holden caulfield | holden caulfield
Sep.19.2012
One of the most common complaints I hear about THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is Holden Caufield's swearing--that it's not only offensive but it feels unrealistic because nobody would talk like that. Well, the truth is that he's not actually talking. In the vast majority of cases, the swearing is reserved...
|
Sep.09.2012
Photo: Not Dr. Redhead. A redhead from everydayhealth.com
So I'm at the emergency room the other day, never mind when--and, actually, I'd been there two days before that, too, but I needed to go back for more bloodwork--and despite bringing two books with me, I was captivated by...
|
|
Aug.02.2012
The Catcher in the Rye and Ordinary People are about the same topic: a sixteen-year-old boy in crisis from witnessing the death of their brothers. Two very different books but similar in many ways. Why does one sell millions more? Why did OP get made into an award winning feature film...
|
Jul.19.2012
We'd have fewer cases of teenagers going postal if CATCHER were used to teach about mental illness. Like John Voss in EMPIRE FALLS, and Andrew Clark in the cult film, BREAKFAST CLUB, Holden Caulfield shines a golden light on the teenager in crisis.
Try and view CATCHER as less about...
|
|
Jun.27.2012
As an undergraduate in the '60s I could barely get through CATCHER. I didn't care about some crude spoiled preppy kid who couldn't get his act together. In a word, I was clueless.
I reread the book last fall and discovered something profound, that Holden was suffering from PTSD stemming from the...
|
Feb.12.2012
photo: Audiobook of Speak, from booksamillion.com. (Wikipedia's image was very faint.)
I volunteered to make a CD from the tapes of this title, so I figured I'd get some computer work done at the same time. I do that from time to time for free. I tell the people how long...
|
|
Dec.02.2011
We've all had them--the teacher whose class you hated to attend: who talks without saying anything or plays favorites or humiliates or any number of abuses of this exalted role in front of the class.
In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger burns Mr. Spencer into our memory with one of my favorite...
|
Jan.19.2011
The book was very good, please don't get me wrong, but the very young Stephen Soderbergh's unauthorized, little-known, and briefly-released-and-immediately- withdrawn film version (after a threatened suit from J.D. Salinger), was a refreshing if incomprehensible re-interpretation of teenage...
|
Jul.28.2010
Yesterday's line? If you were struck by the tone, and understood that the voice was that of a sullen teen, you probably guessed it was Holden Caulfield, speaking the first line of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye.
First lines can provoke, and they can even confuse. Try this famous...
|
Jan.29.2010
Mirriam-Webster on-line Dictionary
. . . . . . . caul . . . . . . .
Etymology: Middle English calle net, probably from Old English cawl basket
Date: 14th century
2 : the inner fetal membrane of higher vertebrates especially when covering the head at birth
In my on line community, friends...
|