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retrospec2018-08-10 04:53 am
standalonehuman) wrote in retrospec2018-08-10 04:53 am
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Literature Review
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8/11 near Apprassage
Catcher in the Rye, in English. Retrospec sent me this one a while back, but I had to read this thing in high school. World lit. Hated it then, but apparently it's important now.
It bothers me that I'm starting to understand it on a re-read. Holden has absolutely everything going for him, but chooses to try as hard as he can to not engage with society around him. Back in high school, I thought it was just a morality tale, a spook story for kids, scare them into figuring their lives out or turn out like him.
And then we all get dropped into a situation where it would be so easy to do exactly what Holden wishes he could. To decide that this life doesn't matter, and turn yourself deaf-mute to the implications. But even that wouldn't get him what it wants, would it?
Question one is, what keeps you going? Keeps you paying attention to the world around you?
Second question comes back to Retrospec's latest game. Anybody else get a jigsaw puzzle?
"Turn him to any cause of policy, the Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, familiar as his garter."
Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1. The Archbishop describing how much Henry has changed as soon as he had to take the throne, going from a layabout of a prince to a sharp statesman of a king. It's really just a framing scene, telling the audience about the time that passed between plays. Odd quote to pull out.
So the last question is, what does that mean to anybody else?
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i think maybe our teacher didnt like it either lol
we read of mice and men instead
also did someone draw on the cover???
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Yeah, if you haven’t read it, I dont recommend it. There’s an interesting analogy to our current situation? But putting up with Holden as a character is not worth it. He’s so whiny.
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most of the books from high school were boring tbh
online school in general was kind of boring lol
i liked the ones we read this year though!!!
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So what was this year?
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most of online school was like a forum???
or like a chat room
and wed have to discuss everything with each other that way
i think i like regular school better though
its nice to be able to talk to people in person
but anyway we read to kill a mockingbird and the great gatsby this year and i really liked those!!!
also hamlet which was okay i guess
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Yikes, I definitely prefer that. That sounds hard, but also isolating.
I really liked To Kill A Mockingbird. Gatsby, I'm on the fence about, Jay Gatsby is not quite cut from the same cloth as Holden, but he still comes off like a brat. The yearning for something that you can only look at, though. Again, it's another parallel to what we're going through.
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i didnt really have much of a choice for schools lol
we were traveling so much that regular school was impossible
i think the most time we ever spent in one place was like a month
this year was the first time ive gone to real school since like middle school
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i love playing in the band and i loved all the cool places we went
and i had my family with me so its not like i was lonely
but having a break and getting to be normal for once
its kind of nice too
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i thought everyone did lol
minako toured for a while as an idol
and i played drums in her band
and sometimes some of the other instruments but mostly drums
thats why we were in recolle in the first place
we had a show here and then a month off
and then we just got stuck here