Blog Post #5

The significance of the title of Catcher in the Rye is mainly when Holden keeps talking about the glove that he keeps with him and how he misses his brother, who passed away earlier in his life, and how his favorite thing to do when they were younger was to play ball together. It also has to do with his little sister Phoebe because she is the age that Allie was when he passed away, which makes Holden hold onto her and love her as a younger sibling all the more. Also, in the book, it said that Holden had kept the glove with him when he was in college and when he was writing the paper for his roommate, he had gotten off topic and started writing about how he used to play catch with Allie and how Allie wrote in the glove.

Blog Post #4

The characters from the movie "The Dead Poets Society" is similar and different to Holden Caulfield in many ways. Neil, who was the actor and ended killing himself, is not like Holden because Holden hated acting and the whole idea of it. Charlie is a lot like Holden because Charlie is a rebel just like Caulfield. Todd is the shy character in the movie, which is sort of like Holden, that is, when he has his shy moments. Knox is the one who keeps chasing after a girl in the movie. This is very similar to Holden because all Holden thinks about is his friend Jane, who his roommate actually ended up going out with.

Blog Post #3

Some of the lessons that Mr. Keating is teaching his students about life is ceasing the day or making the most of your life. How this is different from what Holden was told about "playing by the rules" was that playing by the rules didn't allow yourself to do anything you wanted to do in life, but ceasing the day or making the most of your life says pretty much that you should pretty much throw away the rules and do what you want in life.

Blog Post # 2

I don't agree with with Mr. Spencer's statement which is that life is a game that one must play according to the rules because in life, you have to make your own rules in order to survive. At the same time though, it is like a game because when it comes to a certain laws in a place that you live, you have to abide by those rules.

Blog Post #1

Seymour and the bananafish are similar to each other because in the story, Seymour says that in the beginning, the fish looks normal, but when the fish go into a hole and eat too much, they are not able to get out. The similarity between this and Seymour is that Seymour was fine before he went to war, but when he came back he was never the same and was never able to get out of that "hole". Another way they are similar is when the bananafish dies since he can't get out of the hole, which is the same when at the end of story, Seymour kills himself because he can't get out of his "hole".