Sight: -it is full of ancient things made by the indians. -It has lots of animals. -was full of glass cases.
Hearing:-Miss Aiglentinger’s voice. -Peers’ voices and laughter.
Smell:-It smelled like rain in the auditorium.
Touch: -he could feel his partner´s hand. -The cold glass cases. -The auditorium felt warm and cozy.
Taste:-After the museum they went to get something to eat.
Holden is a really weird teenager. He likes to do things his own way, he is a rebel. I am pretty sure he has a longer list of people he hates than the people he loves. So far in the book he has mentioned at least two dozens characters, and he hates one dozen, one half of the other dozen are people that are indifferent to him and tho other half is his family so he sort of loves them. He is really wise and intelligent, although the fact that he flunk almost every class makes us think otherwise. He is a deep thinker and focuses on special characteristics about people, he does’t like phony people and tries to avoid that kind of people. He changes his mind pretty quickly, actually surprisingly quickly, that is why I think he is sort of impulsive and doesn’t always think what he does before he does it.
I think he is a sad person and he feels lonely, we could see that specially when he talks about his brother Allie and when he is at the hotel. The problem is he is such a complex teen who is hard to be understood. I’m sure most teenagers are that way, making everything in their heads a bigger deal than it need to be, thinking how miserable and alone we are that we don’t see the options and solutions there are, but that is just another phase. Pessimism, I would say that is the word that best describes his way of thinking, but in the bottom he has a big heart and a bright mind and he hasn’t had the chance to show it because of his stupid actions.
We all go through difficult times, no exceptions. Althouogh some challenges are harder than others and that depends on the abilites we hava to overcom the problem.
A recent challenge in my life was learning to drive. I am pretty nervous, specially when it comes to this. When I recieved my classes I barely knew how to start the car so I was even more anxious. I´m left handed and I don´t know how to do anything with my right (I can´t even grab a knife), so when I had to change velocities in the mechanic car it seemed pretty impossible to me. Whenever I have to do it my left hand whented to correct my right hand so I always ended up in the other lane. I hated those classes, I was useless. I finished them after a week and I was so glad but worried because I felt like I learned nothing, I was so nervous that my brain just didn´t answered and saved the information, it just did what was necessary for the moment.
I kept on practicing anyway (in an automatic car) and everytime I got better. Its is still hard because I can´t focuse in so many things at a time, I get easily distracted, but I already have my license. Now I drive to school and I drive to my extracurricular classes, I´m getting even better with so many cars and I feel more confident. Now I sing and dance like a crazy girl and still do things right, al though that makes my mother realy nervous, but I don´t feel like I am going to kill somebody while I drive.
Holden is the main character and narrator of The Catcher in The Rye, and in my perspective he is nothing but a typical teenager. Teenagers are known for their rebellious phase, and in the book Holden is going right through it; he has been expelled from Pencey Prep and before that he was expelled from another school. He smokes in his dorm, even when it is not allowed. He failed almost every class and he didn’t care at all. Holden was a trouble maker, and he was sort of pessimist and cynical about things, but most teens are that way after living what he went through. He looks for true friends and hate fake people and that is what most teens look for, although he lies most of the time. From what I mentioned before you can see he does what most teenagers do. Holden likes to do things his own way even if it is less effective, like flunk almost every class to get out of school instead of talking to his parents about going to another one. He gets jealous, anxious and nervous when he hears Stradlater is taking Jane on a date, and there are lots of teen boys that feel that way when a friend asks the girl he likes to go on a date. For those reasons I consider Holden a typical teenager, although he has very special and unique qualities and characteristics.
TEN ITERESTING FACTS ABOUT ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
1 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois – a suburb of Chicago that has also been home to Edgar Rice Burroughs.
2 Hemingway met J.D Salnger during World War II. Salinger was fighting with the 12th Infantry Regiment.
3 Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast, about his life in Paris in the 1920s, was not published until 1964.
4 Hemingway’s son, Patrick, worked as a big-game hunter and ran a safari business in Tanzania.
5 Hemingway only wrote one play called The Fifth Column and it is set during the Spanish Civil War.
6 Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery under-fire in World War II when he was a war correspondent.
7 Hemingway left trunks of material in the Paris Ritz in 1928 and did not recover them until 1957.
8 The FBI maintained an open file on Hemingway from World War II onwards.
9 Hemingway’s sister and brother, and also his father committed suicide as well.
10 Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary are buried in Ketchum’s town cemetery in Idaho.
1)
Hey girl it’s now or never, it’s now or never
Don’t overthink, just let it go
And if we get together, yeah get together
Don’t let the pictures leave your phone (oh oh)
[Niall:]
Yeah, we’ll be doing what we do
Just pretending that we’re cool, so tonight
[All]
Let’s go crazy, crazy, crazy ’till we see the sun
I know we only met but let’s pretend it’s love
And never, never, never stop for anyone
Tonight let’s get some and live while we’re young
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (wanna live while we’re young)
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Tonight let’s get some
I chose this verses from Live while we’re young, by One Direction because it represents the idea of haste. Thoreau says ” Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away”. They are hurrying (it´s now or never), but to live and have fun.
