...Catcher in the Rye Study Guide Chapter 1 1. How does Holden feel about his childhood? 2. Who is D.B. and what is his profession? 3. Holden is the manager of the fencing team at Pencey Prep. What did he do that angered the entire team? 4. Who is old Spencer? 5. Why had Holden been kicked out of Pencey? 6. At the end of Chapter 1, where is Holden? Chapter 2 1. What is the only subject that Holden passed? 2. While Holden is “shooting the bull” with Spencer, his mind wanders off. What does he think about? 3. Why does Holden say he left Elkton Hills School? 4. How does Holden feel about Spencer? Give some detail. Chapter 3 1. At the start of the chapter, Holden tells us something about himself of which he is very proud. What is it? 2. What did Holden buy while in NYC that morning? 3. Who is Holden’s roommate? 4. Ackley and describe him in detail. 5. How does Ackley feel about Stradlater? Chapter 4 1. Describe both Stradlater’s character and physical description. 2. What favor does Stradlater ask of Holden? 3. Who does Stradlater have a date with and how does Holden know her? Chapter 5 1. Where do Mal, Holden, and Ackley go on Saturday night? 2. What does Holden write composition about and describe the subject in the paper. 3. Who is Allie and what happened to him? ...
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...RYE by J.D. SALINGER I. Content of the Book Holden Caulfield is a very weird and interesting young man who likes to do things on impulse or because as he said 'he got such a bang out of it'. He has a brother, D.B. who is a writer in Hollywood, a little sister named Phoebe and another brother Allie, who has already died before the story even began. In the beginning of the story Holden narrates that he'll be leaving his school, Pencey Prep (a school full of Phonies from Holden’s point of view), because he flunked out in the four out of five subjects he was taking, the only subject he didn't fail was English. Holden tells the readers that he had come back to Agerstown, Pennsylvania though he was traveling with his team for a fencing contest, he lost all of the foils in a New York Subway, and so the match was cancelled instead. Holden even mentioned that on the way home his mates treated him to silence and he found this very amusing. Though there was a football game going on, Holden didn't go down and watch it, instead he went to visit his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer is a very old man who wants to help Caulfield in his studies (since Holden has also been expelled in a few other schools as well) and at some point Mr. Spencer even read out Holden's examination paper and the little note that Holden had written in the end saying that if Mr. Spencer would like to flunk him then he'd be all right with it, Holden explained to the readers that the purpose of this note...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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