#Ward Stradlater

[gangles-toybox]

Gay gay homosexual gay

[getchhoo]

I genuinely don't think I can dig myself out of the catcher in the rye hyperfixation... It's bad ... These little critters are all I can think about...

[idrinkjuicewhenkilling]

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[gangles-toybox]

Imma answer with my Holden Caulfield playlist because erm why not >:]

1: um...not really any...but the most plausible to happen in like an au would be Hansel by Soddiken or dumb dumb by maize

2: Your New Home by Gooseworx and His Theme by Toby Fox(my only explanations are your new home is just him realizing like holy shit I'm growing up and his theme reminds him of Allie :])

3: ok literally just added didn't know it was on Spotify but It'll be OK from fiw...ik what the song is about but the only part that applies is the "I always wanted my own brother" esp the "but then he signed that record label, a cute quinet of boyish sound. But now that everybody loves him, I'm just a face out in the crowd" when D.B got into Hollywood and kinda left their family in his opinion yk?

4: Monster by Skillet/This is not a Christmas Song by NEFFEX, enough said

5: Soft Bitch by Rio Romeo and God it's so good, his ass would never listen to it but I view it as him getting soft around Stradlater cuz yk I ship em

6: My R by Lollia with him wanting to be the catcher in the rye and stuff

7: Nobody Likes Me(Think I'll go eat worms) by ABC Kids. I can't explain it other than he would be an animation meme kid

character playlists always should have the following:

song that is pretty accurate to the character’s story

song that doesn’t fit the character at all but i was thinking about them while listening to it on loop

song that has one or two lines accurate to the character’s story

song that just kind of is the character’s vibe

song that i desperately wish they would listen to because i personally like it

song that fits the character so well that it’s scary

unsure why this song is in the playlist but it’s so ingrained in my mind as 'part of the playlist' that it would feel weird to remove it

[catcherintherye09978]

entry 4

Surprise dummies!!!

I finished the book. Earlier than I thought it would. I have many things to say. One of the things I would like to do ASAP, is my book review. So here it goes.

Holden, the narrator and protagonist, relates the account of his travels before Christmas from what appears to be a sanatorium. Holden is at Pencey Prep School when the story opens, making his way to Spencer, his history teacher's home , so he can say goodbye. He informs the reader that he was expelled as a result of failing the majority of his classes. Following his visit to Spencer, Holden runs into Ward Stradlater, his roommate, who asks him to write an essay for English class while he goes on a date with a longstanding Holden acquaintance. Holden writes about his younger brother Allie's baseball glove after they had agreed to this. Allie passed away from leukemia. Holden is informed by Stradlater upon his return that the essay. Holden becomes enraged when Stradlater refuses to reveal if he had sex with his date. Holden storms out, leaving Pencey in New York City a few days early for Christmas break. He is unable to return home after he gets to New York since his parents are still unaware that he has been expelled. He decides to stay at the Edmont Hotel instead, where he sees some sexually graphic events through the windows of other rooms. He then seeks out social connection at the hotel's nightclub, the Lavender Room, as a result of his loneliness. He visits another nightclub after speaking with a few women there, but leaves after spotting his older brother's ex-girlfriend. Once he arrives to the hotel, he asks a prostitute to attend to his room so he may speak to her. He gets punched in the stomach as a result of what happened. Holden contacts his ex-girlfriend Sally Hayes the following morning. After sharing the day together, Holden makes a rude comment, and she breaks down and pulls away. Later, Holden meets up with Carl Luce, a former classmate, at a bar, but Luce departs early after becoming irritated with Holden's crude remarks. Holden stays behind and consumes alcohol on his own. He lingers around Central Park after he departs until the cold forces him to go back to his family's apartment. Still hesitant to confront his parents, he sneaks in and discovers Phoebe, his sister who is 10 years old. When she learns that Holden has failed, she is angry and accuses him of being uninterested in anything. At this point, Holden tells his sister about his dream when he heard a little child singing the song "If a body catches a body comin' thro the rye," he was inspired to create "the catcher in the rye." According to Phoebe, the line is from a Robert Burns poem called "If a Body Meet a Body Comin Thro the Rye." Holden sneaks away as they hear their parents arriving from a night out. Holden makes contact with Mr. Antolini, his ex English teacher, who offers Holden to stay at his house. On Antolini's couch, Holden drops out and wakes up to see Antolini petting his forehead, which he perceives as a sexual drive. He leaves right away and spends the rest of the evening at Grand Central Station. When he wakes up, he goes to Phoebe's school and drops off a letter asking her to meet him at a museum at lunch, informing her of his plans to flee. She insists on coming with him and shows up there with a suitcase packed. He declines and offers to take her to the zoo instead. Outside, in the cold rain, he sees her ride the carousel. This indicates the ending of the flashback. Holden explains that he has "fallen poorly," but that he hopes to attend a different school next fall as the book comes to an end.

