GumbyandPokey

GumbyandPokey

Death/kill/die

Ryan and Max


 * __Prewriting__**

1) It first comes up when Stradlater asks Holden to write his composition for him. It shows how Holden feels throughout the story about Allie and how angry he gets when people talk down upon his brother. For example, "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." Once Stradlater came back he gets ticked off about what Holden wrote. Immediately after, they get into a huge fight and Stradlater punches him square in the face. Another example is when he gets in a tussle with Maurice. "Maurice opened the doors, he'd start screaming at me, in this very high-pithced, yellow-belly voice, to leave him alone. But I'd plug him anyway. Six shots through his fat hairy belly." (104)

2) When this motif shows up, he becomes very up tight and upset. When Stradlater isn't satisfied with Holden's composition, he becomes very protective over his feelings and unleashes on him. He can't control his emotions and it came down to the point where Stradlater had to punch him in the face to calm him down.

3) In certain areas of the book Holden is alone when he comes into contact with this motif, such as the night his brother dies he loses his control of his emotions and breaks all the windows in the garage. There are moments in which he is with people who end up on the conversation with death or leads to death some how puts him in a violent mood. He ends up getting into a fight or think about killing someone.

4) or 5) I think that this motif shows that Holden is mentally disturbed. The death of his brother affected the way he lives and acts. I think that his brother was his little "security blanket" when he was growing up. When his parents weren't around or wasn't there for him, i feel that he always went to Allie for some down time. Now that Allie is no longer with him, he looks for other ways to ease his problems. He looks for sex, alcohol, and lies about everything just so he can get through his day. He is using excuses and lies just to make himself feel better since there is no one else around him to do that for him. I think that can relate to the nuns and why he liked them so much. I think he feels that they made him feel good about himself which was why he liked them and was always looking out for them.

Thesis: Holden's brother's death affects his mental state in both his past and his future because he has not fully recovered from his death.

**I.** **Introduction** a. Hook- Everyone reacts to death in different ways, sometimes not always in a good way. b. .Thesis - Holden's brother's death affects his mental state in both his past and his future because he has not fully recovered from his death. i. main 1 - Friend Relationships ii. main 2- Family relationships iii. main3 - Romantic relationships

**II.** **Body One (Avenue one/Main reason 1)** a. Supporting Detail One, including MLA citation i. Holden's relationship with Stradlater is fair because he can have a conversation, but is so affected by his brother that he kind of dislikes him. "I double dated with the bastard a couple of times, and i know what I'm talking about. He was unscrupulous, he really was." (Salinger 40) b. Supporting Detail Two, including MLA citation i. Holden's relationship with Ackley is bad because he hates what he does and how he can't compare him to his brother."He was always sort of a nasty guy. I wasn't too crazy about him to tell you the truth." (Salinger 19) c. Supporting Detail Three, including MLA citation i. Holden relationship with friends in general is not well because all he thinks about is his brother and if they can compare to him in all ways. "He was probably the only guy in the whole dorm besides me that wasn't at the game." (Salinger 19)

**III.** **Body Two (Avenue one/Main reason 2) linked with THESIS STATEMENT** a. Supporting Detail One, including MLA citation i. Holden feels so embarrassed that he is so scared to even see his own parents. "Some new guy I'd never seen was on the car, so I figured that if I didn't bump smack into my parents I'd be able to say hello to old Phoebe." (Salinger 157) b. Supporting Detail Two, including MLA citation i. After Holden's brother died, his mother couldn't look at him the same way or treat him the same way. c. Supporting Detail Three, including MLA citation i. Holden's father is disappointed because is always failing his classes and getting kicked out of school. When Phoebe finds out that Holden failed his classes her immediate reaction is that her father will be pissed. "Daddy I'll kill you." (Salinger 166)

**IV.** **Body Three (Avenue one/Main reason 3) linked with THESIS STATEMENT** a. Supporting Detail One, including MLA citation i. Holden is not a very romantic person, on top of that it made it worst by his brother's death. b. Supporting Detail Two, including MLA citation i. He screwed up horrible with Sally because he is so messed up, just was not thinking clearly and made up this little situation about them. " Then, all of a sudden, I got this crazy idea."(Salinger 131) c. Supporting Detail Three, including MLA citation i. He was so messed up by his brother's death that he was too emotional and blew his cool. "Usually i never say crude things like that to girls."( Salinger 133)

**V.** **Conclusion** a. Restate thesis - i. Avenue one (Main reason 1) 1. Friend Relationships ii. Avenue two (Main reason 2) 1. Family relationships iii. Avenue three (Main reason 3) 1. romantic relationships iv. Concluding statement Death is something that occurs in everyone's life, its just a matter of how you handle it.

__**Rough Draft**__

Everyone reacts to death in different ways, sometimes not always in a good way. Holden's brother's death affects his mental state in both his past and his future because he has not fully recovered from his brothers death. __The Catcher in the Rye__ by J.D Salinger is a complex novel about a mentally disturbed child names Holden who tries to overcome his past and move on with his life. His social relationships are affected because he always compares his friends to his brother. He's uneasy with his parents and when it comes to romantic relationships, Holden is a mess. Between mental breakdowns and outrages, Holden tries to find peace in his disturbed world. A relationship with a friend is a special bond that people hold on to, unfortunately Holden does not feel the same way. Holden does not see friends but people for example, in Pency we meet Stradlater who Holden can strike a conversation up. Although he able to do this he is so mental disturbed that he doesn't really care about his person or his ways of doing things. "I double dated with the bastard a couple of times, and I know what I'm talking about. He was unscrupulous, he really was."(Salinger 40). Another character we meet at Pency who Holden shares a dislike for, Ackley. Ackley is a person who in Holden's mind is no one and is someone who complete annoyance to him.