Catcher in the Rye

I think being unique means that you are different from other people. Being unique doesn't mean that you completely stand out from others, I think it means you might have a different personality or look compared to someone else. Being unique is what separates you from other people, it's what makes you special!

I think in order to keep individuality in an adult world you just have to be you. Dress how you want, do the activities that you like, do what makes you happy. As long as you stay true to yourself and don't do what others do because they want you to or you feel left out. Do what makes you happy.

Allies character is similar to my favorite person because they are both understanding and very nice. Allie is described as being really smart and I think that my favorite person is smart and likes to read too. Also, Allie has a good sense of humor and laughs a lot just like my favorite person.

If I were Holden and I just got kicked out of a school like Prencey Prep, I would go to my grandma's house. My grandma is super caring and understanding. She would be disappointed with me but she wouldn't yell or send me away. She would try to make me feel better instead of making me feel bad. Also, my grandma has lots of good food in her house.

Jane is important to Holden because they were in a relationship together for a while. Jane seems like a smart person who likes to learn and try new things. She seems sort of sensitive and bottled up because she wouldn't tell anyone what was going on with her step father. She wouldn't even tell Holden. But besides that she seems nice.

At the end of chapter 12, Holden says "people are always ruining things for you." I don't fully agree with this statement. People only ruin things for you if you let them. I think Holden said this because he was feeling depressed and didn't really want to associate with people who were concerning other things besides him. A time where someone has ruined something for me was when I was going to go shopping with my aunts. My younger brother had found out and wanted to come along. The only problem was that there wasn't enough room in the car for him to come. My younger brother began to cry and we had to cancel the shopping trip.

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Chance and fate played a large role in the short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find. The events occurred in a domino effect. One example of chance in the short story is when the grandmother startled the cat on a car ride, the startled cat jumped and clawed at the driver causing him to roll the car into a ditch. I thought it was ironic how the grandmother dressed properly before setting out on the family trip. She figured that if she were to die in a car crash, the people who would find her body would think of her as a lady. What’s ironic is that she did die, but not from a car crash. This is also an example of fate. Fate happened to be the death of this family.

When the grandmother talks to Sammy at the diner, she tells Sammy he’s a good man because he let two men swindle him. The grandmother thinks that being kind enough to let a person do something that isn’t really right, means that you’re a good person. I don’t agree with the grandmother’s definition because acting gullible to help someone out when they are doing something bad isn’t good.

An article that discusses A Good Man is Hard to Find, states that the grandmother is vain and selfish until the last moment before her death. Before she was shot to death, she reached out to try and comfort and touch her killer thinking that he was about to cry. The touch surprised her killer and he shot her. The grandmother showed an act of grace in her last moment.