Woah. Heavy, isn’t it? Well, for you lazy boys that are so useless in life that you are unable to read a book by yourself and need me to summarize it, there you go. Now I ask you to get prepared for the next entry, because I decided to write it in a stream of consciousness. Just like my J.D. Cheers, mate!!!

[hcldn]

holden and stradlater kissed. i will not elaborate

[see]

ward stradlater oh how i wish i could save you

[gangles-toybox]

he's the typa guy to say "no more mister nice guy"

he's the typa guy to say "relax liberal" when somebody tries to argue with him

his ass is bi!!!

age regressor, to deal with his trauma and shit

probably at least *started* drinking and smoking to look cool, or at least the first time he did it

as a little kid he cried over getting Bs on anything because it was less than D.B or Allie was getting and he felt like expectations were put on him :(

argued with his dad during his emo/goth phase(he def had one/both of those!! maybe he still in it who knows)

would kin pity from gloomy bear and Mabel from gravity falls because I said so!!!!!!!!

only comic he will read is batman

goes to drive in movies with Stradlater <3

probably draws at least a bit so everytime he looks at it, it's the same[like the muesum] & to remember

says he's "insane" and "not like other kids" reading the most obscure book ever!!![the great gatsby]

all the catcher in the rye fans, what's your headcanon of Holden Caulfield?

[worldmadeofwordsnbooks]

#qotd: what are you currently reading?

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#readingupdate

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WEDNESDAY 💚

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I started this book Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger a long time back along with A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Mass. I completed two books in between this those were: The Diary of a Submissive by Sophie Morgan and We should all be Feminist by

This book, Catcher in the rye went really slow for me, I found it somewhere difficult to connect to it enough to read it without having to think that maybe I should start some other book. So, I finally decided, I'll DNF it and maybe I'll read it some other time when I will be looking for a slow paced read maybe.

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My review till how much I understood and completed this book :

This book is about a boy named Holden. The protagonist of this book. He's expelled from basically all the schools he went to till now. He had an elder brother who was writer when he used to be at home.

Holden starts his story from when he was about to leave his school or you could say he was expelled yet again from Pency Prep which was in Angerstown Pennsylvania.

Here he talks about when he went to meet his professor Mr. Spencer and the conversation they had. How the professor was worried about Holdens future as all teachers tend to be worried about their students future, but Holden didn't care about it much.

He also tells us about his roommate and his senior, Ward Stradlater and about his neighbours roomate Robert Ackley.

For me Ackley came across as a guy who had to be told many times to do something and still he won't listen, maybe you can call him stubborn kindof.

Stradlater came across as a person or rather a senior who would deligate their work to their juniors so that they themselves can go for parties, dates etc. and then not even appreciate the work that's done because it's not done in the way they wanted it. Holden being a kindof nice roomate did the assignment for his senior anyways but as he didn't do it yhe way Stradlater wanted him to do it they ended up having a bad fight.

Here, one more character who was introduced was Jane Gallagher, who seems to be Holdens crush probably, also a neighbour during summer time (currently it's winter), she is a dancer and Holden mentions how they used to play together all the time.

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This is what I have read till now.

