We All Go Through...

I think that we all go through what Holden is going through. We all want to grow up so fast and then when we get their we are like "I want to go back"...Holden doesnt want people telling him want to do in life, or to do better in school but yet he does. Holden is one of does people that act like they dont care but they really do care, he cares about what he does, and what kind of grades he has, he just wants to seem like he doesnt care so that he can seem older. I am not sure were he got the idea that adults dont care about what they do or act like, cause he is wrong. Adult care as much as teens do, they care about their looks, the way they talk, and about the things they do. Holden keeps calling other people "phonies" but really he is the biggest one of them all...

I understand were he is coming from: I hate it when people tell me what to do over and over, or when they ask me if I get something, after I say "yes" 1,000 times. When people do that to me, I then end up not doing what they told me to do or I mess it up because I get mad and I dont care. I think Holden is the same way, he would like to do better but people keep telling him he needs to do better that he then doesnt do better. I also think that Holden is one of does kids that no one believes in, and then people tell him that he wont get anywere in life; so then he dont try.

-Dzeneta Jusufovic

Chapter 9-11

Holden would like to be a child and get away with stuff like getting kicked out of school, but then he would also like to be an adult and get alcohol because he thinks that just cause he is tall and has some gray hairs that he would be able to get away with anything...I think he is starting to see that the world isnt a easy place to live and he really would like to call someone and tell them what is going on but everyone he things of he either calls them "phonies" or doesnt want his mom and dad to find out. But we learn that he has a little sister and he talks about her like she is the best thing in the world and it makes me think of the time he was talking about Allie, and all the things he says about her make her seem kinda like Allie. Holden cares about his sister and he did care about Allie, I am not sure if he cares about his older brother yet, but he those seem to this like his parents a little. I think he would like to go home but then he would also like to be on his own and clear his head. Holden right now has two personalities: he would like to go home and take back what he did, and that part of him still wants to be a kid. Then he also wants to live alone, drink, and dance with girls that he calls ugly over and over again.

I am turning 16 this Sunday and I really dont want to. If I could I would go back to being 2 or 3, when I had people to care for me and I didnt have to care for myself and other people too. When all I had to do was sleep, eat and play; now it seems like the older I get more new people come into my life (some I like and some not so much) and then the people I knew are leaving or I'm leaving. I also feel like the older I get the more I have to live up to what others want me to be, and I get lost between what I want for myself and what other want for me, and it doesnt help much when I am making planes for my brother and sister's future, cause it scares me that one day I will be the one that is fully responsible for them and the fact that I dont know when that day is scares me even more cause I am not ready for that, and sometimes it makes me wish that I wasnt the oldest, and that I had an older brother or sister to help me. But then again I am glad that I will be their for my brother and sister to help them.

-Dzeneta J.

Chapter 4 & 5

Chapter 4 was ok, it kinda of got boring with him talking about that girl and i really didnt want to read chapter 5 after that...but i did and i felt so much sympathy for him; his brother died and he really missed him. it was so sad and I wanted to read on but I didnt...I would go crazy if I lost my brother or sister, I mean they make me mad sometimes but I love them so much I cant even try to picture my life without them...I also love how he wrote about his brother's mitt and I thought it was cute that his brother wrote poems on it.

-Dzeneta J.

Chapter 1-3

I like the book, well I am not sure that I like it but I seem to get it very well, kinda of. Anyway...the character seems to not care much about anyone or anything, so far its not boring but I am hoping it will get a little better soon...I really want to know why he is with his brother and what he did in New York.......


* Dzeneta Jusufovic