...and cheap smiles in mind. Knowing my whiskey habit, my 21st was set to be a momentous day in whiskey drinking’s fantastic history. On my 21st I blacked out at 930 and didn’t get home till 2am (last sighting at least). Apparently in my stupor (like I said, it was a great day for whiskey drinking and I put on a clinic) I invited two different girls over to my house on my walk home with my friends from the bar. It really was a great birthday, I got really drunk all day all over the place so I remember very little in nothing but fragmented blurs. And oh yeah, the only bad part was that my house got robbed latter that night. This is what I do remember: I woke up wide-awake at 7:30 am so dehydrated that I could barely move or open my eyes. I’m fully dressed with my shoes still on, laying face down on top of the sheets with my contacts in and everything on my nightstand had been thrown across the floor. Jolted awake by the harsh reality of morning, I began to try to remember what happened the night before but I can’t get past that familiar yet fine taste of bourbon that has come to welcome me in the morning as often as the sun’s light. My next move seems obvious. I should go down stairs, get wicked high and chug water to recover and start to piece together the night. Once I got downstairs I saw that my bong was missing. Still quite drunk and unfazed by this seemingly small problem, I stumbled around the house looking for it. Unable to find it I decided to roll a J instead, but...
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...Q1- There are six stair step on a stair case. Issac can take a single, double or triple step at a time. How many ways are there to climb up the whole stair case. For example issac first takes a single step, then three steps at once then a single step again. This is one possible way to climb the stair case. Give all the possibilities of Issac climbing the stairs. See in the diagram that triple step is not shown. Use your imagination Issac jumps to take three steps at once. p.s; Sorry for the bad drawing ^_^ Q2- Faraday is a mad scientist who has a lot of time on his hands. One day he was looking at his simple calculator (see diagram below). He thought to himself, “How many ways can I do addition if at least 4 digit numbers are used”. You have to think of the possibilities! For example one way is 1+1 , second way is 1+2 third way is 1+3 fourth way can be 9999+9999 (this is the maximum values you can use). (Optional Question Only solve if you have solved other questions and think you are right about them) Q3- From a group of 15 people only 10 people are selected in an International Gaming event. The group has 8 boys and 7 girls. The gaming event contains 2 different games. First one is Counter strike in which 2 girls are must. The counter strike team consists of 5 players. The Second one is Dota 2 in which 3 boys must be selected. The team consists of 5 players. Give the number of possibilities in how many ways the team of 10 people from 15 people can be selected...
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...When he was trying to describe himself he said,"I am the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life" (Salinger 16). In the novel he lies countless times, one example is "If I'm on my way to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera " (Salinger 16). This problem of his makes it very hard for him to be a dependable person even though dependability is highly valued in his own opinion.Holden lies for various reasons. At times, Holden feels depressed and lies to distract himself from thinking of his problems. When Holden feels awkward or embarrassed, he lies in order to get himself out of those situations. He often lies to other people to keep them from getting to know him.For example, when Holden was at the sandwich bar eating his breakfast, he noticed two nuns and starts talking to them about Romeo and Juliet. But when the nuns asked for a donation, he gives a ten dollar contribution.When asked, Holden...
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...and all you do is talk about girls, liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddamn cliques”(Pg. 145-146). This explains/ demonstrates how Holden can easily be bothered by what high school boys are now interested in. Nor did he like the fact that people would hang out with each other that have the same interests because it was like being exposed to girls, sex, drugs and liquor. Holden says “ Do you mind cutting it out?” I said. “I’m not in the mood, I just had an operation…” “What the heck did you tell that crazy Maurice you wanted a girl for, then? If you just had a goddamn operation on your goddamn, wuddayacallit. Huh?” “ I thought you’d be feeling a lot better that i do…”(108-109); However it wasn’t necessarily the operation, Holden had on why he couldn’t have sex with her, the hooker he paid to have sex with, because he knew that by him having sex with this woman he would be exposing himself to adulthood. So instead of him having sex with her he just paid her and began to feel sorry for her and realizes that he failed to blend in with society or the human race because he just couldn’t do it. Another reason Holden failed to join the human race was because Holden didn’t like the way people would portray themselves, cause in a way they would portray themselves as something they’re not or in a way they’d treat each other. “ I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs. The only good...
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...The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Plot summary Holden begins his story at Pencey Prep, an exclusive private school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden misses the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his History teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and is not to return after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's History paper, in which Holden...
