From where I left
off last week Holden and Stradlater were talking in the bathroom because
Stradlater is getting ready for a date. While they are talking Stradlater
asks Holden to write an English composition for him, because his date
doesn't give him time to do it. When Holden asks who his date is he realizes
that it is the same girl he has strong feelings for, her name is Jane. Holden
isn't very pleased that Stradlater is taking Jane on a date. Before Stradlater
left to go on the date he borrowed Holden's hounds-tooth jacket. All Holden can
think about when Stradlater leaves are Jane and Stradlater going on this date.
I think that if Stradlater and Holden are good friends Stradlater should know
that Holden likes this girl and he shouldn't be taking her on a date for that
reason. But since Holden didn't say anything about it Stradlater went off
anyway.
After supper Holden
got into a snowball fight with some other Pencey boys. Then Holden and a friend
decide to go into town to see a movie, even though Holden hates movies. He went
with Mal and Ackley. When they get there Mal and Ackley inform Holden that they
have already seen the film, so instead the boys play some pinball and head back
to Pencey. When they get back Mal goes off to do his own thing and Ackley is
being bothersome like always to Holden. In order to get Ackley to leave Holden
began working on the English assignment for Stradlater. I don't think
Holden should do Stradlater's assignment for him. Holden barely even does his
own work. I think if Stradlater wants to be successful that he should do his
work by himself. Holden could be trying to get his grades up instead of doing
Stradlater's work but he chooses to do it for him anyway.
Stradlater told
Holden that the paper was supposed to be a simple description of a house or a
room or something similar. But Holden couldn't think of anything to say about a
house or a room so he wrote about a baseball glove that his brother,
Allie, used to use to copy poems onto with green ink. Several years before
Allie died of leukemia. He was two years younger than Holden; he says
Allie was the most intelligent member of his family. I’m glad that Holden
thinks that about his brother. He must have thought the world of him. I would
ever lose one of my brothers I’m not sure what I would do. Holden said that the
night his brother passed away he slept in the garage and broke all of the
windows with his bare hands.
This book so far is
good but I sort of have mixed feelings about the Holden because of some of his behaviors
in school. I feel like he would do something for someone else to get a good
grade but his don’t matter to him. If I was him I would try harder for myself
instead of others.
I think that Holden has had a hard life. How old is he? I would be very mad at my friend too if I knew they were going on a date with someone I liked. But it sounds like he is one of those guys who doesn’t want to say what is on his mind because he is afraid it will hurt someone. How old was his brother when he died and why did he copy poems onto a baseball glove? Does the Jane know that Holden likes her or is she just completely clueless about the world around her?
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