Expectations Poem

Passing in the Eyes of a Mother.
By Sami Dye.

1 percent is all it takes.
The difference between life and death,
College and McDonalds,
Between A and B.

1 percent is all it takes,
to make you,
to break you,
to take you anywhere and everywhere.

If it starts to fall,
you better hope you don't lose it all,
because 1 percent is all it takes,
for your dreams to fade away.

Blog for Chapters 16-18

"I agree! I agree they do, some of them! But that's all I get out of it. See? Thats my point. That's exactly my goddam point."

1. This point is a true break through for Holden I feel like. It really stuck out the most to me from these three chapters. He's talking to Sally about how he hates school and he hates all the people around him, and I think that he has this sudden break through about how that's all he gets out of school.
2. I think that it means that Holden actually cares about what's happening around him. He's constantly been going through out the book acting like he doesn't care about what happens to him, and what the people around him think of him, and that he doesn't care about where he's going in life, but I think that this proves that all people that are like this in society, really deep down care the most about everyone and everything around him.
3. I think that it matters towards the book because its this true break through moment for Holden. I think that he's like opening up a little bit in some way, like this is almost a cry for help per say. He's telling Sally that that's pretty much all he can focus on. That's all he gets out of life. He knows that he's not normal, and that normal people care more about their school work then what everyone around him is doing, and that he knows how he should be but he isn't that way.

Why it's called Catcher in the Rye

I believe that the book was named Catcher in the Rye because it basically is an analogy that sums up Holden's major struggle through out the book. He struggles with maturity and immaturity. The two worlds that surround him, adulthood and childhood. When Holden talks about how he would like to be the Catcher in the Rye, he describes his dream job. He would like to catch children who are playing in a field, and when they get too close to the cliff at the end of the field Holden would swoop down and catch them. I think that's a bigger metaphor for society. Holden wants to save the children and their innocence and prevent them from growing up and being a bunch of phonies like everyone else in the adult world. He's the only person who can stand in both of these worlds. The only one who knows the horrors of the cliff, and what happens if the children fall off of it, and what it's like to be in the meadow.