MOTIFS IN CATCHER IN THE RYE
As you investigate the significance of the motif you selected, use the following guiding questions to frame your research, and to help you form conclusions:
1. Is the motif a noun?verb?adjectibe? Motif is a noun.
2. How does it come up in the novel, and how does it impact what is going on? What happens immediately preceding or immediately following a mention or discussion of this motif? At the begginig of the book Holden actually talks about how he hates football. He is the captain of the fencing team. He hates athletics, and he enjoys checkers.
3. What is the mood when this idea or thing is brought up? Would you associate this with times when Holden is content? frightened? frantic? confused? Is this mood consistent with every incidence of this motif? Well for example, when he talks about football he seems very angry and like if the word "football" annoyed him. Fencing is like if he doesnt really care. He plays it and all, but he doesnt really put much importance to it. He really like checkers. Since its a game of small details. He is a very judjeable guy so he likes little games like those.
4. Is Holden alone when this motif occurs? If not, with whom is he interacting? How would you charac- terize that interaction? Does this motif occur both when he is alone and when he is with other people? Is there a connection to be made? Well, at the very beggining when he is talking about the football game, he is alone analyzing it. In fencing, he is with the team and all. And in Checkers he is with Jane. He kind of gets in a better moode when he talks about Jane and checkers. When he thinks of both togather.
5. What does this motif tell you about Holden, in a “big picture” way - Does this suggest anything about his personality? His weaknesses or strengths? His sense of himself? Yeah. I personally think tahat he is a very detail looking guy. He wants perfection in other people. He doesnt like games that doesnt include more intime interaction. Not like football which is more phisicall. He likes games in which you can study the other person. He likes to judge a lot. Thaths a weakness that he has. But that gives him the strenght to know very well how people are.
6. Tie it all together: Did any pattern emerge? Pick out other words or ideas used in conjunction with this motif. Look back on your investigation and come up with a single sentence that sums up what you’ve discovered. Write three or four more sentences supporting your thesis sentence. Use references from the novel, and form an opinion of your own. Yes. Holden always like the important details. Thats why he enjoys checkers. But for example when he is watching the football game at the hill, he is completley alone. And what is he doing? He is judging and trying to find an error to everyone and everything. He always puts the word "phony" in the book. Well maybe he is the phony. I think he has to put more attention to him and not so much to others.
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