My Red Hunting Hat

A red hunting hat is supposed to protect you from other hunters while keeping you hidden from the deer that you are hunting.  For me the red hunting hat is my personality.  It protects me from other hunters because I can give as well as take a joke.  Rather than taking jokes directed at me by friends in a bad way and getting angry I just turn it around at them and laugh about it.  This is a good thing because it allows me to always keep a positive outlook on things rather than getting upset and ruining my day.  My personality also keeps me hidden from the deer in the sense that if something is upsetting me at the moment you often cannot tell because I try to act the same.  This keeps my emotions hidden sometimes making everyone the deer.  The last way is because it makes me stand out from the crowd.  If you see someone walking around in a red hunting hat you notice.  I am a rather loud and noticeable person so because of my personality I stand out rather than just going along with things.  Overall my personality fits every description of a red hunting hat.

Class Direction

I do not think there is anything about our class structure that should be changed.  I think that it is a very enjoyable class as well as being very interesting.  I love the fact that we get independent reading days every Thursday.  I also think that all the required readings are very interesting rather then dull.  The last thing that i really love about this class is the discussions that we have.  Many interesting ideas come up in all of them and i am never afraid to voice my opinion, nor do i ever feel like i have to make up something to share.  Overall I love this class and look forward to the rest of the year.

Holden The phoniest real person

Up to chapter 16 in The Catcher in the Rye we have been shown many times that Holden both hates people that he considers phony and that he loves people that he considers to be “real”.  Holden considers himself real and takes it upon himself to protect the other people that he considers to be real.  However I do not think that he is really as real as he sees himself.

If he was actually a real person why would he not tell the phonies what he thinks of them?  Outwardly he acts as if he does not have any of these feelings and ideas about all of the phonies around him.  Doesn’t that make Holden phony as well because he changes who he is as a person.  Also the fact that he constantly lies to the people around him about unimportant things when there is no reason to tell the lies at all.  For example when he wanted to leave Mr. Spencer’s house there was really no need to lie about going to get his stuff.  He could have just asked to leave.  Then an even better example is with Mrs. Morrow, there is no reason for him to have lied to her he could have just said nothing to her and been on his merry way but he decided to make stuff up for his own enjoyment.  These are two reasons that in my opinion make Holden himself is extremely phony.