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...related text of your own choosing represent history and memory in unique and evocative ways. The interplay of history and memory combine to provide greater insight into events. Through the manipulation of textual forms and features, Mark Bakerʼs hybrid text “The Fiftieth Gate” expands and humanizes oneʼs understanding of the Holocaust in unique and evocative ways. A unique feature of the text is clever fusion between personal accounts and documented history using mediums such as, interviews, official documents, poetry and song. This enhances the stories of the authorʼs parents, Yossl and Genia, whilst evocatively capturing the atrocities of the Holocaust. The relationship between history and memory is further explored in Kevin Ruddʼs “Sorry apology to Stolen Generations”. Bakerʼs “The Fiftieth Gate” suggests that memory humanises historical events, juxtaposed by the emotionless discourse of history in unique and evocative ways. Baker provides insight into the historical events associated with the Holocaust,emphasising number of deaths that occurred during the genocide. In Gate 26, Baker explores the deaths Geniaʼs parents witnessed in the lines, “Among 1380 people, one family survived by chance. They were Leo Krochmal and his wife Rosa who witnessed the shooting,” The impersonal tone and simple language in the lines underscores the straightforward and detached nature of history. In contrast, the recount of Genia hiding from Germans in Gate 6 is markedly more confrontative...
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...4141- 4141--- Cherished and Cursed:Towarda Social History of The Catcher in the Rye STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD THE plot is brief:in 1949 or perhaps 1950, over the course of three days during the Christmas season, a sixteen-yearold takes a picaresque journey to his New YorkCity home from the third private school to expel him. The narratorrecounts his experiences and opinions from a sanitarium in California. A heavy smoker, Holden Caulfield claims to be already six feet, two inches tall and to have wisps of grey hair; and he wonders what happens to the ducks when the ponds freeze in winter. The novel was published on 16 July 1951, sold for $3.00, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Within two weeks, it had been reprinted five times, the next month three more times-though by the third edition the jacket photographof the author had quietly disappeared. His book stayed on the bestseller list for thirty weeks, though never above fourth place.' Costing 75?, the Bantam paperback edition appeared in 1964. By 1981, when the same edition went for $2.50, sales still held steady, between twenty and thirty thousand copies per month, about a quarter of a million copies annually. In paperback the novel sold over three million copies between 1953 and 1964, climbed even higher by the 1980s, and continues to attract about as many buyers as it did in 1951. The durabilityof The author appreciates the invitationof Professors Marc Lee Raphaeland Robert A. Gross to present an early version...
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...clinging onto childhood, but despite his fears, change is inevitable . After reading the novel through a new literary criticism lens it is argued that author J.D. Salinger is informing his readers to avoid being overly attached to childhood because growing up is natural. Salinger engraves this message in his audience’s minds through the use of stylistic devices such as hyperbole, symbolism as well as indirect characterization. Salinger’s message of clinging onto childhood and resisting change is enforced on many occasions throughout the novel. Using hyperbole, in the first chapter of the novel, Holden emphasizes how tall he is and how he has gray hair, yet he admits that he still acts young for his age. “It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and half and have gray hair...The one side of my head...is full of millions of gray hairs...And yet I still act sometimes like I was only twelve.” (Salinger, 9) Salinger uses this hyperbole to really highlight to his readers that even though Holden might look like he is getting older on the outside, on the inside he still acts young and immature like a child. A second example of hyperbole that Salinger uses focuses more heavily on not liking change. In chapter 25 there is an instance in the novel where Holden is approaching a carousel which he used to often ride as a kid. He reflects on how he loves how the carousel keeps playing the same song forever and never changes. “...We kept getting closer and...
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...Tyler Ryan Professor Wheeler English 101 April 22, 2015 Catcher in the Rye Jerome David (J.D.) Salinger was born on New Year’s Day in the year 1919, in New York City, “the second and last child of Sol and Marie (Miriam) Jillich Salinger” (Alexander 1). As a young boy, Salinger was interested in theatre and dramatics. Growing up, he attended a public school on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. He was always a very quiet and polite young man. His parents, Sol and Marie, thought he would fit in perfectly in a private school – seeing how well-mannered that young Salinger was – they “enrolled him in McBurney School in Manhattan in 1932” (Alexander 2), but, just as one of his most famous characters, Holden Caufield, he did not fit in very well in the private school, struggling to keep his grades satisfactory. Concerned, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy when he was just 15 years old. “There he was active in drama and singing clubs. He sometimes wrote fiction by flashlight under his blankets at night and contributed to the school’s magazine” (Alexander 3). Salinger graduated in June of 1936 from Valley Forge, and then went on to pursue a brief, but significant college career. He began his education at New York University, but quickly dropped out “to try performing as an entertainer on a Caribbean cruise ship” (Alexander 4). When he was 20 years old, he worked toward his college career once again. He enrolled in a class at Columbia University to learn...
