In the book Catcher in the Rye, the author demonstrates how individuals tend to see the “bad” in people without trying to understand what they really have in inside; throughout chapter 4, Holden describes his roommates skin-deeply, focusing on their outer flaws. For him, Ackley, a guy who lives the next door, is a person that just doesn’t brush his teeth and does not seem to have any friends. While Ackley comes to his room and talks to him, Holden doesn’t even bother looking up to his face, since he already knows his feelings towards him and judged him. He doesn’t give people chances to prove themselves. This is because he has a general thought of society in general, is full of phony and disgusting sub humans. The only one he has deep feelings for, is Jane Gallagher, a girl from her childhood. Since Holden thinks adulthood is a period where people get less innocent and transparent, he only likes Jane, since she is a symbol for youth, pureness and genuineness. Holden is a guy who is well aware of the realities, but doesn’t want to face them. He feels trapped between these two concepts, so he isolates himself from people.
Deniz Somuncuoğlu Ekin Fırat Evren Emir Kutay 10-E 156
Chapter 17 Throughout this chapter the main conflict is the struggle that he has while connecting and interacting with people. In the previous chapters, Holden kept his thoughts about phonies to himself but he had a emotional breakdown while talking to Sally, because he thought after spending a day, that she would understand. He told all of his thoughts about society to Sally because he thought that he had fall in love with Sally. That was because he is a teenager who is desperate for love like every other teenager. It seemed like after keeping so many thought to himself, when he finally finds a human being of his age, the words came out. But of course Sally didn’t understand because she is not a deep-thinking, complex character, compared to Holden. This chapter also talks about how letting go is not appreciated in the society. When Holden asks Sally to run away with him, she says “We just can’t.” without giving a reason. Holden gets angry, because he knows no one can give the reason to it. We see how Holden is a self-aware character here.
The Catcher In The Rye, Chapter:4- Yağmur Sarıteke Kerem Doğan Bora İlker Varol In this chapter the author narrates what Holden holds onto something and what happens when he does. In chapter 4 holden finds out that his roommate Stradlater has a date the match night, and it turns out his date was an important person for Holden. In the novel this is the first time Holden shows signs that he is holding on to something or he held onto something in the past and still remembers it. As well as the signs of him opening up his past, one of the most important things that happens in this chapter is Holden opens up his emotions to himself. Well one of the hardest things in the world is to stand up against ownselve, in this chapter Holden let’s his brick wall in his heart get destroyed by old memories with Jane Gallagher. He tells his roommate about how he used to play checkers with her and how she would keep all the kings to herself. Holden shows signs of how he can hold onto something however the biggest reason he cannot, is that he thinks people doesn’t care and will never, also people are not reliable and loyal.
Holden walks back to his hotel after leaving Ernie's. He is upset about being a coward but he also acknowledges the fact that he is insecure and afraid of violence. He thinks about the gloves that were stolen back at Pencey. When he arrives at the hotel, he takes the elevator and the elevator operator offers him a prostitute for 5 dollars. He accepts it only because he is really upset. While waiting, he thinks about his cowardliness and timidity. He thinks that his lack of courage is the reason he has never been with a woman. That's why he accepts the offer because he thinks he can comfort himself. As he was wondering, Sully, the prostitute arrives. She is a young woman. As she is getting undressed, Holden gets a little bit nervous and refuses to make love with her. She asks for 10 dollars but Holden gives him only five. She leaves the hotel with frustration. The cowardliness of Holden in front of Sully shows that he is still insecure about having a relationship with a woman and this shows that he is still afraid of some concepts even though he denies them. Sully represents the overall relationships that Holden has with woman. She is the thing he needs but also the thing that he fears the most. Also when Sully arrives, the only thing that is in his mind is Jane and he also thinks about her even when he is with Sully. She doesn't have emotional satisfaction that's why he is still uncomfortable with the prostitute.
