The Catcher In The Rye
1. What is the time and place of the book? What evidence is the book tells you this?
Ans: This book was written in 1945 and the place it was written is Pennsylvanian. I got it from the introduction pages also the first pages tells the most about the book.
2. Name and Describe the main character in the book. Describe him/her physically and describe his/her personality and history, if known. Then give your impression of him/her.
Ans: The main character is name is Holden. He is skinny and physically weak. He usually wears his red hunting hat. Holden usually thinks that things are absurd and there's no explanation for it. He does silly nonsense things. Holden is shallow and strange to me. I have never seen anyone has bizarre thoughts and actions like that.
3. Name and describe a secondary character. Describe her/him physically and describe her/his personality and history, if known. Explain how s/he is important to the story and the ideas of the book.
Ans: Holden has a roommate whose name is Straddler. He's really good looking, with a big muscular body, and love himself so much.
4. Ans: I'd like to compare Holden and his society. He's a bizarre person. Thinking that everything around is annoying, ugly and hateful, Holden doesn't care about anything. Even he is expelled from school, he doesn't really give a crap about that. He doesn't care about future too. While people in the society around him are opposite. They care about things more, and don't have that strange thoughts like him. Holden isolate himself from the society, and that makes him feel really lonesome sometimes.
5. Ans: An important event of the book is when Holden is expelled from Pencey Prep. Because that happened, Holden decides to go home, and hide from his parents for few days so they will get cooler when he meets them.
6. Ans: That makes the readers understand the main character more through his thoughts. That makes the readers understand the main character more through his thoughts.
7. Ans: I feel curious and strange, usually. I always wonder about the thoughts and actions that Holden has. He's really impulsive, immature, silly and odd.
8. Ans: Because the first part of the book confused me, I have used different resources to help me. Dictionary.com explained to me the definitions of words that I did not know. Spark notes helped me understand the plot better from text to video summaries as well as explanations of the characters found in the book.
9. Ans: Ackley took another look at my hat... "Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That's a deer shooting hat." "Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat."
This is when Holden comes back at the dorm and talk to Ackley. The way he says it shows his independence and individuality. Obviously, he's not gonna shoot people with the hat. But he "shoots" people in another way, his own way. He hates people, hates this bitter lonely inhospitable world, and things around are ugly and absurd.
10. Ans: Broad answer kind of like a brainstorm this question is answered in group.
Ans: This book was written in 1945 and the place it was written is Pennsylvanian. I got it from the introduction pages also the first pages tells the most about the book.
2. Name and Describe the main character in the book. Describe him/her physically and describe his/her personality and history, if known. Then give your impression of him/her.
Ans: The main character is name is Holden. He is skinny and physically weak. He usually wears his red hunting hat. Holden usually thinks that things are absurd and there's no explanation for it. He does silly nonsense things. Holden is shallow and strange to me. I have never seen anyone has bizarre thoughts and actions like that.
3. Name and describe a secondary character. Describe her/him physically and describe her/his personality and history, if known. Explain how s/he is important to the story and the ideas of the book.
Ans: Holden has a roommate whose name is Straddler. He's really good looking, with a big muscular body, and love himself so much.
4. Ans: I'd like to compare Holden and his society. He's a bizarre person. Thinking that everything around is annoying, ugly and hateful, Holden doesn't care about anything. Even he is expelled from school, he doesn't really give a crap about that. He doesn't care about future too. While people in the society around him are opposite. They care about things more, and don't have that strange thoughts like him. Holden isolate himself from the society, and that makes him feel really lonesome sometimes.
5. Ans: An important event of the book is when Holden is expelled from Pencey Prep. Because that happened, Holden decides to go home, and hide from his parents for few days so they will get cooler when he meets them.
6. Ans: That makes the readers understand the main character more through his thoughts. That makes the readers understand the main character more through his thoughts.
7. Ans: I feel curious and strange, usually. I always wonder about the thoughts and actions that Holden has. He's really impulsive, immature, silly and odd.
8. Ans: Because the first part of the book confused me, I have used different resources to help me. Dictionary.com explained to me the definitions of words that I did not know. Spark notes helped me understand the plot better from text to video summaries as well as explanations of the characters found in the book.
9. Ans: Ackley took another look at my hat... "Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That's a deer shooting hat." "Like hell it is." I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. "This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat."
This is when Holden comes back at the dorm and talk to Ackley. The way he says it shows his independence and individuality. Obviously, he's not gonna shoot people with the hat. But he "shoots" people in another way, his own way. He hates people, hates this bitter lonely inhospitable world, and things around are ugly and absurd.
10. Ans: Broad answer kind of like a brainstorm this question is answered in group.
The Catcher in The rye - vocab
1. Lousy: terrible, bad.
2. Snotty: having a runny nose.
3. Lonesome: feeling of lonely.
4. Moron: A person who is super dumb just like a child/kid.
5. Lavish: generous.
6. Nosy: excessively curious or annoying.
7. Phony: something fake.
8. Corny: outdated.
9. Corridor: hallway.
10: Sore: feeling pain.
11. Ostracize: expel from a team or group.
12. Sadistic: deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another.
13. Rile: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.
14. Recuperate: restore to good health or strength.
15. Nonchalant: marked by blithe unconcern.
16. Gory: covered with blood.
17. Complicate: make more complicated.
18. Incognito: without revealing one's identity.
19. Fascinate:to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.
20. Rostrum: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
21. Aggravate: to make worse.
22. Pacifist: someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.
23. Convertible: designed to be changed from one use or form to another.
24. Qualm: uneasiness about the fitness of an action.
25. Liberate: grant freedom to; free from confinement.
26. Suave: having a sophisticated charm.
27. Ironic: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is.
28. Fracture: breaking of hard tissue such as bone.
29. Burlesque: a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns.
30. Chuckle: a soft partly suppressed laugh.
31. Chisel: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge.
32. Lagoon: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
33. Annex: attach to.
34. Monotonous: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch.
35. Imitate: reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
36. Exhibitionist: a performer; one who seeks attention.
1. Lousy: terrible, bad.
2. Snotty: having a runny nose.
3. Lonesome: feeling of lonely.
4. Moron: A person who is super dumb just like a child/kid.
5. Lavish: generous.
6. Nosy: excessively curious or annoying.
7. Phony: something fake.
8. Corny: outdated.
9. Corridor: hallway.
10: Sore: feeling pain.
11. Ostracize: expel from a team or group.
12. Sadistic: deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another.
13. Rile: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.
14. Recuperate: restore to good health or strength.
15. Nonchalant: marked by blithe unconcern.
16. Gory: covered with blood.
17. Complicate: make more complicated.
18. Incognito: without revealing one's identity.
19. Fascinate:to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.
20. Rostrum: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
21. Aggravate: to make worse.
22. Pacifist: someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.
23. Convertible: designed to be changed from one use or form to another.
24. Qualm: uneasiness about the fitness of an action.
25. Liberate: grant freedom to; free from confinement.
26. Suave: having a sophisticated charm.
27. Ironic: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is.
28. Fracture: breaking of hard tissue such as bone.
29. Burlesque: a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns.
30. Chuckle: a soft partly suppressed laugh.
31. Chisel: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge.
32. Lagoon: a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral.
33. Annex: attach to.
34. Monotonous: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch.
35. Imitate: reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
36. Exhibitionist: a performer; one who seeks attention.