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...In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger illustrates that Holden carries a deep grudge against the world. Hence, after closely studying Holden’s character, one can state that his bitterness and grudge acts as a cover for his own insecurities. Throughout the story, Holden seems to be in a continuous war with himself, constantly trying to escape from his inner discord and turmoil. As a result, he is often caught judging others, and isolating himself from the rest of the world. Holden is also seen as an immature adolescent who finds comfort in viewing the world from only his own stubborn perspectives, because he finds others viewpoints to be fake and flawed. Thus, these reasons explain why Holden’s grudge against the world is just a cover for his own insecurities. While reading the novel, it can be seen that Holden’s judgmental behaviors are portrayed throughout many instances in the story. For example, although Holden has many friends at Pencey, he still criticizes them for all of their faults. When Holden leaves Pencey at the end of chapter seven, he says “sleep tight, ya morons!” (page 59). He does this in order to convince himself that he doesn’t feel sad or dejected about leaving the others. The author also does this in order to build on Holden’s independent and stubborn nature. In addition, when explaining his reason for leaving his old high school, he says, “one of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies” (page 17). Holden's...
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...crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars cars and turn and turn on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner-everybody except Allie. I couldn't stand it" (Salinger 155-156). This quote just shows how much it bothers Holden that Allie isn't alive. Also Allie was so young and he can't do things that other people his age can, because he died at such a young age. Holden became focused on innocence after he lost his because of Allie's death. Holden talks about being the catcher in the rye towards the middle of the novel and how he would save the kids. "Anyway I kept picturing all these kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy but that's the only thing I'd really like to be" (Salinger 173). This quote just means that Holden would protect the kids from the real world. He doesn't want the kids to go through what he had to. After Allie died Holden got very depressed and his depression grew throughout the course of the novel. This quote points out the fact that he doesn't want the kids to suffer like he did at such a young age. Holden had many ways in which he tried to save...
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...“I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen.” (Salinger 9). In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” the main character Holden Caulfield struggles between acting like an adult and acting like a child. Whether he’s out avoiding all of his problems or he’s trying to get a waiter to bring him an alcoholic drink even though he is under age, Holden acted like a child. Holden is seventeen during the time he is telling us about the things he did when he was sixteen and throughout the whole novel he is continuously doing childish things. In chapter six when his roommate, Stradlater, had come home from his date with Jane, Holden was purposely trying to annoy Stradlater by calling him a moron. He knew Stradlater did not like being called a moron so he said it as a sort of defense, not only did he start calling names but he also tried to bunch Stradlater. Holden resorted to calling names and physical contact when he could have just as easily told Stradlater that he did not like the idea of him going out with Jane....
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... Shazor Khan HONORS ENGLISH PERIOD 5 Retaining innocence is key to happiness The only way to feel true happiness is if one had never seen the harshness of the world. Within the book there are many instances where Salinger shows the fact that Holden is at his happiest when he seems to have an innocent state of mind. Salinger continues to show that retaining innocence is vital, through the fact that Holden despises the fact that someone can try to make a person or child, lose their innocence, it would be as if they are losing their happiness. Salinger makes sure that the world understands that Holden desires to keep the innocence of a young one. Throughout the book one message that is being constantly conveyed, is that retaining innocence is the key to happiness, and that is the message that the author J. D. Salinger is trying to convey Holden seems to be very happy when he feels it is not necessary to ask questions that are not “Phony” or “Fake”...
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...Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D Salinger's Bildungsroman story “the Catcher in the Rye”, fears and hates the idea of becoming an adult. Holden shows this during chapter 25 when he repeatedly asks his dead brother Allie to save his innocence. “Allie, don't let me disappear. Please Allie.”(257). Due to the fact the Holden considers “disappearing” losing your childhood innocence, and the fact that he’s talking to his dead younger brother, I believe that it is clear that Holden is deeply afraid of becoming an adult. Another instance where Holden shows his worry that he might become an adult was (again) during chapter 25. Holden was walking around in his little sister Phoebe's school, when he notices “Fuck you” written on the wall....
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...field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place…. Because practically the whole school except I was there (Salinger, 2). This proves that his attitude and ego does not allow him to have friends and the reason behind him feeling isolated. Thirdly, Holden knows that social setting is the best chance to meet and socialize with people, but as always he purposely tries to isolate himself. Interestingly, he tries to do this when he goes to Mr. Spencer’s house; he makes up an excuse to go away from him. “Wouldn’t you like a cup of hot chocolate before you go? Mrs. Spencer would be-“. I would, I really would, but the thing is, I have to get going. I have to go right to the gym. I’M THE MOST terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine….” (Salinger, 16). This demonstrates that he doesn’t like to share things even with the people who are close to him like Mr. Spencer and when he goes to his house he tries to run away without answering or ignoring his questions and that’s why he feels isolated. To conclude skipping school without telling anyone, not connecting everyone at school, not socializing with people makes Holden feel isolated. Secondly, loneliness makes Holden depress, makes him think about his brother, and making him call different people to hear their voices. After, being alone in the big, expensive city surrounded by rich people for a long time Holden begins to feel depressed. To...
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