Zeynep Tezel Çağla Öztürk Mert Karaydın Aslan Oral
Chapter 5 Commentary “The Catcher In The Rye” is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that uses Holden Caulfield, a sixteen years old problematic child, as the narrator-protagonist. At the beginning of the book, the protagonist Holden kicked out of school because of his low grades. We see that he has some problems in school and his family. According to us, the most interesting chapter was the chapter five because there were many imageries to support idea in the novel which is life and death. Also we encounter with many symbolic meanings that give chapter and verse to the live and death. Chapter five was the one of them. In chapter five Holden writing an essay for his room mate and when he can’t find anything to write ,which is descriptive he decided to write a novel about his brother death. That shows Holden’s childhood was a trauma. It shows to the reader again that Holden has many difficulties against to life and still he is trying to holding on something. So that chapter was very important to show imagery to death and show how Holden struggling against life.
Kutay Erenmemisoglu Ulas Bozdag Can Umut Ali Murat Ertizman
Chaper 10:
In the 10th chapter of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, it can be observed that the main protagonist Holden has deep and subconscious desires to grow up faster and move closer to the inevitable that is death. In this chapter Holden Caulfield goes into the “Lavender Room” where he believes that he will be able order alcohol and talk to older women due to his grey hair. While he spends time in the “Lavender Room”, the reader can clearly comprehend that Holden's high expectations and confidence start to fall apart due to not being able to drink and ladies making fun of him. As said before there are two main reasons to why the attention he gets doesn’t meet his high expectations. The first reason is because the waiter in the “Lavender Room” refuses to give him alcohol since he’s underaged. That being said, the reason why this disturbs him is because his expectations are actually over the roof when it comes to him looking like an adult and thinking that his grey hair would be enough to make him look mature while obviously it is not. The other reason for him being upset is also related to his age, but in a different sense. This time Holden gets disappointed from the lack of attention the ladies give him. He even feels humiliated because the lady that dances with him doesn’t even listen to her when he’s talking. This also makes him feel alone once again as he does before in chapter 9, while he was in the search of someone he could talk to. This chapter mainly talks about how obsessed Holden is with growing up, and him feeling lonely inside; with the absence of his brother Allie.
In the Catcher in the Rye, especially, chapter 9 the author illustrates a big physiological breakdown because of inner conflicts that our main character have. His observations strengthen his idea about the phoniness is all around. At the same time, he has a inner conflict. His immaturity and lack of moral values strictly appeared when he started to lie constantly. For example, Which gets us right into a little digression on sex. The woman across the hotel is really attractive. He could go for some water-squirting himself, come to think of it. In this part of the book Holden, our main character, notice about his sexual intensity. He realizes the hormones of sexuality and I thin he cant hold on to it also because we're getting the idea that Holden has some real issues with sex and cannot control them.
Throughout chapter 11, we see how lonely Holden is. Even though he likes to be alone he wants company in this specific chapter. Holden and Jane had so many memories and moments as it is told in chapter 11, they become very close and they share so many things. Because of their very close friendship, when Jane leaves Holden feels like he is dumped and alone. So we can say that the main reason of “loneliness” throughout this chapter is because of Jane. On top of everything., he never talks about himself. He talks about the “perverts” he can see from his room and since their light is out he decides to go out to see some people.
Burhan Sudekan Fatih Ülker Sercan Doğu Can Kocabıyık
Chapter 13 Analysis
When he goes to the hotel a guy in the elevator approaches him and asks him if he is interested in a little tail night. He lies about his age and because he was feeling depressed he agreed to the offer. When the girl came he became shy and just wanted to talk if then he didn’t pay the the throw the guy in the elevator beaten him up. This shows he has a crush on Jane and he is guided by his feelings towards her to get intimate with just anyone at this point but he can’t because he is nervous depressed and thinking about someone else. He also lies about his age and also makes up a false disease which shows that he is very insecure. He also talks about him being yellow which means that he wants to express his true feelings towards people but he can’t because he is shy and insecure. He also feels depressed about the people around him which makes him depressed as well. “I’m one of these very yellow guys.” (pg. 99) Holden wants to express himself but he can’t due to his shyness. “The more I thought about my gloves and my yellowness, the more depressed I got, and I decided, while I was walking and all, to stop off and have a drink somewhere.” (pg. 101) Holden becomes more shy and tries drink something to get out that mood and become brave.
