In class today: last two Gatsby performances. Homework: the same as was assigned on Tuesday. Make sure you have read through chapter 14, approximately page 104 in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Expect a reading fact test on Monday. Note characters: Holden, Ackley, Spenser, Stadletter, Phoebe...Lots of symbols in the text help to explain the protagonist: hunting cap, ducks in winter, carousel (comes along later), even the protagonist / narrator's surname.
Vocabulary 14 is due Tuesday. If you used the class time yesterday, you should be almost finished.
The red hat helps him feel safe whenever he has it like a blanket and a teddy bear helps little children feel safer when they have it with them. It also symbolizes his uniqueness and defiance to conformity. Holden wears the hat for the same reason he hates the movies and flunks out of school: he doesn’t want to just “fit-in”t my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had
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