Examples Of Dialectical Journal For Catcher In The Rye

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¨I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all.¨ this show also what some people go to. In this story catcher in the rye by J.D Salinger is about a guy name Holden who is going through a lot of thing in his life as he eventually start getting worse in his situation and how he call almost everyone ¨phony¨. Now I would said that in this story there are some thing that are still relevant to people, such as other people going through some rough time and some people plan to just run away from their own problems.

In this story in about page 52 he finally decided that he was finally going to leave pencey, but he then realize that he never gotten a proper goodbye from people and right about when he about to leave this is what he said¨I was sort of crying,I don't know why.¨. In this quote I think Holden was running away from the fact that he was really alone in pencey and that is why he never gotten a good goodbye. Basically this quote help with my thesis because it show how he feel depress and how people cry whenever it doesn't go the way they thought it would be.
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Whenever you are hanging around with someone and the moment they leave and then you hear a laughing around you, you feel like someone is probably talking about you making some gossip of the way you walk or the way you are

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