The Novel “The Catcher In The Rye” written by J.D.Salinger, in chapter 6 J.D.Salinger analyzes the idea of Cynicism. It is a philosophical thought that reaches the happiness without doing anything. Also emphasizes the idea of Carpe Diem with lots of not caring. The ideology cynicism is about rejecting desires such as wealth, power, sex, fame etc. For Holden these are friends, school, sports. He does not need or want these things as the others. In chapter 6 Holden gets angry and start a fight with Stradlater. That means Holden doesn’t have self control. He gets angry easily. Earlier, we have review the chapter 1 and 2 in class. We have talked about the imageries and symbols; the name Holden comes from holding on. He has so many holding on problems and he can’t hold himself. In this chapter Stradlater want Holden to do his homework, and Holden did it. It means he is afraid of saying ‘no’. He doesn’t have self confident. And when they started to fight Holden attacks him but, Stradlater easily kicks him it’s shows the situation of Holden vs. Life. And his other roommate Ackley is so unhappy that Holden can’t keep calm. And in this chapter we understand that Holden has interests and he cares about girls. In opinion Holden’s acts are related with self protection from life. His attitude to people’s acts, to things with lots of emotions and also the main behavior of holding on.
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Feb. 14, 2017 – Chapter 4 Analysis
Zeynep Müslüanoğlu & Ece Avcı & Zeynep Özkaya & Yasemin Özkut
In the book Catcher in the Rye, the author demonstrates how individuals tend to see the “bad” in people without trying to understand what they really have in inside; throughout chapter 4, Holden describes his roommates skin-deeply, focusing on their outer flaws. For him, Ackley, a guy who lives the next door, is a person that just doesn’t brush his teeth and does not seem to have any friends. While Ackley comes to his room and talks to him, Holden doesn’t even bother looking up to his face, since he already knows his feelings towards him and judged him. He doesn’t give people chances to prove themselves. This is because he has a general thought of society in general, is full of phony and disgusting sub humans. The only one he has deep feelings for, is Jane Gallagher, a girl from her childhood. Since Holden thinks adulthood is a period where people get less innocent and transparent, he only likes Jane, since she is a symbol for youth, pureness and genuineness. Holden is a guy who is well aware of the realities, but doesn’t want to face them. He feels trapped between these two concepts, so he isolates himself from people.
Deniz Somuncuoğlu
Ekin Fırat Evren
Emir Kutay
10-E 156
Chapter 17
Throughout this chapter the main conflict is the struggle that he has while connecting and interacting with people. In the previous chapters, Holden kept his thoughts about phonies to himself but he had a emotional breakdown while talking to Sally, because he thought after spending a day, that she would understand. He told all of his thoughts about society to Sally because he thought that he had fall in love with Sally. That was because he is a teenager who is desperate for love like every other teenager. It seemed like after keeping so many thought to himself, when he finally finds a human being of his age, the words came out. But of course Sally didn’t understand because she is not a deep-thinking, complex character, compared to Holden. This chapter also talks about how letting go is not appreciated in the society. When Holden asks Sally to run away with him, she says “We just can’t.” without giving a reason. Holden gets angry, because he knows no one can give the reason to it. We see how Holden is a self-aware character here.
