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The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a young man who is expelled a few times from prep schools. Now the word school can bring images to our minds of classrooms, studying, recess, and our forever favorite, lunch. If you drive by a school, you see brick and mortar, high walls, sprawling lawns and possibly, chain link fences. For the schools in this story, you can actually visualize in your mind those brick and mortar buildings with the sprawling lawns beautifully covered in snow. A stand out sy… Continue

The Catcher in the Rye story is being told in the first person by the main character named Holden Caulfield, and he appears to be telling his story from a hospital of sorts, recuperating from an illness. Holden takes us down the path of his life of why he was expelled multiple times from school, with elaboration on the final day at Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. When Holden is not in school, he resides with his wealthy family in New York City and that is where he finishes his story.

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I kicked off a group so that I could work with the older banned books. I did read To Kill A Mockingbird in high school but couldn’t tell you why. I feel I am a very open person and just didn’t realize there were so many books banned for the same few reasons… sex, language, religion and truth. What I had not planned on was discussing a common theme amongst the books I chose but I have to say it all worked out great in the end. Ruth, Caitlin and I will look at the common theme that these books hav… Continue

I have chosen to discuss three crises that result in climaxes in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The first, and what I believe to be the worst crisis to occur was between Clifford and the war. Clifford came home paralyzed from the hips down, forever changing him and the people around him. The crisis is the war and the horrific climax is Clifford’s paralysis. The moment we found out Clifford was paralyzed we felt such profound shock and sadness. An immediate thought was we now know Connie will have an a… Continue