2)
In the middle of the night, when the angels scream,
I don’t want to live a lie that I believe.
Time to do or die.
I will never forget the moment, the moment.
I will never forget the moment, the moment.
And the story goes on… on… on…
That’s how the story goes.
That’s how the story goes.
You and I will never die.
It’s a dark embrace.
In the beginning was life, a dawning age.
Time to be alive.
I will never forget the moment, the moment.
I will never forget this night.
I chose these verses from Do or die, by Thirty Secons to Mars because I think they represent very well the idea of “sucking out the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if proved to mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meaness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion”. tHEY SAY “I don’t wan’t to live a lie that I believe” which I interpret as going beyond what they know and experience more, live a fuller life.
10 interesting facts of Walt Whitman:
1- He was the second son of Walt Whitman and Loisa Van Velsor and he had 8 siblings.
2-He worked as a printer in New York City.
3-When he was 17 he began working as a teacher in the school hoeses of Long Island.
4-In 1841 he began jorking as a journalist and founded a weekly newspaper called “Long-Islander”
5-the he began working as an editor in New York.
6-In 1855, Whitman took out a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass (self-published), which consisted of twelve untitled poems and a preface.
7-released a second edition of the book in 1856, containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Whitman in response
8-He wrote freelance journalism and visited the wounded at New York-area hospitals. He then traveled to Washington, D.C. in December 1862 to care for his brother who had been wounded in the Civil War.
9-Whitman chose to stay in Washington D.C. working as a clerk for the department of the Interior, which ended when the Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan, discovered that Whitman was the author of Leaves of Grass, which Harlan found offensive.
10-Whitman spent his declining years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book and preparing his final volume of poems and prose, Good-Bye, My Fancy (David McKay, 1891). After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemeter
see more at: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/126
Artists/ writers he influenced:
Bram Stoker
Roderick and Madeline Usher:
Roderick: he was a cadaverous man, with large eyes, thin but curvy lips. He had a delicate Hebrew model nose and a finely molded chin, with a ghastly pallor of the skin. He also has silky black hair ans an alternately vivacious voice.
Madeline: She was very sick and was distant, lonely and indifferent; almost like a ghost.
The Ushers and the House:
Both, the house and the Usher twins, were mysterious and kind of creepy. They seemed very dark and emotion less. All of them were slowly decaying and soon will die, well in the case of the house (since it is a material thing) it will be destroyed.
Moments- One Direction
Shut the door, turn the light off
I wanna be with you
I wanna feel your love
I wanna lay beside you
I cannot hide this even though I try
Heart beats harder
Time escapes me
Trembling hands touch skin
It makes this harder
And the tears stream down my face
If we could only have this life for one more day
If we could only turn back time
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Close the door
Throw the key
Don’t wanna be reminded
Don’t wanna be seen
Don’t wanna be without you
My judgement is clouded
Like tonight’s sky
Hands are silent
Voice is numb
Try to scream out my lungs
It makes this hard girl
And the tears stream down my face
If we could only have this life for one more day
If we could only turn back time
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Flashes left in my mind
Going back to the time
Playing games in the street
Kicking balls with my feet
Dancing on with my toes
Standing close to the edge
There’s a pile of my clothes
At the end of your bed
As I feel myself fall
Make a joke of it all
[Chorus]
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moments in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
You know I’ll be
Your life, your voice your reason to be
My love, my heart
Is breathing for this
Moment in time
I’ll find the words to say
Before you leave me today
Rhymes: feet- street, numb- lung, fall- all
Word that are repeated: you, your, be, today, I, moments, etc.
I think the song is a beautiful way to tell a tragic good-bye story. Personally I haven’t experienced one of those moments, but I love this song. It is kind of sad and you, well at least most of the people who like this song, can clearly imagine the moment in which two lovers are sadly separated. Also it comes to my mind that maybe someone loved is going through a hard time and excludes him or herself, to find a solution, without knowing he or she should stay to receive that love. It is a really strong song, it brings a lot of emotions to me when I read it.
I think repetition and rhyme makes it more romantic and powerful. Because it seems like they are trying to make it as clear as possible that they love that person and are not willing to let him or her go without them knowing it.
He was born in January 1809, Boston, Massachusetts.
His parents were actors, his father left his family soon after he was born, and his mother died when he was only 3 years old. Poe was separated from his siblings and went to live with the Allan family in Richmond, Virginia. John was a successful tobacco merchant. Poe and John had their issues, because Poe preferred poetry over profits.
Poe went to study to the University of Virginia, but he didn’t received enough money to cover his costs, so he turned to gambling, but instead of earning more he went into a deep debt.
TRAGEDIES:
-his mother died when he was young and his father left them.
-he had a big debt.
-His neighbor and fiancee got engaged to another man while he was away.
He worked in: Richmond, New York City, Philadelphia
LEGACY:
H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Tim Burton,
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