Expostion/Climax
- Protagonist Holden finds out he is getting expelled from Pencey
- His parent do not know yet
- Fights Stradlater
- Decides to leave while talking to Ackely
- Introduced to adulthood
Rising Action of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Francisco Lagarde
Ms. Kineman
Honors English 10 - 2
12 May 2014
Inciting Incident
Works Cited
- an event or action that propels the plot of a story forward
Baers, Michael. "The Fifties." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: St. James, 2000. N. page. Student Resources in Context. Web. 9 May. 2014.
Key Characters
Salingers, J.D.The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Print.
- The fight with Stradlater
SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Catcher in the Rye.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.
Aboyte, Gilbert. The Catcher in the Rye. 2002.
- Holden Caulfield - round static, does not evolve from previous thoughts
- Mr. Antolini - round dynamic, strongly admired by Holden
- Phoebe - round dynamic, Holden's sister, shows interest about Holden
"I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open" (Salinger 43).
Rising Action
Climax
- a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build towards the point of greatest interest
- the most intense, exciting, or important point of something
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- Holden leaves and starts encountering
others
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- Stays the night at Mr. Antolini's apartment. Becomes attached to him as a teacher and as a friend.
"'He's a sensitive boy.'... Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Marrow was about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat" (Salinger 55).
dam toilet
Conflicts
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Nature
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Self
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die noaly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" (Salinger 188).