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1 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Presented by Anique van Gorp Grade 9 10/06/11

2 10/06/11 INTRODUCTION 2

3 UNIT QUESTION What does it mean to grow up? 1. Responsibility
10/06/11 UNIT QUESTION What does it mean to grow up? 1. Responsibility Keeping a job Taking care for yourself and your family Paying your own bills 2. Mentally growing up You want to learn more about things You care more about yourself and others

4 3. Physically growing up Becoming taller More hair Broader shoulders
10/06/11 3. Physically growing up Becoming taller More hair Broader shoulders As you grow up, you step in a new world. You discover more about stuff you didn’t even know you could do and you learn more about yourself. I think that is the most beautiful thing of growing up.

5 10/06/11 WHO IS J.D. SALINGER? Best known work: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. (1951) Born and grew up in the fashionable apartment in Manhatten, New York. Salinger’s early short stories appeared in magazines: Story, Saturday Evening Post. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure," said Salinger in to a New York Times correspondent.

6 10/06/11 QUOTES Don't tell anybody... anything.If you do, you start missing everybody.

7 10/06/11 "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.” 7

8 I don't even know what I was running for - I guess
10/06/11 I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it.

9 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Is Holden a strong character?
10/06/11 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Is Holden a strong character? How can you explain the title?

10 MY RESPONSE TO THE BOOK Holden Language
10/06/11 MY RESPONSE TO THE BOOK Holden Language Relationship between Holden and Jane

11 10/06/11 My Poster

12 Thank you for listening!
10/06/11 Thank you for listening!


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