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Rating ~ 3/5 (🌟🌟🌟/5)

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Tweet #3

Ward Stradlater

@ StradLADer

If I ask you to do me a favor, pls carry it out and do it well for christ sake

[gangles-toybox]

Holden Caulfield wouldn't mind being in love with a boy if it didn't mean being in love with Ward Stradlater.

Ward Stradlater wouldn't mind being in love with Holden Caulfield if it didn't mean being in love with a boy.

[getchhoo]

I'm literally obsessed with The Catcher In The Rye can anyone talk to me about it 🥺🥺 Please 😁😁🤞🏻🤞🏻

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J.D. SALINGER ÇAVDAR TARLASINDA ÇOCUKLAR ÖZETİ

Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar, Salinger’ın tek romanı. Olayların 1940’ların sonu 1950’lerin başı şeklinde bir dönemde geçmiş olduğu, buluğluk çağının içinde, erişkin dünyanın düzenine karşı isyankar bir çocuğun, bir Noel öncesi başına gelenlerin anlatıldığı romanda, Holden Caulfield’in masumiyet arayışının iç burkucu öyküsüne şahit oluruz. Kim bilir Salinger’ın. 1993’te Franny ve Zoey ile Dokuz Öykü adlı kitaplarını yayımladığımız Salinger, 1963’ten bu yana yeni bir yapıt yayımlamamasına ve neredeyse efsaneleşmiş haline gelmiş bir gizlilik içinde yaşamasına rağmen, dünya edebiyat gündemindeki yerini hep koruyor.

