Bell Ringer 10/1  Please get out Journal Entry #4 so that I can check it.

English III  EQ: How do the images, symbols, motifs, and title of The Catcher in the Rye aid in the development of several themes within the novel?  Agenda  Bell Ringer: Journal Entry #4 On-Time Check  Agenda/EQ  Images, Symbols, and Motifs Notes  Answering Part B  Analyzing Images, Symbols, and Motifs  Connecting to Themes (Theme Inventory)

Images, Symbols, Motifs  Images: Word or phrase that creates pictures in the reader’s mind or suggests special impressions. Images can be visual or sensual – smell, taste, touch, color, sound, etc.  Symbols: An image, person, place, or thing which also represents something larger or more abstract, in the way that a flag symbolizes a country.  Motifs: A recurring pattern of a feature – object, image, symbol – in a literary work

Images, Symbols, Motifs  Images  Ackley’s teeth and nails  Not necessarily symbolic b/c it doesn’t represent something larger than Ackley  Symbols  The carrousel that Phoebe rides  Represents the cyclical nature of things  Motifs  Holden’s continued interest in the ducks in the park recurs several times throughout the novel  This Motif could also be symbolic: What can nature show us of change and adaptation, or, is nature, like the carrousel, also cyclical?

Images, Symbols, Motifs: Part B  Images, symbols, and motifs are used by writers:  To focus attention on what the writer wants a reader to notice  To create interior patterns within the literary work  To lend continuity  To create emphasis  To create a structural unity  To add texture to the prose

Images, Symbols, Motifs  Get out your Theme Inventory  Compare both your Theme Inventory and the activity we just completed  Which images, symbols, or motifs could support which themes?  In the bottom margin of Handout 10, list 2 themes from the Theme Inventory.  Underneath each theme, list theme images, symbols, or motifs that could support that theme.