Monday, May 2, 2011
what my feelings about Holden are
Towards the beginning of the book, I passed judgment about Holden Caulfield because I didn't know much about him. He seemed a lot like me, with all of his problems. I didn't feel empathy towards him because he was flunking out of a bunch of his classes, and his schools even though he was smart. I didn't feel sympathy towards him because even though he had kind of crappy parents and not a lot of friends, he didn't end up as a bad kid. The only bad thing that he did do was smoke cigarettes, which wasn't even the result of his parents being crappy, but more because he just wanted to. A possible reason for Holden not working at all in school is because his brother had done so well with his life that his parents were pressuring Holden a lot to be like him. Then he just gave up to eliminate any competition that he would have had with D.B. in school so that his parents knew that he wouldn't be like D.B.
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I can relate to Holden on this one, my parents clearly like my younger sister more and it causes me to almost give up on being way good and successful because I already know they like her more and there isn't even a question about it.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I feel the same as Maranda. My parents are more proud of my older sister because she actually tried to do well in high school and she got into a way good college. So if the bar is set too high why even jump?
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