1. Is the motif a noun? verb? adjective?
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?
Moron is normally a word somebody uses to insult someone, it comes up in the novel when Holden gets annoyed with his conversation with Ackley, and he decides to leave New York earlier and when he is in the hallway he yells "Sleep tight y'all morons"
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?
THe mood is more an angry frustrated mood, when he says morons on chapter 7 he is pretty angry. Not always does this motif become a angry mood but a frsutrated mood.
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 not precisely is he alone but before saying the word moron he becomes angry or frustrated with his friends, so he says it when he is alone but he also wants them to hear it so they can at least acknowledge that he is upset in some sort of way, normally when someone is angry and says a bad word they don't always keep it int heir mind they say it out loud, everyone does it.
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?
Well the motive tells me that Holden is a insecure teenager because he gets frustrated a lot and leaves if someone is bothering him, normally a secure person would stay their and talk back but he just walks away.
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.
Well a pattern emerged, Holdens way of saying moron is in a frustrated or angry mood. In my research I did not see him saying Moron in a nice and friendly way. In a opinion their is a way of describing Holden in spanish "Subido" which means that he thinks he is the most awesome person that he knows everything, but I think further out in the book he will start to learn that he has to be wrong or be a phony for once in his life.
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