Catcher / 1-5

Thanks for all of the contributions to the blog this year!
Fourth quarter kicks off with The Catcher in the Rye.

When you blog, be sure to start off with the letter of the prompt.
If you're addressing multiple prompts, use multiple letters.
If you're responding to someone else's thoughts, please continue to use the letters.

A. “Steak.” What a racket. (pg. 35)
The other phony meat? Explain this carnivorous criticism.

B. Why did Holden write Stradlater's essay?

C. Do you think that people isolate themselves from society or
does society isolate them?

D. Why is the fire hydrant described as being white?

E. Is Stradlater considered a bad kid by today's standards?

F. Does Holden's unreliability as a narrator skew the audience's view of Ackley? How?

G. What is the rhetorical purpose behind Allie's red hair, and why does Holden decide to continuously point out how red it is?

H. Why does HC want to leave school?

I. Is lying justified if it is done to make someone else happy?
(address situational ethos)

J. One will forsake their family to fit in with friends (think Allie).
Explain this paradox. Could you be capable of doing that?
What would drive you to it?