses to tell Holden about
the date, this frustrates Holden, so he attacks Stradlater.
Holden tells Stradlater, "That's the trouble with you morons. You never want to discuss
anything. That's the way you can always tell a moron. They never want to discuss
anything intelligent." What is ironic about this statement? - answer It makes Holden
seem like a hypocrite because he keeps things everything to himself.
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