Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This is a picture of a mental institution. Holden was narrating from a psychiatric facilitary .

Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This represents the women in that time period . Women were not treated as well as the women now in modern times.

Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This represents the Pennsylvania boarding school that Holden went to. Holden is being expelled from the school and these are his last days at the school.

Illustrator

This is what I think of when Holden talked about his time at the hotel with a prostitute, in New York at a hotel he went to nothing happened but he just wanted to get away.

Moses Allred- researcher

Holdens brother Allie died of leukemia, this destroyed Holden. It made the world seem like a cruel place, and it put him in a very dark place. Cancer in the 1940's setting was a death sentence, the patients were given brutal treatments(if the disease was even noticed). Cancer was not as easy to detect, and there was not nearly as much effort given to assisting as now. The helplessness of the situation drove Holden to the extremes.

Moses Allred- researcher

Holden consistently has issues with a control of anger, inevitably leading to violence. Especially around the 1950's organized crime was picking up, overall that would cause a general increase in violence. Crime was not always so rapid, it only increased over the fifty years. It will only continue to gradually enhance though. His viewing of destructive ways brought him to fear, until he realized that everyone has to struggle through worldly issues.

Moses Allred- researcher

During the time period that the novel takes place in, respect towards women is at a very low level. It reflects the characters interactions, to when he is dealing with a girlfriend, or even a prostitute. The mother housekeeper role was still prominent and it shows in the novel, Holdens experiences with the opposite gender were crippled (he didn't really care for most people though). Although it was fairly common for men to behave this way towards women.

Moses Allred- researcher

I noticed that the time period had a great effect on the protagonist, during the late 1940's and the early 1950's teenagers were more repressed than now. It was not nearly as common for a young adult to feel these types of emotions, much less express them so fluently. The characters emotions are rather common, its just that the resources to help him were not developed fully. This book was so popular and so controversial at the same time because during this time period it was a topic that was not discussed, but it resonated true in so many other young adults.

Sara Touzard - Questionnare

1) Which family member of Holden's sends him birthday money four times a year?



2) Why does Holden leave Pency early?



3) What name does he call himself?



4) What color hair does Holden have?

Lauren Block- vocab

1. Precision
- The state or quality of being precise.
- Accuracy; exactness.
- Mechanical or scientific exactness.

Sentence from book: "The audience applaud like mad. and some guy behind me kept saying to his wife, "You know what that is? That's precision." He killed me."

2. Sacrilegious
- Pertaining or involving sacrilege.
- Guilty of sacrilege.
- Grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred.
- Having committed sacrilege.

Sentence from book: "Sally said I was sacrilegious atheist. I probably am.

3. Aristocratic
- A member of a ruling class or of the nobility.
- A person having the tastes, manners, or other characteristics of aristocracy.
- A person who advocates government by aristocracy.
- One considered the best of it's kind.

Sentence from book: "He kept telling her she had aristocratic hands."

4. Boisterous
-Rough and noisy.
- Rough and stormy.
- Rough, and massive.
- Loud, noisy, and lacking in restraint or discipline.

Sentence from book: "The one thing I did, though, I was careful as hell not to get boisterous or anything."

5. Stimulated
- To rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure.
- To invigorate (a person) by a food or beverage containing a stimulant, as coffee, tea, or alcohol liquor.

Sentence from book: "You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know."

Lauren Block- vocab.

1. Matinee
- An entertainment, esp a dramatic or musical performance, held in the day time, usually in the afternoon.

Sentence from book: "For a second, I was tempted to tell her to forget about the matinee."

2. Inferiority
- Lower in station, rank, degree, or grade.
- Lower in place or position ; close to the bottom or base.
- Of comparatively low grade; poor in quality; substandard.
- less important, valuable, or worthy.
- A condition or state of being or having a sense of being inferior or inadequate especially with respects to one's apparent equals or to the world at large.

Sentence from book: "What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddamn inferiority complex about it.

3. Bourgeois
- A member of the middle class.
- A person who's political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
- A shopkeeper or merchant.
- Belonging to, characteristic of, the middle class.

Sentence from book: "He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois.

4. Lastex
- A brand of yarn made from a core of latex rubber covered with fabric strands.
- A trademark used for a yarn having a core of elastic rubber wound with rayon, nylon, silk, or cotton threads.

Sentence from book: "He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive.

Sara Touzard- Questionnaire

pages 1-39



1) What type of person is Holden?

2)Why was Holden standing at the top of Thomsen Hill?

3)What kind of teacher do you think Mr. Spencer is?

4)What is the relationship between Holden and Stadlater?

5)What does Stadlater borrow from Holden to go on his date?

6)Who is Ackley?

7)How does Holden know Jane Gallagher?

Lauren Block- vocabulary

1. Unscrupulous
-Conscienceless, unprincipled
-Devoid of scruples; oblivious to or contemptuous of what is right or honorable.

Sentence from book: "I'd double-dated with that bastard a couple of times, and I know what I'm talking about. He was unscrupulous. He really was.

2. Morgue
- A place in which bodies are kept esp. the bodies of victims o violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- A reference file of old clippings, mats, books, etc., in a newspaper office.
- The room containing such a reference file.
- Any place, as a room or a file, where records, information, or objects are kept for unexpected but possible future use.
- Such records, information, or objects.

Sentence from book: "Where the hell is everybody? It's like a goddamn morgue around here."

3. Pacifist
- A person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- A person who's personal belief in pacifism causes him or her to refuse being drafted into military service.
- Belief that disputes between nations should and can be settled peacefully.
- Opposition to war or violence as a means of resolving disputes.
- Such opposition demonstrated by refusal to participate in military action.

Sentence from book: "I'm not too tough. I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth."

4. Convent
- A community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
- A society of association of Monks, friars, or nuns; now usually used as a society of nuns.
- the buildings or building occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.
- Obsolete, assembly; meeting.

Sentence from book: "While I was eating my eggs , these two nuns with suitcases and all- I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train- came in and sat down next to me at the counter."

Lauren Block- Vocabulary

pages 1-39
1. Compulsory- Required; mandatory; obligatory.
- Using compulsion; compelling; constraining
- something, as an athletic feat, that must be performed or completed as part of a
contest or competition.

Sentence from book: "He didn't say anything then, but the next night he made us have compulsory study hall in the academic building and he came up and made a speech.

2. Illiterate- Unable to read or write.
- Having or demonstrating very little or no education.
- Showing lack of culture ecspecially in language and literature.
- displaying a marked lack of knowledge in a particular field.

Sentence from book: "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

3. Exhibitionist-A person who behaves in ways intended at attract attention or display his or her
powers, personality, etc.
-The act or practice of deliberately behaving so as to attract attention.

Sentence from book: "All I need's an audience. I'm an exhibitionist. 'I'm the goddamn Governor's son,' I said. I was knocking myself out. Tap dancing all over the place."

4. Halitosis- A condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath.
- The condition of having foul smelling breath.

Sentence from book: "That guy had just about everything. Sinus trouble, pimples, lousy teeth, halitosis, crumby fingernails."