catcher in the rye by jd salinger
*Starts off in a mental hospital somewhere near hollywood. Holden Caufield is the narrator and begins to tell the story through a flashback. His flashback starts off with him standing alone on a hill looking down on a football game. He was watching the game because he got home early from the fencing match because he left all of the teams gear on the subway (he was the manager for the team). Holden was waiting for an ending to his private highschool days at pency (he was kicked out because of the academic policy, he just wasn't up to par and failing out). So he leaves the football game and heads for Old Spencer's house his history teacher. He arrives at Old spencer's house and Mrs. Spencer answers the door and he asks her how Old Spencer is doing. *He goes into Old Spencer's room. Old Spencer explains to him why he had to fail him (because he knew nothing). He asks if he had seen Dr. Thurmer (the head guy at pencey) and holden tells him yeah and that he told him about how life was a game. Spencer plainly tells holden that thurmer is right. Then Spencer reads holden's paper he wrote about some egyption crap and aloudly reads the note that holden had written to him at the end of it. Spencer asks h
*Holden walks all the way back to the hotel. When he's in the elevator he agrees to have a hooker come to his room for five bucks with a guy named maurice. He then waits for her at his room and when she comes he decides he doesn't want to do anything with her so he pays her five bucks and she leaves *Holden wakes up in the moring and goes to a subway restaurant for food. He meets two nuns and donates to their charity and ends up having a pleasant conversation with them. Then holden arranges a date with sally hayes later for two o'clock that afternoon. He then goes to the park in hopes to see his sister phoebe, he didn't see her but he helped a kid put on their skates and it reminded him of a childhood memory. He then left from the park for his date wich he arrived early His date ends up going horrible and he asks sally to run away with him and she says no and leaves crying. *Holden reveals how much of a lyar he is. He didn't really have to go to the gym to check equipment he just wanted to get out of there. He then talks about where his room is at pencey and how its in a hall named after Ossinburger some fat guy who donated alot of money to the school. He remembers of the time when Edgar Marsalla fladulated loudly during some speach that ossiburger gave during church. He then made it to his room where he was happy to be (his room had two of everything) he sat down in a chair put on the hat he had bought earlier in new york and started to read Out Of Africa. Then as he had finished about three pages Ackley(a disgustingly poor hygenic guy who liked to pick at his pimples)came into the room. Ackley asked about Stradlater (holden's roomate) where he was and keeping tabs on him coz he hated him so much. Then stradlater asked to borrow holden's new houndstooth jacket and he acted like he was in a hurry to get all gussied up (he left his date sitting in the annex so he could get all fixed up) Then ackley decided to leave(basically because he couldn't stand stradlater) Then stradlater tells holden he's goin to the can to shave. *Holden is even more depressed by the hooker. He begins to talk to allie because that is something he does when he is really depressed. Then he goes and lies in bed and then he hears nocking at the door adn he knows its maurice. *Holden decides to go out for something to eat and see a movie with Mal Brossard and he invites Ackley to come along (Ackley takes about five hours to get ready) They leave and take a bus into Agerstown and he gets back to his room at about quarter to nine. He sits their and thinks of jean while Ackley lays on his bed and pillow and picks at his pimples then he leaves coz holden has to write that composition. Holden decides to write about his brother Allies baseball glove (Allie died of lukemia and the day he died holden punched out all of the windows of the garage and tried to with the car but they were too tough and he broke his hand now its week and he can't make a full fist) his brother's glove had poems written on each of the fingers to keep him buisy during the game because he played outfield.
Some common words found in the essay are:
Ackley Ackley, Ackley Stradlater, Dr Thurmer, Holden Caufield, Edgar Marsalla, , DB Don't, Spencer's Spencer, stradlater stradlater, five bucks, Mal Brossard, sits thinking jean, sits thinking, thinking jean, sat holden, sits watches, leaves holden, holden sits, stradlater tells, holden tells, five bucks holden,
Approximate Word count = 2294
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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