Friday, September 28, 2007

Chapter 5

We listened to chapter 5 today and talked about some allusions in the chapter.
In the second period we had a chapters 1-5 quiz.


HOMEWORK:
-Finish chapter 5 questions
-Write a journal about the day that Mr. Spencer had Holden over to his home.
Write as if Mr. Spencer is -YOU.

What advice did Mr. Spencer give Holden?? What did Holden think of this advice??

1/2-1 page


Chapter Five:
On Saturday nights at Pencey the students are served steak; Holden believes this occurs because parents visit on Sunday and students can thus tell them that they had steak for dinner the previous night, as if it were a common occurrence. Holden goes with Ackley and Mal Brossard into New York City to see a movie, but since Ackley and Brossard had both seen that particular Cary Grant comedy, they play pinball and get hamburgers instead. When they return, Ackley remains in Holden's room, telling about a girl he had sex with, but Holden knows that he is lying, for whenever he tells that same story, the details always change. Holden tells him to leave so that he can write Stradlater's composition. He writes about his brother Allie's baseball mitt. Allie, born two years after Holden, died of leukemia in 1946. The night that Allie died, Holden broke all of the windows in his garage with his fist.