Good Morning!
Several steps to your blogging directions today:
1. Add a "comment" to this post that includes a 3-4 sentence description of your literary criticism topic.
2. On your blog, create a new post that includes FIVE characteristics you found in the 4 literary criticisms you read this weekend.
3. Finally, write a paragraph that summarizes the lit crit you found to be most intersting, and detail why you thought it was the most interesting of the articles.
As always, read and comment on 3 of your classmates posts or lit crit topics.
Happy Monday!
The topic that I'll be focusing on for my literary criticism will be the pond in central park. I want to focus on this as my topic because it has such a deep meaning in the book and is also one of the biggest symbols in the book. I think the pond will provide an intresting literary criticism.
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DeleteI think that since the pond was such a huge symbol in the novel you will have no problem writing a great literary criticism about it. Good choice, Mary!;)
DeleteFor my literary critisim I am planning on doing the youth of holden. He is transitioning into adulthood and this makes him act certain ways through our the book and is a major theme/factor in the book. Especially since his childhood was robbed by death and possible abuse, his way of thinking is slightly screwd.
ReplyDeleteThis relates to my topic because he is obsessed with innocence because his was stolen from him.
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DeleteMy literary criticism will focus on Holden and his side of the story vs. the truth. I will focus on portions where he tells us one thing, but another side seems more believable. This is because a) he claims to be a liar b) these events took place a long time before he wrote them.
ReplyDeleteMy topic is going to be innocence and how Holden is obsessed with it. It seems as if his happiest points in the book are the ones where he sees a young child doing something sweet and innocent. For example, he loves seeing the little kid walking in the street singing "should a body catch a body". Also, he hates the fact that the "f- you"'s are written on the wall in the school for all the kids to see. He doesn't want their innocence and childishness to be ruined by this.
ReplyDeleteMy literary topic is about Holden's depression. It is how his deppression affects his behavior. I chose this topic because I have a lot of evidence to back me up on how his depression has made him isolated, short tempered, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe topic I will be focusing on for my literary criticism is that Phoebe is Holden's "catcher." Holden fantacizes about being the catcher in the rye and how he's going to stop kids before they make "the fall." I think that what Holden doesn't realize is that Phoebe is the one who helps him avoid his own fall.
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DeleteMy criticism is going to be about innocence through the story. I think that innocence has a big impact on the book and is a big focus. It also takes part in Holden's mental issues.
ReplyDeleteBe a bit more specific - Holden's innocence? Phoebe's? Then run with it
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ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism will be about how Holden talks to girls. It is important to the book because he talks to a lot of different girls. I think that it's an interesting topic.
ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism is on Holden's inability to deal with his past and its effect on his future. There are many examples during the book that Holden can learn from his past and make a better decision because of it. He could avoid previous mistakes and become a better person.
ReplyDeleteChris, I think that is a good topic because it is so true. If he learned where lying and running away gets him, he would realize what he needed to do to change it. Good idea man.
DeleteThis is a great topic to write about, nice choice. Holden really does have a problem dealing with his past. He definetely could avoid mistakes and at least try to change himself and his future.
DeleteMy topic is going to be focused on the use of symbolism in the book. Rather than focusing on one symbol, I will discuss the importance of using all the symbols that Sallinger puts in ther book.
ReplyDeleteThe will be pretty broad, so the paper may get lengthy, but give it a shot.
DeleteFor my literary criticism I will focus on Holden's behavior with children vs. adults. His behaviors contrast and it will be interesting to analyze the way he acts. He seems mature around children, like the children in the museum, but he is very immature and phony when it comes to being around adults.
ReplyDeleteMy topic for the lit crit will be the lack of communication between Holden and others results in his "fall" and the lack of connection with people. Because Holden never expressed how he feels this caused his "fall." Plus, Holden was isolated from groups and he never reached out to anyone.
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DeleteMy topic for the literary criticism is rejection. Holden rejects people due to his own fear of rejection. This fear of rejection also leads to Holden's isolation and parts of his depression. I don't think that Holden would have this fear of rejection if he didn't reject people in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of my literary criticism of The Catcher in the Rye is innocence. I chose this topic because protecting innocence really jumped out to me as the main idea of Holden's journey. Holden has no problem talking to Phoebe, the little girl in the ice skates, and the two little kids who went to go see a movie, because they resemble innocence.
