The Hanging Green Dress, Ch. 13

When Holden returns from the Lavender Room, he decides to skip the drinking at the bar and go straight up to his room. He had mentioned he felt lonely and a little depressed. But then, the elevator operator asks him if he's interested in a prostitute. Twenty minutes later, a prostitute named Sonny knocks on his door. She seems naive and nervous, almost as nervous as Holden. This isn't the first time we have seen Holden so nervous when talking to or about a girl. For example, Holden got nervous thinking or talking about his neighbor, Jane. Sonny took off her green dress and asked Holden to hang it up. Holden said it made him feel sad. He didn't want anything from Sonny, he just wanted to talk to her during that time she was in his room. If Holden said he was a virgin, I think he only said yes to having the prostitute in his room so he could have someone to talk to so he wouldn't feel so lonely. Why did the hanging green dress make Holden feel sad? What is the dress a metaphor of or what does it symbolize in Holden's life? 

FOILED again.

Think back to last semester about the lesson we had about literary foils. Below is the definition of a foil:

In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. A foil can be anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils." Remember too that one definition of foil is "a thin layer of polished metal placed under a displayed gem to lend it brilliance."

In Chapters 4 and 5 of Catcher, how do Robert Ackley and Ward Stradlater act as foils to Holden? How do their respective personalities illuminate something about Holden? What do you think about these characters? Please reference the text directly when possible.

Metaphorize!

Write an effective metaphor for one of the following:

1. Living in Houston
2. Shoes
3. Memory

Vocabulary, Ch. 3

Write a sentence in which you use at least 3 vocabulary words from Chapter 3 correctly. As usual, you may change the form of the word where appropriate.

Food for Thought

Name the form, content, tone, occasion and audience for one of the foods on the following site:

http://www.epicurious.com/

Include a link to the recipe you chose.

Midsummer, Redux

Choose one of the following three prompts and respond to it in a thoughtful comment.

1. Imagine yourself as either a commoner or noble during the early 1600s. Which parts of the play would you have enjoyed the most, and which would you have not understood? Why?

2.Even though this play was first staged hundreds of years ago, do you find the lessons on love it holds still relevant today? Which lessons? Why?

3. At the end of the play, Puck says:

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.

Would you have applauded or hissed at the end of this play? Explain.

Lysander Got A New 'Stache