Notes on Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield is the main character
Is a troubled man and goes to Pensey prep
Has no Want for school and likes his prep school but still wants no part of it
Goes and talks to mr. Spencer where he tells Holden to try in school and gives him motivation
Chapter 4 introduces you to Ackley
He's a rather annoying character who is hated by most people at the prep school and most notably hated by Holden's roommate Stradlater
Holden and Stradlater talk and Stradlater tells Holden about a date he's going on with a girl named Jane Gallagher a girl that Holden has rather strong feelings for
Holden goes on an outing with Ackley and comes out with some news he tells Ackley about a girl that he has slept with and also talks about his younger brother Allie and how he died a couple years earlier from cancer and tells him how nice and smart he was showing how he is still sad about the loss
Tensions flare between Stradlater and Holden between school and his date they wrestle a little bit the. Stradlater gets mad and punches Holden in the nose
Holden leaves his school annoyed with Stradlater's actions and wants to run away with Ackley and join a monetary he leaves and doesn't go back
Holden gets on a train to new York and makes up a lie about who he is to a classmates mother
Holden goes to a night club his first night in new York and orders drinks and since he looks older he is able to pull it off
Holden takes a cab to another night club and in the cab he continues to talk to the cab driver
What is it with cab drivers that makes him so talkative with them?
Mad about things in his life he orders a prostitute and when she comes he says he's unable for sex because he has had surgery
Holden goes to meet his sister phoebe at the park but she isnt there and is at a school field trip
He also goes on a date with a girl he likes named Sally
Holden goes to visit his family at their apartment and sneaks in to find his sister Phoebe
He talks to his sister about his life and everything he has been doing lately

Don't Quit 9 elements

1. The dramatic situation is someone that's going through hard times but they need to stick it out and not quit and persevere through your struggles.
2. The structure is in a way of rhyming words and breaking them a certain words.
3. The theme is to not give up no matter what and to not quit no matter how hard things get.
4. The grammar used are words that help you stay motivated trough hard times.
5. Figurative speech are rhyming in order to keep the person interested ad metaphors are used to show hard times.
6. Diction of words like not quitting and never giving up are key words in the poem.
7. Tone is very motivating in order to keep you there and not giving in to a rough road.
8. The rhetorical devices used would be metaphors and rhythm and rhyming.
9. I have not taken notes on that term yet and my partner didn't have them so I don't know what to write for prosity.

Ap test expectations

The test on the 3 essays was not as difficult as I expected. I did expect it to be all about main characters and their experiences in the novel. Nothing was much unexpected I wouldn't think but I did find it difficult to manage my time with a short period of time. I learned that the ap essay topics don't want specific details but rather your feelings or what you got from a character. I felt my performance in the clutch was rather good I don't crumble under pressure and can usually focus when I need to.

Tale of Two Cities

Manchester was the 3rd city involved
In 1857 Dickens assisted in writing and acted in the play The Frozen Deep
There's a sort of parallelism between A Tale of Two Cities and The Frozen Deep
In 1858 he became known as the greatest reader of the greatest writer
Was inspired to write Tale of Two Cities from his childhood growing up in London
London and Paris are the two cities
Was written around the French Revolution
Dickens didn't really like the revolution but interesting enough incorporated it all in the novel Tale of Two Cities
when he visited Paris he thought it was the most amazing place and he visited it more then 15 times
The novel came out chapter by chapter not all at once
Many of the characters in the novel were based off of real life people Dickens knew

Why he wrote it

Charles Dickens wrote the novel Great Expectations in order to depict not only his life but the life of a orphan or poor person in England At that time. Pip is supposed to represent Dickens lifestyle and the struggles that he went through. I also think that maybe he wrote it so that it could inspire other poor people to do something with their lives, since the novel was written in the language of the poor maybe he wanted to teach them something.

Great Expectations (study questions)

1) Why does Pip insist on helping this convict out when he could easily just leave him there chained?
2) Why does Pip suddenly regret helping the convict?
A: He regrets helping him out because he thinks maybe he might get in trouble with the law.
3) Why do the police bust into the house?
A: Not to arrest Pip but for Joe to fix their handcuffs.
4) Why doesn't the convict "throw Pip under the bus" why does he protect him?
5) Why is Estella so rude to Pip?
A: She does not approve of his low social class.
6) Why does Pip lie to Joe about what happened at the mansion?
A: He does it to seem cool but feels guilty and tells Joe the truth later.
7) Why does Joe give Pip a pep talk?
A: He wants Pip to be successful in life.
8) Why does Pip decide to try much more in school?
A: He is taking Joe's advice to heart.
9) Why is Pip forced I fight the man at Estella's house?
10) Why does it seem like Estella hates everyone?

Great Expectations

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is one of the few story's that depict Charles Dickens actual life he loved when he was growing up. He grew up as a young boy who fought poverty often. The story begins in England where a boy named Philip Pirrip (Pip) is described as a poor orphan boy, much like Charles Dickens childhood. Pip is looking at his parents gravestones in the graveyard when suddenly a man in chains grabs him and forces Pip to bring him food and something to cut through his chains. All of these thigs that happen in the beginning of this story make you think what kind of life Charles Dickens actually led. This makes you also think what parts of his life did he also include into his other novels because he lived such a different life that maybe there are other parts of his life he includes in his other great novels.