Blog 10: Call to the Author

From Activity I of the Wrap-Up on Catcher in the Rye, would you like to call J.D. Salinger/ one of J.D. Salinger's relatives? If you would, write a paragraph on what you would want to talk to him about and what you would say to or ask him. If not, write a paragraph about the reasons you would not want to talk to him.

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If I had the opportunity to call J.D. Salinger i probably would. If i called him my first question to him would be how he came up with the character Holden and how he executed the story in such an interesting way. Once he answered this question i would also ask why he decided to write this story. It seems to me that he wrote this book based of some hardships in his life, but the occurrences in the book seems like he probably stretched the truth which would classify his story as being Phony! J.D. seems like a very smart person for writing this story because of the fact that it caused a bit of commotion for some people. The next thing i would ask him would be if he expected his book to be as popular as it was/is. Also i would ask if he expected his book to be banded. I think if i called J.D. Salinger it would definitely
be an interesting conversation.

Blog 7: Ch. 12, Catcher: Conversation with Horowitz

In addition to providing a comic interlude, what seems to be the point of the scene with the cab driver, Horowitz? How do Holden and Horowitz differ, both in their conversation and as characters?

When Holden is in the cab with Horowitz he is looking to start-up a conversation. Once Holden starts really talking to Horowitz, Horowitz kind of thinks that Holden is a bit crazy in the head. Horowitz can also tell that Holden was not from around here because people usually don't decide to talk with a cab driver who is a complete stranger and you usually don't talk to strangers in the city.