Holden Quote

To me, the quote that Mrs. Jorgensen chose for Holden, fits him. I take it as "Walk to the bear of your own drummer" You know? 'Better is one's own duty imperfectly carried out than, following perfectly the law of another. Better is death in the fulfillment of one's own law, for to follow another's law is perilous.' I take this quote as, do what you want to do. Who cares about society.

I'm reading the book "Into The Wild" One quote that stood out to me was "Society, man! You know, society! Cause, you know what I don't understand? I don't understand why people, why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often. It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment. Control. All that, the whole spectrum. Well, it just..." This quote screams Holden to me. It's in a way saying "I don't understand why people are so phony all the time. Why can't people be normal?" That's just me, but when I picture Holden, I can see him asking himself the same questions that Chris asked. The control part in the quote is what really got me. Holden (to me) doesn't like control. He wants to do his thing, on his own time.

Holden

After reading chapters 8-11, I still think Holden is not a good person. I don't like how he lies, and stuff like that. But at the same time, I can see that he was changing. I don't really know how I feel about Holden right now. I'm on the fence about him still. I mean, I liked how Holden was all sensitive in chapter 5, and he seems like a nice person and all. I just don't know about him yet >.<

I'll just have to keep reading, and hope that I can pick a side. :)

Grief

After reading chapter 5, I started to think that Holden was close to his family. What gave me this thought was that it said "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it" Holden seemed to really care about Allie. I wasn't expecting to see Holden so vulnerable and sad. When I was finished reading chapter 5, I felt kinda sad. I know think of Holden differently. I can see him as this "normal" person who cries, and does normal human stuff. I feel like Holden still deals with Allies death because he has his baseball mitt, and so that might constantly remind him of Allie.

I can see a lot of grief in our society. Especially the grief with losing a loved one. I know how it feels. I feel like almost everyone does. I was a mess after my grandma died last summer. I didn't want to do anything, I just wanted to sleep. So I know how Holden felt kinda.

After reading the chapters that were assigned, I started to pass judgement on Holden. I began to think that Holden was annoying and very rude. I say he's rude because in chapter 2, when Holden went to visit Spencer, you saw how easily Holden get annoyed. So I feel like when he gets annoyed, he can get an attitude, just like any teenager. "I had to sit there and listen to that crap" That quote helps support my theory of him being rude. Yeah he was bored while talking to Spencer, but even when I'm bored, I don't think like that. I start to think about unicorns or something like that. Another quote that I found was "I'M THE MOST terrific liar you ever saw in your life" HE'S A LIAR! That adds to the whole bad boy thing. So that also makes Holden annoying because you can never tell if he's telling the truth or not. So I pass judgement on Holden. Maybe my opinion on Holden will change as I read on. Who Knows. :)