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I hoarded a lot of old sheets of homework and handouts from school over the years, mostly as free drawing paper, but I don't draw as much anymore, and certainly not on old colored sheets of paper. The piles need to go away. And yet, I don't feel right tossing these old bits of school into the bin, not without leaving something of them somewhere.

I don't claim any of these as being important, historical, accurate, or even useful. This is for my own amusement and sanity, updated as I will. Either way, I will type them up here as close as I can to the original format, include dates if available, and do my best to tag as appropriate. If I can find online versions of copied articles, I'll link them.

The actual papers themselves won't be scanned or photographed unless there's an important image I can't find elsewhere, or I can't replicate easily in text, such as language sheets.

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English 101 - Response Paper Assignments

Guidelines: 1-1 1/2 pages, double-spaced, in MLA format

Your response papers will be divided into two types: one will deal with a passage from one of the articles that we are reading for a given week and one will be a critical response to an image(s) in popular culture.

Textual responses: You will select one passage from the week's reading (no more than about four lines), type it out in full, and then write a commentary in which you aim to articulate your perspective on what strikes you as important in the passage. You may disagree with the passage, agree with it, agree with part of it but reject the rest -- in any case, establish a distinct perspective on it; do not simply summarize. Whatever your response, you should engage closely with the chosen passage and offer specific reasons in support of your response. If you devote careful attention to these response papers, you will feel more actively engaged in class discussions.

Cultural image response: You will find a visual advertisement in a popular newspaper or journal that corresponds thematically to the ideas we are discussing (i.e., issues of class, gender, or race). You will then work to interpret this image, to unearth the cultural message(s) implicit in it. Again, be sure to interpret, not just represent the image in textual form. Be sure to hand in the image as well as your analysis.

You may turn these in any order you please, so long as they arrive on the dates assigned on the syllabus for response papers.

Due dates: _____ and _____.

Thanks to Gregory Hill, Purdue University English Department, for this assignment.

#english #assignment #2005-2007

Although Holden's hunting cap does not seem important or significant to the story Catcher in the Rye, it is actually a huge motif, and tells a lot about the person who wears it. The hunting cap symbolizes Holden's feelings and his unique yet contradictory personality. When he wears the cap he seems to be seeking attention, and wants to stand out. He is being his true self because he likes the hat; although many find it ugly and unfashionable, but Holden bought and wears it anyway. He puts it on while he is in his dorm, and the taxi cab, and while walking to the train station. However, Holden doesn't wear the hat all the time, and when he takes it off he is usually insecure at the time, and out in public. For example, he takes it off before he goes into the Hotel after arriving in New York, because he doesn't want people to "think he is a screwball". He also takes it off when the train arrives, and when people start emerging. By putting the hat on and taking it off, it shows how Holden is rather hypocritical. He doesn't like phonies, or people who conform and pretend to be something their not just to be popular, and yet he does the same thing. He wears the hat and says he doesn't care how he looks or what people think about him, but then he takes it off when he goes out in public! I think Holden is a very complex person, and he does have lots of issues. I understand that Holden wants to be himself, but he is afraid that if he is himself all the time, then people won't like him, or think he is weird. He desperately seeks companionship on a deeper level, yet he doesn't seem to be able to connect with anyone because he 'conforms' around people.

The red hunting cap has already come up a lot in the novel. The red hunting cap is a noun that is also a motif because it means more than what it is. The red hunting cap symbolizes Holden's individuality. He wears this hat when he doesn't care what people think of him, and helps him remember his individuality. For an example Holden wears this hat when he wanted to get Ackley to leave his room, probably trying to make it so he will leave, but also to show off that he doesn't care if Ackley thinks he is weird. On page 53 you see something very interesting. It is a conflict of feelings that Holden is feeling. He puts his hat on, because at first he doesn't care what anyone thinks, but then he take it off because he doesn't want to look too "corny."

During the course of the novel you can notice a pattern, of Holden's dependency on cigarettes. The first time you start to see Holden wanting a cigarette is right before Stradlater's date with Jane, who is also the girl Holden loves. This time Holden depends on cigarettes just to calm him self down. Then when Stradlater gets back from his date Holden lights up other cigarettes to anger Stradlater. In this case Holden is also depending on cigarettes because he uses it to make Stradlater mad. Later in the novel Holden meets up with Morrow's mother while he is alone on the train. Holden uses cigarettes to start up a conversation with Morrow's mother by asking her if she would like a smoke. So once again Holden use cigarettes as a crutch, because he is lonely and needs someone to talk to. These incidents also show that Holden is some what insecure of him self, that is probably the reason he depends on cigarettes.

#literature #Catcher in the Rye #handout #author unknown #2002-2004

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