ReplyDeleteFor my literary criticism I will write about innocence. Im going to write about this because it shows up through out the whole book. From all the F you's, to the carousel, to phoebe in general. I think this will be good topic
ReplyDeleteBe a bit more specific - Holden preserving innocence, lack of innocence, etc.
DeleteMy literary criticsm will be about Holden's depression. It greatly affects his everyday life, and causes him to make bad decisions because of it.
ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism is loneliness. He doesn't really click with anyone in the book, but he still doesn't want to be alone and calls people up while he's in New York
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DeleteSella, thats a great theme to use because in the start of the book, he wants some sort of good bye. Yet at the end he seems to want to just be alone. And throughout the novel looks for ways to fill the loneliness, whether through Phoebe or a prostitute.
DeleteMy topic for the literary criticism will be failure. Almost anything Holden tried to start in this book he never finished. From failing out of school to trying to get girls.
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DeleteMy topic is Hypocritism. Holden tends to call everybody phonies and liars. Even though he's the biggest phony and liar of them all. I think Holden is a hypocrite because he doesn't take his own advice.
ReplyDeleteThe topic I will be focusing on is Holden's desire to keep things the same. He enjoys looking at the statues at the museum because they never change. This is one of the ways Holden tries to protect the innocence of others.
ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism will encompass the themes of innocence and corruption in the novel, and how Holden identifies them. There are multiple symbols for both, and Holdens strange outlook on the world around him expose them. For example, Pheobe would symbolize innocence, while Maurice would symbolize Holden's corrupt adult world. Both innocence and the corrupt adult world take a huge toll on Holden's life.
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Deletekonrad, what are you writing about?! haha no thats a good idea. It makes you think of what else he truely thinks is innocent and what is corrupt. Persay des he think at all underage drinking is corrupt?... nice bud
DeleteMy literary criticism will focus on how Holden’s society isn’t aware of what to do with troubled children or even notice a child in need of help. Not many people will listen to Holden, while he is just holding a conversation or when he is asking a question so they won’t see signs that he is in need of help. People who deal with him on an everyday basis don’t realize that he is a kid who needs some attention and help to keep moving forward.
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DeleteMy literary criticism is going to focus on the reoccuring theme of Holden's good morals taking precedent over virtually every situation he comes to in the novel. Holden, with his misanthropic idea's on everything and everyone gets him in sticky situations but it seems that ultimately, Holden has strong moral values that keep him a grounded, normal teenager.
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Delete“If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye,”
ReplyDeleteMy topic is going to be how Holden is the "catcher" and how he saves children from the "fall". More specifically, how Holden views innocence and how he aims to save children, particularly Phoebe, from "falling" and loosing her innocence. Also, about how Holden misinterprets the song the boy was singing and how it's actually about sex. This is ironic because he wants to "save" children from entering the adult world and having knowledge of such thing.
I am going to write my lit crit on Holden's relationship with women.The immature one mainly and the way he talks to them. This is important because he meets/ talks to a lot of girls and women and shows how mature and immature he is. Also it connects to innocence in a sense, and staying a child.
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DeleteI think this is a great topic for a literary criticism. It reflects many of Holden's traits. This is a good and creative idea.
DeleteMy literary criticism will be on the theme of immaturity. Holden is (at times) very immature, and he often has to deal with immaturity. There is also an overall hypocrisy with how Holden reacts towards to immaturity.
ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism is going to be about bars. More specifically, the bars that Holden travels to during his travels in New York. This will include how they affect his mental health, not only in how the alcohol/denial-of-alcohol effected him, but also how he was treated by the people inside of them and how it changes his mental health. I think that this is a legitimate topic and shouldn't be denied just because it isn't about Holden's depression, or the "catcher". I'm choosing to be more creative, therefore giving myself a challenge of writing my literary criticism. I don't why, but I just felt the need to spend some time justifying it. Because it is so different from everybody else's. So um. Yeah. That's it.
ReplyDeleteMy literary criticism will be about innocence, Holden's lack of it and how he tries to preserve Phoebe's. Holden wants to protect Phoebe from "the fall" and doesn't want her innocence to be taken away from her. His was taken away from him maybe earlier than it should've been by death and he doesn't want Phoebe to end up like him. Holden seems seems happiest talking to children and is pleased by their innocence.
ReplyDeleteI changed mine to his depression messes up his relationships with adults, kids, and friends
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