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16-year-old who narrates the story and this point of view
Who is Holden and first person narrator.
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Belonged to Allie and had poems written on it.
What is the baseball mitt?
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The gift that Holden buys for Phoebe, but breaks when he's drunk
What is a record?
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He said “This is a people shooting hat...I shoot people in this hat.”
Who is Holden Caufield?
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Because of the language use and sexual references, many people asked for "Catcher" to become this.
What is a banned book?
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Holden took this date to the show with the Lunts
Who is Sally?
200
Holden worries about this during the winter (what does it symbolize?)
What is the ducks in the lagoon and the change of growing up (the need to adapt to change).
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Holden gives these people $10 because he feels they need it.
Who are the nuns?
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He said “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Who is Mr. Spencer?
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In chapter 16, Holden hears a little boy singing "If a body catch a body." The actual lines of this 18th century poem are this.
What is "If a body meet a body"?
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The boy who jumped out the window rather than take back what he said about someone.
Who is James Castle?
300
Holden used to go here as a kid for school and now Phoebe goes there
What is the Museum of Natural History? Symbolizes constancy.
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Holden swears a lot throughout the novel to seem more like this.
What is older?
300
She said "So long, crumb-bum."
Who is Sunny?
300
Mark Chapman had a copy of "Catcher" in his pocket when he killed this man.
Who is John Lennon?
400
The Columbia student who advises Holden to see a psychoanalyst.
Who is Carl Luce?
400
Where Holden takes Phoebe at the end of the book before he gets sick
What is the carousel?
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Holden argues with her because he refuses to let her go away with him.
Who is Phoebe?
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She said "I'm taking belching lessons from this girl, Phyllis Margulies."
Who is Phoebe?
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In this year, "Catcher" was the most banned book and the most taught book in American classrooms.
What is 1981?
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Women whom Holden tries to make a date with when he gets to New York
Who is Faith Cavendish?
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Holden wants to be this after hearing a little boy singing a song.
What is "The Catcher in the Rye?" Symbolizes the preservation of innocence.
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The place where Holden goes in New York after leaving Pencey.
What is the Edmont hotel?
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He said "I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.”
Who is Mr. Antolini?
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He wrote the poem "Comin Thro the Rye."
Who is Robert Burns?
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