I began reading on writing and I've gotten to chapter 18. In his book, most his chapters are really short, but the cover a lot. So far I read about how he was in a rock and roll band full of writers and how from one of the members he got the idea of writing this book. He talks about his childhood, about his mother, brother, and the multiple places that he lived as a kid. It also talks about his early times as writer and how he was rejected a lot but his stories got better and better.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Post 6
"Catcher in the Rye" By: J.D. Salinger-
I am in the part of the book where Holden is just roaming around this city and just doing what he said he was doing. Going to stay in a hotel in New York til he is suppose to go back home. He still has urges to speak to Jane, an old friend of his, but then again he remembers if he calls her mom will probably pick up. Holden is also still trying to figure out where the ducks go to when the lake freezes over and he asked two of his cab drivers if they knew, both of course, did not know. During his whole stay it seems like he's always depressed and not in the mood. One chapter he was in his hotel room and he called up an old friends' girl that he was trying to get a drink with. In another chapter he was in a bar trying to talk these three girls that weren't very interested. Most of his ideas of trying to keep himself busy didn't seem to work.
I am in the part of the book where Holden is just roaming around this city and just doing what he said he was doing. Going to stay in a hotel in New York til he is suppose to go back home. He still has urges to speak to Jane, an old friend of his, but then again he remembers if he calls her mom will probably pick up. Holden is also still trying to figure out where the ducks go to when the lake freezes over and he asked two of his cab drivers if they knew, both of course, did not know. During his whole stay it seems like he's always depressed and not in the mood. One chapter he was in his hotel room and he called up an old friends' girl that he was trying to get a drink with. In another chapter he was in a bar trying to talk these three girls that weren't very interested. Most of his ideas of trying to keep himself busy didn't seem to work.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Post 5
Literature Textbook:
I did unit 4 and it took me a little bit longer to finish because I decided to make my annotions a little bit longer so I had some more notes to look back on. I noticed that a lot of the hard times and great times in history are the times most writers emerged because they wanted to describe how life was going and the different things going on. An example was the transcontinental railroad that was built that cause many settlers to travel, the industry to boom, and writing influences to expand. Also the developments of regionalism and naturalism. Mark Tawin seemed very important in this time of history of writing. He wrote the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" which was the first book to be written in "American";he faced a lot of critism.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Post 4
"The Catcher in the Rye" By:J.D. Salinger-
I have gotten to the part of the book when Holden decides to leave Pency instead of waiting for the day he's suppose to go because he got kicked out. On the train he takes to New York he meets one of his classmate's mothers. Holden strikes up a conversation with her and tells her all this good stuff about her son. When Holden finally reaches New York he stays at a hotel. While he is at the hotel he gets an urge to call his sister,Phoebe. He describes her as a very smart kid just like his little brother Allie. Just from reading the descriptions he gives his siblings he thinks all his other siblings are really great while he's like the "defect child" of the family.
Post 3
Liteature Textbook:
Today I did about three units. I had a little bit of trouble getting started because I wasn't so sure what to annotate. Most of the history I remembered from my history class and so i annotated about important facts and my thoughts. So far from reading the history of literature it has shown me new writers and poets. I find Emily Dickinson very interesting. I would really consider searching up her works. In the textbook she is compared to Walt Whitman. He also seems interesting, he follows most of the romanticism traits that was very common at the time but Dickson didnt as much. I read that her tone in her poems seemed very "abrupt" and "unemotional."
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Post 2
I haven't been posting much so I'm changing my post titles to just "post" and the number post it is. I'm trying to blog more often so I wont have trouble keeping track how many entries I've done. I'm trying to still figure out a better way of formatting my progress of my work. I'm going to try dividing this post into two or three to describe my progress so it's easier to read. I won't add in my thoughts in this one so I won't make it too long.
"The Catcher in the Rye" By: J.D. Salinger-
So far in the novel I've gotten to the part where Holden has to write a english composition for Stradlater(his roommate). The english composition had to be about describing something, a room or an area, something very descriptive. Holden decided to write about his younger brother,Allie's baseball mitt. It was a mitt that was made for left-handed people and it had poems written in green ink all over it. Allie wrote the poems everywhere so he had something to read while he was in the out field doing nothing. As I read on a little bit more Holden revealed Allie had died of leukemia.
"The Catcher in the Rye" By: J.D. Salinger-
So far in the novel I've gotten to the part where Holden has to write a english composition for Stradlater(his roommate). The english composition had to be about describing something, a room or an area, something very descriptive. Holden decided to write about his younger brother,Allie's baseball mitt. It was a mitt that was made for left-handed people and it had poems written in green ink all over it. Allie wrote the poems everywhere so he had something to read while he was in the out field doing nothing. As I read on a little bit more Holden revealed Allie had died of leukemia.
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