Just something I thought about...

I think if we had to do a cd for this book, this song would be a good one to use.

The Classic Crime:
Far From Home

I’ve got a bad taste in me
It’s like I’ve been robbed of something
I once was in my childhood memories
And it’s buried in sandboxes back where we used to see
The dreams could come true if believed
The sidewalks scream our names

We are so
Far from home
Far from home

I’ve got a bad pain in my heart
It’s like the first time that I looked in your eyes
The first time it all fall apart
And it’s buried in sandboxes back where we used to see
The dreams could come true if believed
The sidewalks scream our names

We are so
Far from home
Far from home
[x2]

All I have is words
To which I’m a slave
I scribble them down
Hoping to save me
But I’m lost
I’m so lost

These pages will burn
And I’ll pass away
Yesterday’s gone
And I just can’t shake
The fact that I’m lost
I’m so lost

But now we are so far from home
Far from home

Now we are so far from home
Far from home
[x5]


It is really similar to what something Holden might say. He practically lost his childhood after Allie dies, and he wishes that it could come back...

Week Four Blog entry: Characters...

I chose Pheobe as my character to analyze. Pheobe first appears in the book in Chapter 9, but is discribed by Holden in Chapter 10. "You'd like her. I mean if you tell old Pheobe something, she knows...what you're talking about."-p.67 From the very first time Holden discribes her, it almost seems like she is the girl version of Allie. Holden discribes her so similarly to Allie. Holden likes that Pheobe will listen to you and not put you down when you say something, she tries to encourage.

Throughout the book Holden does or says things for/about Phoebe. He buys a record for her when he is in New York. "I was lucky. The first record store I went into had a copy...I could hardly wait to get to the park to see if old Phoebe was around so that I could give it to her."-p.116 He doesn't want to hurt her in any way, and when he is drunk he breaks the record, "Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park. I dropped old Phoebe's record. It broke into about fifty pieces."-p.154 He says that he feels terrible, and he keeps the pieces. I am not sure what he was planning on happening about the broken pieces, if he was going to give them to her or not*. *I am pretending like I haven't read ch. 21 and 22, and that I did this post earlier :). When Holden talks about Phoebe he seems very happy, and in a different state of mind. I think that he tries to make things not as hard on her when he makes certain decisions.

Poem

IT JUST DIDN'T APPEAL TO ME

Caught in the moment.
I told her I loved her,
It was a lie.
But I meant it
When I said it.
That was then,
But this is now.
And now I know.
It was too good
To be true.
At first I was glad.
Now I am sad.

It would be nice
If things could be
How they were before.
I like the things
That never change.
Things that always
Stay the same
No matter how long
You have been gone.
I get very happy
When I think about it.
But,
When I got there,
It just didn't appeal to me.