Pek oldukca insanoğlunun hakkında konuştuğum için üzgünüm. Bildiğim tek şey; size anlattığım herkesi birazcık özlüyorum. Bizim Stradlater’ı ve Ackley’i bile, sözgelimi. Sanırım o nalet Maurice’i bile özlüyorum. Sakın hiç kimseye bir şey anlatmayın. Herkesi özlemeye başlıyorsunuz sonrasında. Gönülçelen ya da Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar (Emsalsiz adıyla: The Catcher in the Rye), ilk olarak 1951’de Birleşik Krallık ve ABD’de basıldı. “Çağdaş zamanların başyapıtı” olarak değerlendirilen bu yapıt, “ahlâk dışı” ve “açık saçık” bulunduğundan ABD’nin birçok tutucu bölgesinde uzun süre yasaklı kaldı. Hâlâ bazı Amerikan kütüphanelerinde yasaklı kalmasına karşın, kitabın yasaklanması günümüzde garip bir hal almıştır: ABD’de lise düzeyinde en oldukca yasaklanan kitap olmasına karşın bununla birlikte en oldukca okutulan kitaptır. 1967’deki Adnan Benk‘in İngilizce aslından değil de Fransızca versiyonu olan “L’Attrape-cœurs”den yapmış olduğu dolaylı çevirisinden dolayı kitap Türkiye’de “Gönülçelen” olarak tanınır. Kitabın Yapı Kredi Yayınları basımı çevirisi Coşkun Yerli’ye aittir ve bu kez Türkçe adı emsalsiz adına daha yakındır: “Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar”. Kitap, anti-kahraman Holden Caulfield’ın okuldan atılmasıyla başlamış olan süreci Holden’ın kendi ağzından anlatır. Stylist.co.uk sitesi tarafınca “En iyi ve en ikonik 100 giriş cümlesi” sıralamasında romanın giriş cümlesi birinci sırada yer alırken “En iyi 101 kapanış cümlesi” sıralamasında on beşinci sırada yer aldı. HİKAYE İLK AĞIZDAN ANLATILIYOR Vikipedi’de kitabın mevzusu şu şekilde özetleniyor: Hikâye ilk ağızdan anlatılır. Holden Caulfield’ın üç gününü kapsayan kitap, Holden’ın okumuş olduğu Pencey Prep’ten Noel’den (tahminen 1949) derhal ilkin kovulmasıyla adım atar. Daha ilkin, iki okuldan daha kovulmuştur ve bu sefer ailesiyle yüzleşmemek için eve gitmek istemez. İlk ilkin eski tarih hocası Mr. Spencer’ı ziyaret eder. Canını sıkan hocasından kurtulan Caulfield, yurda döner fakat orada da başta yakışıklı ve atletik Stradlater olmak suretiyle yurt dostlarıyla kapışır ve orayı da küfürler savurarak terk eder. New York’ta içmiş şekilde gezmeye başlamış olan Caulfield, tanıdıklarıyla rastlaşır. Devamlı olarak etrafındaki her insanoğlunun “samimiyetsiz/yapmacık (phony)” bulunduğunu söyleyen Caulfield sonunda bir otele çekilir ve bekaretini yitirmek için bir bayan satıcısıyla kız mevzusunda anlaşır. Odasına yaşıtı bulunduğunu tahmin etmiş olduğu bir kız gelir, fakat nedense sevişmek istemeyen Holden yüzünden işler yolunda gitmez ve hanım satıcısı fazladan 5 $ daha alır. Holden sonrasında eski kız arkadaşlarından Sally Hayes ile çıkmaya karar verir ve onu arar. Birlikte tiyatroya ve buz pateni hayata geçirmeye giderler. Sonunda dayanamayan Caulfield kıza hakaret eder. Sally kaçtıktan sonrasında Caulfield bunalmış bir halde, ailesine çaktırmadan kız kardeşi Phoebe`yi görmek için eve gider. Ufak kız kardeşi ona Noel için biriktirdiği parayi verir. Caulfield ailesi geldiği anda evden kaçar. Kitabın sonlarına doğru, Holden güvenilmiş olduğu tek hoca olan Mr. Antolini’nin evine gider. Hocası ona geleceği için mantıklı ve yararlı öğütler verir. Uyumaya başlamış olan Caulfield gözlerini açtığında hocasının onun alnını okşadığını görür. Niçin bunu yapmış olduğu kitapta tam açıklanmasa da, Holden bunu hocasının eşcinsel eğilimlerine yorar. Evden kaçan Holden, bir tren istasyonunda uyuyakalır. Sabah kalktığında da, Batı`ya doğru otostop çekip gitmeyi kafasına koymuştur. Tanımış olduğu tüm insanlardan kaçıp vardığı yerde sağır taklidi yaparak bambaşka bir yaşam sürecektir. Fakat ilkin bitirilmesi ihtiyaç duyulan bir iş vardır, kız kardeşinin parasını geri vermek. Holden, Phoebe’nin okuluna gider ve sekretere kız kardeşini öğle teneffüsünde okulun yakınındaki müzede beklediğine dair bir not bırakır. Phoebe, Holden’ın yanına vardığında elbiselerle dolu bir bavul taşımaktadır. Niyeti bellidir: Ağabeyiyle beraber gitmek. Holden bu isteğini sertçe reddeder. Kız kardeşine fena örnek bulunduğunu düşünmeye adım atmıştır artık. Phoebe ona küser ve Holden gitmekten vazgeçtiğini söyler, kız kardeşini sehir parkina götürür. Atlı karıncaya binen Phoebe, Holden’ı neredeyse ağlatacak kadar mutlu eder. Holden Caulfield’ın hikâyeyi anlatması burada bitiyor. Günümüze dönerek olaylardan sonrasında hastalandığını, şu anda bir psikaytrist ile görüştüğünü ve sonbaharda okula gideceğinden bahsederek kitabı sonlandırıyor. BAŞLICA KARAKTERLER Holden Caulfield: Hikâyenin anlatıcısı. Vakalar 17 yaşındaki Holden’ın bakış açısından anlatılmaktadır. Phoebe Caulfield: Holden’ın küçük kız kardeşi. Bazen Phoebe’ye sinirlenir Holden, fakat kardeşi hemen hemen masumiyetini kaybetmediğinden onu hiçbir süre “yapmacıklıkla” suçlamaz. Allie Caulfield: Allie, Holden`ın ölen adam kardeşidir. Lösemiden yaşamını yitirmiştir. Allie’nin ölümü büyük olasılıkla Holden’ın yaşamış olduğu yırtıcı buluğluk sürecinin mühim tetikleyicilerinden biridir. D. B. Caulfield: D.B., Holden’ın ağabeyidir. Hollywood için senaryo