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Read and annotate the following passage, which is the introduction of J.D. Salinger's novel, Catcher in the Rye. (You will see commentary from your virtual peers, too. Feel free to respond thoughtfully to their annotations, as well, disagreeing or building on their ideas.)

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At the end of the passage, imagine if you were assigned to write an essay analyzing the speaker, Holden Caulfield. Write a thesis statement in the comments to address this prompt.

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. They’re quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They’re nice and all - I’m not saying that - but they’re also touchy as hell. Besides, I’m not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I’ll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out and take it easy. I mean that’s all I told D.B. about, and he’s my brother and all. He’s in Hollywood. That isn’t too far from this crumby place, and he comes over and visits me practically every weekend. He’s going to drive me home when I go home next month maybe. He just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand bucks. He’s got a lot of dough, now. He didn’t use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was ‘The Secret Goldfish.’ It was about this little kid that wouldn’t let anybody look at his goldfish because he’d bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he’s out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.

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Anthony L Anthony L (Sep 24 2020 3:51PM) : The narrator does not think very highly of their childhood
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 25 2020 1:12PM) : How do we know? Cite his specific word choice.
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Gianna C Gianna C (Sep 22 2020 12:21PM) : The narrator lives not far from Hollywood, so somewhere in California
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 22 2020 6:09PM) : He is "staying" in California. Somewhere where his brother has to come to visit him and drive him home if he's allowed to go home "next month maybe."
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Where I want to start is the day I left Pencey Prep. Pencey Prep is the school that’s in Agertown, Pennsylvania. You probably heard of it. You’ve probably seen the ads, anyway. They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hot-shot guy on a horse jumping over a fence. Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time. I never even once saw a horse anywhere near the place. And underneath the guy on the horse’s picture, it always says: ‘Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men’. Strictly for the birds. They don’t do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school. And I didn’t know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking and all. Maybe two guys. If that many. And they probably came to Pencey that way.

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Gianna C Gianna C (Sep 22 2020 12:22PM) : Goes to a private school?
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DMU Timestamp: August 14, 2020 20:51

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Gianna C Gianna C (Sep 22 2020 12:25PM) : Blunt more

The narrator is blunt and a little bit rude especially towards his brother

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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 22 2020 6:09PM) : Yes. He's very judgmental.
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Anthony L Anthony L (Sep 24 2020 3:51PM) : The character in this passage judges many things, including their parents, their brother, and Hollywood movies
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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 25 2020 1:12PM) : What does this suggest about his character?
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