The Catcher In The Rye, Chapter:4-
Yağmur Sarıteke Kerem Doğan Bora İlker Varol
In this chapter the author narrates what Holden holds onto something and what happens when he does. In chapter 4 holden finds out that his roommate Stradlater has a date the match night, and it turns out his date was an important person for Holden. In the novel this is the first time Holden shows signs that he is holding on to something or he held onto something in the past and still remembers it. As well as the signs of him opening up his past, one of the most important things that happens in this chapter is Holden opens up his emotions to himself. Well one of the hardest things in the world is to stand up against ownselve, in this chapter Holden let’s his brick wall in his heart get destroyed by old memories with Jane Gallagher. He tells his roommate about how he used to play checkers with her and how she would keep all the kings to herself. Holden shows signs of how he can hold onto something however the biggest reason he cannot, is that he thinks people doesn’t care and will never, also people are not reliable and loyal.
the Catcher in the Rye Chapter 13 Commentary
Metehan Şahin - Alexandra Kozmidis - Renç Karaca
Holden walks back to his hotel after leaving Ernie's. He is upset about being a coward but he also acknowledges the fact that he is insecure and afraid of violence. He thinks about the gloves that were stolen back at Pencey. When he arrives at the hotel, he takes the elevator and the elevator operator offers him a prostitute for 5 dollars. He accepts it only because he is really upset. While waiting, he thinks about his cowardliness and timidity. He thinks that his lack of courage is the reason he has never been with a woman. That's why he accepts the offer because he thinks he can comfort himself. As he was wondering, Sully, the prostitute arrives. She is a young woman. As she is getting undressed, Holden gets a little bit nervous and refuses to make love with her. She asks for 10 dollars but Holden gives him only five. She leaves the hotel with frustration. The cowardliness of Holden in front of Sully shows that he is still insecure about having a relationship with a woman and this shows that he is still afraid of some concepts even though he denies them. Sully represents the overall relationships that Holden has with woman. She is the thing he needs but also the thing that he fears the most. Also when Sully arrives, the only thing that is in his mind is Jane and he also thinks about her even when he is with Sully. She doesn't have emotional satisfaction that's why he is still uncomfortable with the prostitute.
Zeynep Tezel
Çağla Öztürk
Mert Karaydın
Aslan Oral
Chapter 5 Commentary
“The Catcher In The Rye” is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that uses Holden Caulfield, a sixteen years old problematic child, as the narrator-protagonist. At the beginning of the book, the protagonist Holden kicked out of school because of his low grades. We see that he has some problems in school and his family. According to us, the most interesting chapter was the chapter five because there were many imageries to support idea in the novel which is life and death. Also we encounter with many symbolic meanings that give chapter and verse to the live and death. Chapter five was the one of them. In chapter five Holden writing an essay for his room mate and when he can’t find anything to write ,which is descriptive he decided to write a novel about his brother death. That shows Holden’s childhood was a trauma. It shows to the reader again that Holden has many difficulties against to life and still he is trying to holding on something. So that chapter was very important to show imagery to death and show how Holden struggling against life.
Kutay Erenmemisoglu
Ulas Bozdag
Can Umut
Ali Murat Ertizman
Chaper 10:
In the 10th chapter of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, it can be observed that the main protagonist Holden has deep and subconscious desires to grow up faster and move closer to the inevitable that is death. In this chapter Holden Caulfield goes into the “Lavender Room” where he believes that he will be able order alcohol and talk to older women due to his grey hair. While he spends time in the “Lavender Room”, the reader can clearly comprehend that Holden's high expectations and confidence start to fall apart due to not being able to drink and ladies making fun of him. As said before there are two main reasons to why the attention he gets doesn’t meet his high expectations.
The first reason is because the waiter in the “Lavender Room” refuses to give him alcohol since he’s underaged. That being said, the reason why this disturbs him is because his expectations are actually over the roof when it comes to him looking like an adult and thinking that his grey hair would be enough to make him look mature while obviously it is not.
The other reason for him being upset is also related to his age, but in a different sense. This time Holden gets disappointed from the lack of attention the ladies give him. He even feels humiliated because the lady that dances with him doesn’t even listen to her when he’s talking. This also makes him feel alone once again as he does before in chapter 9, while he was in the search of someone he could talk to. This chapter mainly talks about how obsessed Holden is with growing up, and him feeling lonely inside; with the absence of his brother Allie.
