Blog 2

“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.