yazmaktadır ve yazdıkları oldukca satılmaktadır. Holden ağabeyinin Hollywood’a senaryo yazmasını doğru bulmamaktadır. O yüzden o da, Holden’a nazaran bir ‘phony’dir. Bundan dolayı bu öyküler oldukca satmıştır ve ağabeyi yapmacıktır. Robert Ackley: Caulfield’ın oda arkadaşı. Sivilceli bir yüze haizdir, daha utangaç olması gerekirken aksine karakter olarak da sinir bir kişiliğe haizdir. Jane Gallagher: Jane kitapta hiçbir süre gözükmez, fakat anlaşılan odur ki Holden’ın hakkaten bir şeyler hissettiği azca sayıda insandan biridir. Jane’i “yapmacık” olarak değerlendirmez fakat arada geçen zamanda yapmacık olabileceğini içten içe düşündüğünden onunla karşılaşmaktan korkar. Ward Stradlater: Stradlater, Holden’ın yakışıklı ve popüler oda arkadaşıdır. Cinselliği yaşamış okuldaki nadir çocuklardan biridir. Holden tesadüf sonucu Stradlater’in Jane ile dışarı çıkacağını duyunca kriz geçirir ve Stradlater’a saldırır. Mr. Spencer: Mr. Spencer, Holden’ın Pencey Prep’teki tarih öğretmeni. Aslen fena bir insan olmayan Spencer, Holden’a devamlı “oyunu kurallarına nazaran oynamak”tan bahseder. Mr. Antolini: Caulfield’ın eski İngilizce hocası. Mr. Antolini de, olgunluk ve yaratıcılık üstüne Holden`a yararlı sayılabilecek bir konuşma yapar, fakat geceleyin Holden`ı okşaması Holden`ın bunu eşcinsel bir hareket olarak düşünmesine neden olur. Carl Luce: Carl eski okuldan arkadaşıdır. Holden ile bir barda buluşur. Fakat Holden`ın buluğluk hezeyanlarına dayanamayarak kendinin bu tarz şeyleri çoktan aştığı düşüncesiyle onu terk eder. Sally Hayes: Holden’ın çıkma teklifi etmiş olduğu kızdır, fakat bu teklif esnasında Holden oldukca ciddi değildir ve aniden Sally’e hakaretler yağdırmaya adım atar. George Andover: Sally ile Holden tiyatroya gittiklerinde Sally`nin arkadaşı George ile karşılaşırlar. Holden aralarındaki konuşmaya şahit olur ve ikisinden de aniden nefret eder. Maurice: Edmont Oteli’ndeki asansörcü çocuk. Hem de hanım pazarlayan Maurice, Holden’ın üzerine giderek ayarladığı hanım karşılığında Holden`dan zorla daha çok para alır. Sunny: Genç bir fahişedir. Otelde Holden’ın odasına gelir fakat Holden Sunny ile sevişmekten kaçınır. Ossenberger: Holden’ın okulu Pencey Prep’ten eski mezun varlıklı bir iş adamı. Ernest Morrow: Ernest’in annesiyle trende karşılaşan Holden, annesine oğlunun oldukca duyarlı bir çocuk bulunduğunu söyler bu annesinin oldukca hoşuna gider fakat okuyucuya tam tersine Ernest’in tanımış olduğu en büyük hödüklerden biri olduğundan bahseder. Anne Louise Sherman: Holden’ın eski kız arkadaşı. Valencia: Valencia, The Wicker Bar’daki hanım. Holden onunla ilgilenir, fakat ciddiye alınmaz. Faith Cavendish: Holden’ın New York City’de canı sıkılıyorken telefonla aramış olduğu hanım. Beraberce kolayca seviştiği söylenen bu hanımı Holden ikna edemez ve telefonu kapatır. Eddie Birdsell: Birdsell, Faith’ı tavlamanın kolay bulunduğunu Holden’a söyleyen şahıs. Ernie: Ernie New York’ta bir barda piyano çalan şahıs. Ernie’nin oldukça yetenekli bulunduğunu düşünen Holden bir taraftan onu “yapmacık”la suçlar, zira Ernie insanların önünde kendi kabiliyetini sergiler ve tebrikleri memnuniyetle kabul eder. Horwitz: Holden’ın binmiş olduğu taksinin şoförü. Aralarında “ördeklerin kışın nereye gittiği” mevzusunda bir muhabbet geçer. Lillian Simmons: Lillian Simmons, D.B. Caulfield’ın eski arkadaşı. Holden barda karşılaşmıştır. Hazle Weatherfield: Phoebe Caulfield’ın hikâyelerinde uydurmuş olduğu karakter. Rudolf Schmidt: Pencey Prep’teki kapıcı. Jim Steele: Holden’ın uydurmuş olduğu başka bir kimlik. Arthur Childs: Whooton’dayken Holden ile tenis ve spor hakkında konuşmuş çocuk. Muhabbete aniden Katolik Kilisesi’nin nerede bulunduğunu sokması Holden’ın çocuktan soğumasına niçin olmuştur. James Castle: James Castle, Holden Whooton`dayken intihar eden çocuk. Castle’ın düştüğünü duyduğu sırada Holden duş almaktaydı, ses o denli güçlüydü ki bunun bir masa yada radyo falan olabileceğini düşünmüştü. Castle’ın cansız bedenini yerden kaldırırken Mr. Antolini onu kucaklamaya cesaret eden tek kişiydi. Phil Stabile: James Castle’ın intiharından görevli olan şahıs. Phil Stable dostlarıyla beraber James’in odasına dalmış ve evladı daha ilkin söylediği birkaç sözü geri almak için zorlamıştır. Castle da, geri almayı reddetmiş ve kendini camdan aşağı atmıştır. Ed Banky: Pencey’deki beyzbol hocası, ara sıra otomobilini öğrencilere vermektedir. Fredrick Woodruff: Holden Pencey`den ayrılırken onun 90 dolarlık daktilosunu 20 dolara alan şahıs. Mal Brossard: Holden’ın bir tanımış olduğu. Holden’ın Pencey’deki son gecesinde birlikte beyazperdeye gitmişlerdir. Mr. Haas: Elkton Hills okulunun müdürü. Holden`a nazaran aşağılık bir sahtekar. Bundan dolayı daha gariban, gülünç giyinişli velilerle konuşmayı fazla istemez. Dr. Thurmer: Pencey Prep’in müdürü. Selma Thurmer: Pencey Prep’in müdürnün kızı. Pencey’in maçlarını izlemeye gider ve Holden ile de aralarında bir sefer bir diyalog geçmiştir. Pete: Holden’ın apartmanındaki asansör bakıcısı. Kaynak: Vikipedi OKUDUYSANIZ PAYLAŞIN LÜTFEN HERKES OKUSUN