Evren Durmaz
Kaan Dinçer
Selina Denisenko
Öykü Tayfur
Chapter 9 Analysis
In the Catcher in the Rye, especially, chapter 9 the author illustrates a big physiological breakdown because of inner conflicts that our main character have. His observations strengthen his idea about the phoniness is all around. At the same time, he has a inner conflict. His immaturity and lack of moral values strictly appeared when he started to lie constantly. For example, Which gets us right into a little digression on sex. The woman across the hotel is really attractive. He could go for some water-squirting himself, come to think of it. In this part of the book Holden, our main character, notice about his sexual intensity. He realizes the hormones of sexuality and I thin he cant hold on to it also because we're getting the idea that Holden has some real issues with sex and cannot control them.
Alin Gürdikyan
Deniz Adalan
Su Yağmur Küçükakyüz
Chapter 11 Analysis
Throughout chapter 11, we see how lonely Holden is. Even though he likes to be alone he wants company in this specific chapter. Holden and Jane had so many memories and moments as it is told in chapter 11, they become very close and they share so many things. Because of their very close friendship, when Jane leaves Holden feels like he is dumped and alone. So we can say that the main reason of “loneliness” throughout this chapter is because of Jane. On top of everything., he never talks about himself. He talks about the “perverts” he can see from his room and since their light is out he decides to go out to see some people.
Burhan Sudekan
Fatih Ülker
Sercan Doğu
Can Kocabıyık
Chapter 13 Analysis
When he goes to the hotel a guy in the elevator approaches him and asks him if he is interested in a little tail night. He lies about his age and because he was feeling depressed he agreed to the offer. When the girl came he became shy and just wanted to talk if then he didn’t pay the the throw the guy in the elevator beaten him up. This shows he has a crush on Jane and he is guided by his feelings towards her to get intimate with just anyone at this point but he can’t because he is nervous depressed and thinking about someone else. He also lies about his age and also makes up a false disease which shows that he is very insecure. He also talks about him being yellow which means that he wants to express his true feelings towards people but he can’t because he is shy and insecure. He also feels depressed about the people around him which makes him depressed as well. “I’m one of these very yellow guys.” (pg. 99) Holden wants to express himself but he can’t due to his shyness. “The more I thought about my gloves and my yellowness, the more depressed I got, and I decided, while I was walking and all, to stop off and have a drink somewhere.” (pg. 101) Holden becomes more shy and tries drink something to get out that mood and become brave.
Selin Gurdikyan
Asya Özveren
Chapter 6 Analysis
The Novel “The Catcher In The Rye” written by J.D.Salinger, in chapter 6 J.D.Salinger analyzes the idea of Cynicism. It is a philosophical thought that reaches the happiness without doing anything. Also emphasizes the idea of Carpe Diem with lots of not caring. The ideology cynicism is about rejecting desires such as wealth, power, sex, fame etc. For Holden these are friends, school, sports. He does not need or want these things as the others. In chapter 6 Holden gets angry and start a fight with Stradlater. That means Holden doesn’t have self control. He gets angry easily. Earlier, we have review the chapter 1 and 2 in class. We have talked about the imageries and symbols; the name Holden comes from holding on. He has so many holding on problems and he can’t hold himself. In this chapter Stradlater want Holden to do his homework, and Holden did it. It means he is afraid of saying ‘no’. He doesn’t have self confident. And when they started to fight Holden attacks him but, Stradlater easily kicks him it’s shows the situation of Holden vs. Life. And his other roommate Ackley is so unhappy that Holden can’t keep calm. And in this chapter we understand that Holden has interests and he cares about girls. In opinion Holden’s acts are related with self protection from life. His attitude to people’s acts, to things with lots of emotions and also the main behavior of holding on.
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