Sunday, September 21, 2008

Blog it up

1.Catcher In The Rye

By J. D. Salinger

This is the 5th time I have read the book “Catcher In the Rye”. This book is about a young man named Holden Caulfield who is talking about the days he spends in New York following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, it seems like he is telling his story while being evaluated at a mental facility. Holden's brother Allies’s death seemed to affect his life and the way he thinks, he died of leukemia three years before. In the book Holden keeps bringing up the rye where he wants to stand and catch children from falling in, and carries around his brother’s old baseball glove that Allie used to write poems in with green ink. I agree with all of the thesis’s about this book, it is a challenging book to understand but once you read it through and go back to look at what Salinger is really trying to write about. It holds a lot of meaning. I love this book.



2.

Hallie

-Loyal to the Nicaraguans

-Hoping for the war to be over in Nicaragua

-Loves her family

-Open to the way the Nicaraguans live

-She has sympathy on the people of Nicaragua

-She goes off alone with out Codi

-She goes to Nicaragua to help the people


Codi

-She is trying to save grace from the mining pollution

-Doesn’t tell anyone about the baby

-Lost the baby

-Loyal to her family

-Doesn’t trust people right away

-Loves her family


9 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I think we read Catcher in the Rye next year so then you will have read it 6 times!! As you can see, I am an excellent mathematician ;).

SARAH said...

maddie you have really good traits for the characters! and i'm gonna snipe your idea of a playlist hope you dont mind :)

m-keller said...

sweet map thing where did you do that.
your book sounds really good i might have to read it .

Cori said...

how do you do that map thing!

ben b said...

cool map but i didnt really like catcher in the rye

alex said...

That's what I wrote about! I love that book so much.

Erin said...

Hey Maddie. My name is Erin and I'm a student at the U of M. I am working on my teaching license and my masters in English Education. For a class that I am taking we have been asked to check out your class blogs. I like your page a lot. I have a blog up and running too but it's not as personalized as yours is, I should ask you for some pointers. I'm so glad to hear that you like Catcher in the Rye. It seems that people either love or hate this book. I also love it. What do you think of the ending? I was also wondering what you think about working on a blog as a class assignment? Anyhow, I'll be checking out your page every now and then, feel free to write back to me or check out my blog.

Erin said...

Hey Maddie,

I really like your double bubble map for this post. Like some of the other comments I have the same..how did you do that on here? It's really cool! I was wondering, what is your thought on graphic organizers such as this? Do you like them? Do they help, or are they simply worksheets/time fillers for you as a student? It looks like this map helped you find some good traits and characteristics. I know you've read Catcher a lot, but do you find anything new or different each time you read it? I have also read it a few times, and the first time I read it I hated it. I have since found things I didn't really get before, and the book has created new meaning for me in lots of different ways. My advice, stick with it...try reading it from different perspectives, you might be surprised at what you find!