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Chapters 3 - 5 Summary

Chapter 3

Holden lives in the Ossenburger hall which was named after a Pencey graduate who made a fortune from owning funeral homes. Robert Ackley, an unlikable person with bad hygiene who is also Holden’s neighbour barges in his dorm. When Ackley comments on Holden's hunting hat, Holden tells him it's a "people shooting hat." Ward Stradlater, Holden's handsome roommate enters his room. Ackley dislikes Stradlater; he leaves the dorm immediately. Stradlater tells Holden he has a date.

Chapter 4  

Holden keeps Stradlater company as he asks who his date it. Stradlater says it is Jane Gallagher. Holden was shocked and told Stradlater that he knew Jane from playing checkers with her one summer, but Stradlater did not seem to care. Once Stradlater leaves the room, Ackley again barges in. This time Holden is happy to see him.   

Chapter 5   

Holden convinces his friend Mal Brossard to let Ackley come see a movie with them. But when they realize that Mal and Ackley have already seen the movie, they eat hamburgers and play pinball instead. When Holden returns back to his room, he begins to write Stradlater's composition. Holden writes about his brother Allie's baseball glove, which Allie had covered with poems. Holden was thirteen when Allie died of leukemia at age eleven. He describes Allie as kind, innocent, and the smartest person in his family. 

