Holden's Red Hunting Hat

I think Holden’s red hat means more than just a red hunting hat. For him I don’t think it’s just worth a “buck”. I also don’t think it is used for hunting, so that the dear can’t spot you I think it means something else. I think the red hunting hat symbolizes Holden himself or what he wants to do, his motive. What the red hunting hat symbolizes is Holden hunting for phonies like Ackley and Stradlatter. He is trying to find people that look like something great but are not what they look like. For example one of Holden’s phonies is Stradlatter. He says that Stradlatter looks great on the outside, but he is really a “secret slob” who has these bad manners. Like Holden says that he always uses the same razor and never cleans it. I think this is kind of ironic because I think Holden is a phony himself. So I think the red hunting hat does mean that he is searching for the phonies in the world, and the color blinds them and the phonies do not know that Holden is the hunter, but i do not know what he wants to do to phonies if he ever "captures" them.

Letter to Charles Bukowski

Dear Charles Bukowski,

 I read your poem "Dinosauria,We" and it really caught my attention since the start. In the start it says “As Mrs. Death laughs, As the elevators break, As political landscapes dissolve, As the supermarket bag boy holds a college degree”. Why did you put these examples together, why did you choose these examples? Were you trying to show how the world is cruel or was to show how the beginning of the end. Also I wanted to ask you why did you choose to say born like this instead of anything else, for example you could have said that we caused that instead of us being born into it. What do you mean when you said “The heart is blackened, the fingers reach for the throat”. What type of heart were you talking about, were you talking about the heart as in the organ or as the heart as in passion to accomplishing something. I like how you explain the present and then the future. In the future you predict a horrific end of the world which you don’t explain what happened. You do mention nuclear bombing and also diseases which could happen to be a zombie apocalypse. I like the comparison you made with Dante’s Inferno; this made me imagine how bad it would be living when this apocalypse is happening. I wanted to ask you what gave you the idea to write this poem the way it is. What gave you the idea of writing how the world is going to end? I ask this because I want to say that this poem was well written and the words had a great imagery it really made me imagine what you wrote. Thank you for writing this poem it was very interesting and I liked how you wrote it and your description t o the end of the world.

Sincerely,

Javier

Father and Son

In the book we are reading in class, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, it talks about a father and son that are living thru a disaster that just happened in the world. They are trying to survive the cold winter and are trying to go south. Somethi9ng significant of this is that they are surviving with each other, but while surviving the “apocalypse” they dad does things with the child that he would have done if this hadn’t happened. For example, the child tells him to read books to him (while on their way to the south) and the dad says yes.

The father and son in this book have a really good relationship, even though the age of the child or the man is unknown. His dad is trying to raise him the same way he would have raised him if everything was ok. The father still wants the child to experience stuff. Like when man found a can of Coca Cola instead of him drinking it he tells the child to drink it. This also shows that the father cares about the child and not just ignores him. If the dad wouldn’t care about the child he would have not taken care of him and not let him have things that the father would maybe not see in his life no more.

This father and his son is a great example of how a father and son should treat each other. They both cared a lot of each other and will do anything for the other. In the book the kid tell the father “what would you do if I died?” the father answered “if you died I would want to die too.”. This shows how much they care about each other and how good a relationship do they have.