"Catcher in the Rye" Book Review

It was a regular day in English class. Essays due, lectures given, objectives on the board. On this particular day though there was something different on that board. It said that we were going to be given a book called the "Catcher in the Rye". I've heard about it before from the Senior boys last year and was told that it was a pretty interesting book. I thought it was going to be a good book as well, but the only part that was confusing to me was the cover of the book. I didn't get how the title and the picture compared to each other.

The book was interesting to me in the beginning because it started off with Holden being at a football game. Holden already seemed like the type of person who never wanted to be around anyone because while all of the students were cheering on the football team on one side of the bleachers, he was on the other side. After hearing about how he dropped out of 4 different schools it made me wonder what made him so unsuccessful. When hearing about the childhood he went through I then understood why he was having a problem.

Personally I didn't really like the book. Towards the middle and end of the book all Holden really does is tell how phony the people were. It was kind of getting on my nerves. I think my older cousin would like this book because he Holden acts the same way. My cousin doesn't really like to do the family activities we have. It seems like he just likes to be on his own sometimes and that's why i think he would like this book.

Imagine being thirsty after a long practice and realizing you have $2, just enough for a gatorade. You get to the store as fast as you can to buy a gatorade and quench your thirst. As soon as you buy it, you get outside, open the cover, and realize all of your friends that were at practice with you are waiting for you, asking for a drink. No matter how bad you want to say no to them, you know you have to give them a drink because if not they'll think your gritz and will probably talk about how gritz you are to other people.

An experience I had with this problem was after one of the hardest basketball practices we had, after losing one of are games. At the end of practice i looked in my bag and realized I had $2. I was really thirsty so I started running to Superette to get me a gatorade with my money. Little did I know three of my teammates were following me to the store because they saw me grab money out of my bag. I was really thirsty and grouchy and didn't want to share, so when one of my friends asked me for a drink I told them no. They started to make me feel bad saying they bought stuff for me before and they gave me a drink of there gatorade when they had. I ended up giving them the gatorade after drinking about half of it. It's just one of those times where you have to share with your friends or else they start giving you the guilt treatment.

Giving up something you really want is really hard but sometimes you have to just go with it. Giving up my gatorade was really hard for me because I was so thirsty, but i know if I didn't give it to my friends they wouldn't like me as much. Sometimes you have to be sneaky to get what you want.

Sharing is Caring

I picked this title because sharing my drink with some of my friends after practice is hard form me. I always try to hide my food and drink when i buy it because i know my friends will ask for some. "Sharing is Caring" is a good phrase for me to work on as well. Sometimes though it can be good not to share because you have to do things for yourself. It's good to not share if your having money problems and your hungry at lunch. You don't need to share if you don't want to, but it's good if you do cause people will think you're a better person.