[catchingmerye-blog]

Ackley, Gallacher, and Stradlater

Holden’s deceased brother, Allie, had a baseball mitt with poems written in green ink on it. Is there a correlation between Holden’s cynical attitude towards society and Allie’s death?

           Following his visit to Mr. Spencer’s house, Holden returns to his dorm at Pencey. Not long after that, his dorm neighbour, Robert Ackley, barges into his room. Holden’s unfavourable opinion of Ackley is mostly based on Ackley’s poor hygiene habits. Ackley remains there until Holden’s fit and handsome roommate, Ward Stradlater, comes back. Stradlater asks Holden to write his homework composition since he was leaving to go on a date with Jane Gallagher. This makes Holden uncomfortable, since he likes Jane too. While Stradlater was on his date, Holden, Ackley, and Mal Brossard went out to watch a movie. Upon returning to the dorm, Holden starts writing the composition for Stradlater. Although the composition was supposed to be about a room or house, Holden writes about his younger brother Allie’s baseball mitt. Holden was only thirteen when Allie died from leukemia.

               It’s clear that Holden is bitter about many aspects of his life, such as having to attend Pencey and seeing Jane go out with Stradlater. I can also be quite bitter about some aspects of my life, but not nearly as bitter as Holden. Things that depress me are really simple, such as having to get up on Monday mornings for school.

               When his beloved younger brother Allie died, Holden went crazy and destroyed the garage windows with his bare fists. I’ve never had such a traumatic event happen to me, so the closest I’ve ever gotten to going crazy is yelling at my siblings for losing or breaking my belongings.

               In this chapter, Holden’s hatred for phoniness is further established. Holden’s dorm is in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing in Pencey. Ossenburger is a Pencey alumnus who got rich from the undertaking business. Holden questions whether he even buries bodies properly and considers making money off of someone else’s death to be phony. Another phony alarm that went off was when Ossenburger claimed that he often conversed with Jesus, which further led to Holden’s dislike towards him.  Another example of phoniness was when Holden revealed his dislike towards Stradlater for being a secret slob. He didn’t approve of how Stradlater would make himself very presentable in public while neglecting his personal private hygiene. An example of this neglect is Stradlater’s old and crusty razor.

               Holden was really uncomfortable with Stradlater dating Jane Gallagher. Yes, it’s obvious that it’s because Holden also likes Jane, but is there a deeper reason? I believe that it’s because Holden remembers her as an innocent girl whom he used to play checkers with. Since he remembers her as an innocent girl, he has trouble associating her with the handsome and sexually-experienced Stradlater.

               While reading these chapters, I started to ask myself, “How reliable is Holden’s narration?” I’m starting to see that his point of view is extremely biased. When Stradlater refuses to tell Holden whether he had sex with Jane in the car, Holden narrates it as if Stradlater was a big jerk. However, it’s actually quite respectable of Stradlater to be protecting Jane’s privacy by keeping quiet. The reliability of Holden’s narration is further put into question when he claims to be an excellent liar at the beginning of chapter 3.

               Based on his disapproval of the relationship between Stradlater and Jane, and his poor communication skills, I predict that Holden will get into some sort of fight with Stradlater in the next few chapters.

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The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Apakah isi dari buku yang digadang-gadang menjadi dalang pembunuhan John Lennon  yang dilakukan oleh Mark David Chapman? Sebelum menembak John, Mark sempat meminta tanda tengan John di novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ karya J. D. Salinger miliknya. Satu tahun setelahnya, percobaan pembunuhan Ronald Reagan oleh John Hinckley, Jr. Terungkap. Polisi menemukan novel yang sama di apartemen milik John Hinckley, Jr. Hal inilah yang membuatku penasaran dan ingin segera membaca habis novel tersebut. Awalnya ku pikir, novel ini bernuansa dark atau semacamnya tentang pembunuhan. Ternyata tidak begitu.

