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“He was just singing for the heck of it, you could tell. The cars zoomed by, brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the curb and singing ‘If a body catch a body coming through the rye.’ It made me feel better.” This quote from chapter 16 when Holden was walking behind the poor family after church shows his compassion and observation of the things around him. “The cars zoomed by, breaks screeched” is onomatopoeia and draws attention to what’s going on around Holden. Holden is showing compassion and his caring side when he feels for the young boy whose parents are not paying any attention to him. This makes Holden feel better while he cares for the little boy.

Catcher in the Rye 9-10

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The author of Your Rattle No One Else Can Hear? uses the idea of a rattle that her car makes. She puts a greater meaning to the rattle, she compares it to a thorn in your side. “that thing that is the thorn in your side, that others can’t see or detect that you’re told to get over” (Your Rattle No One Else Can Hear?) The rattle is basically anything in your life that seems small or insignificant to other people but to it’s a big deal and a problem you need to take care of. The article is really about the burdens of your life that no one else sees as burdens. Holden’s rattle is his brother. Holden really misses his brother, we see this when he writes the story about his baseball mitt. Holden can describe Allie so easily and when he wrote about his baseball mitt Holden could easily describe it. They was Holden talks about his brother you can really tell that he misses him. “But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways.” (Salinger 43) In a way I think Holden’s rattle is the fact that he wished he would’ve died instead of his intelligent, nice little brother. Holden doesn’t come out and say this but by the way he talks about him this seems as though this is the case. Holden doesn’t think of himself in a good positive way, he describes himself as a screw up and sort of worthless. The total opposite is how he talks about Allie, which leads us to believe that his rattle is Allie and what happened to him.