Author's Voice

Option one

                On Page 165 and page 167 Holden has snuck home and is in his sister’s room talking to her. She gets very frustrated at him when she finds out that Holden got kicked out of another school. You truly hear the voice being demonstrated in this part of the novel. His sister says to Holden “You didn’t get kicked out or anything” she says this on page 165 and it’s very clear that she is frustrated with Holden in this moment Holden is really trying to say no I didn’t get kicked out but she makes him admit the truth. Through this leads to his sister getting mad but right at the end of the chapter she said something to Holden that I think sank very deep with him “Why did you do it” This seems to hurt Holden he even said that he couldn’t believe that she said that. He said that she can really be a brat sometimes and seems to try and just put this moment off in his head but I really don’t think that’s the truth. He always talked pretty positively and highly about his sister and Holden did seem to really like her so when he starts attacking her it was pretty surprising. To me this part is going to be a fork in the road, it’s the last straw for Holden and his struggles. So when I read this scene and his sister says that comment “Why did you do it” is just such a huge amount of voice to me. It’s like the author put this scene/line in the book just to show to not give up, that this is the point where Holden is coming out, he’s not slumping anymore, he’s coming to the surface and is going to start being the person he is supposed to be.

Vignette Option 3

Have you ever found that spot in the world that you just never want to leave? That place is not easily found but once you found it you just know. Mine starts with a left turn on an old road called the Ontario 540. You go up this tiny little rocky hill with pine trees on both side of you. Then there's a big opening with 2 camper spots to the right. One to the left, an outhouse a little father down and then just a little bit farther a 3 nice bunke's put in for people to sleep in. Everything is surrounded in all different kinds of tree's anywhere from pine's, to birch tree's. There is a boat house back behind everything thing and then another one down a trail we made to the left of the other boat house. But in the right center of our hidden land there is the main cabin. Sitting through  the cold winters, and the piping hot summers, being seen by nobody hidden in its own little cocoon of tree's. The best tree's are the white birches that stick out and are more apparent than any tree's there. Around our cabin's there aren't too many but there is a trail right down the road for four wheeler's that we go on a lot. I love this place and wish i could stay forever hidden by the huge tree's and sleeping in are red cabin. Right on the biggest fresh water island in the world. Manatoulin Island.  

Many vignette

In chapter 16, Holden has a scene where he is talking about an old museum that he went to when he was younger. The part that stuck out to me was the way Holden was talking, I had never seen him say so many positive things that weren't followed by a negative comment right after. Even the ones that were pretty negative ended up being followed by a positive. Holden is not typically a very positive guy and as the book has gone on he has seemed to get worse but on page 120 of Catcher and the Rye "It smelled like it was raining outside, even when it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cozy place in the world. I loved that ---- museum." right here you see that Holden really does have a nice positive memory of this place, he tells you why and lets the positive out weigh the negative and that was just very unlike him.