Novel ini bercerita tentang seorang anak berusia 16 tahun bernama Holden Caulfield yang baru saja dikeluarkan dari sekolahnya, Pencey. Ini merupakan kali keempat Holden dikeluarkan dari sekolah. Holden dikeluarkan karena ia tidak lulus dari hampir seluruh mata pelajaran yang ia ambil. Sebelumnya Holden memang sudah sering diperingati untuk mendaftarkan ulang dirinya pada beberapa mata pelajaran tersebut. Namun, Holden sendiri merasa ia tidak membutuhkan kelulusan dari beberapa mata pelajaran tersebut. Ia hanya ingin meluangkan waktunya pada hal-hal yang ia inginkan saja, seperti pada mata pelajaran bahasa Inggris. Holden memang tertarik kepada sastra dan sering membaca beberapa buku yang menurutnya menarik.

Sebetulnya Holden secara resmi baru dikeluarkan pada hari Rabu dan memutuskan pulang ke rumahnya pada hari yang sama. Namun, ia terlibat masalah dengan teman sekamarnya, Ward Stradlater tepat 5 hari sebelum hari Rabu. Dengan adanya masalah tersebut, ditambah suasana sekolah, asrama, dan teman-temannya yang menyebalkan membuat Holden tidak sabar untuk segera meninggalkan Pencey. Holden terpaksa memikirkan tempat-tempat persinggahan untuk mengulur waktu agar ia datang ke rumah di waktu yang tepat. Di perjalanan tersebut Holden bertemu beberapa orang-orang baru, maupun orang-orang yang telah lama ia kenal.

Gaya bahasa yang digunakan pada novel ini sangat mudah dipahami, meskipun pembaca seperti saya memerlukan adaptasi karena terdapat beberapa vocabulary yang merupakan bahasa percakapan orang Amerika yang bukan bahasa resmi, seperti ‘flits’ yang berarti homosexual, ‘for Chrissake’ yang umumnya ditulis ‘for Christ sake’ atau ‘Helluva’ yang umumnya ditulis ‘Hell of-‘. Tetapi umumnya novel ini sangat ringan untuk dibaca dan hampir tak perlu membuka halaman sebelumya untuk memahami ulang apa yang terjadi. Salinger menuliskan novelnya dengan sudut pandang orang pertama menurut tokoh utama novel, yang tidak lain adalah Holden Caulfield sendiri. Selain percakapan-percakapan Holden dengan lawan bicaranya, novel ini sangat dipenuhi narasi pandangan Holden tentang orang lain bahkan lamunan-lamunan kecil tentang masa lalu atau objek mati ketika ia sedang melamun ataupun menunggu aktivitas lain.

"You know that song 'If a body catch a body comin' through the rye'? I'd like—"

"I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little 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 come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd 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. I know it's crazy."

Potongan novel tersebut menurutku cukup menggambarkan bagaimana pikiran Holden Caulfield. Menurutnya lebih baik melakukan hal-hal yang dicintainya meskipun menurut orang lain tidak bertujuan dan tidak berati dari pada mengikuti apa yang umumnya dilakukan semua orang, namun hanya berisi kemunafikan. Seperti apa yang Holden jelaskan tentang seorang pengacara sebelum potongan novel diatas. Seseorang umumnya ingin menjadi pengacara karena pekerjaan itu menghasilkan banyak uang untuk membeli rumah mewah, makan enak, dan bermain golf. Semua itu tidak didasari dari keinginannya membela orang tak bersalah dalam pengadilan.

Meskipun aku sempat menunda untuk menyelesaikan novel ini karena terlalu pointless di bagian awal novel, sebetulnya novel ini penuh arti. Bagiku novel ini membawa suasana nostalgia beberapa tahun lalu ketika masih SMA dulu. Bagaimana pria yang tak populer di suatu sekolah merasa tidak cocok bahkan merasa muak dengan apa yang terjadi disekelilingnya dan memilih untuk tidak mengikuti tren. Novel ini mengungkap bahwa pembangkangan tidak selamanya seperti yang biasa dipandang oleh kebanyakan orang. Orang-orang hanya tidak mengerti apa yang dipikirkan pembangkang. Akhir kata, aku cukup menyesal tidak membaca novel ini lima tahun lebih awal.