5/23/18

In class today we finished the discussion we started yesterday on the good fortune and the bad fortune of some of the characters in The Cather in the Rye, then we started to have a new discussion on Holden, asking "is Holden's life and story and tragedy and if so what makes it tragic and which type of tragedy would it be?" I thought that it had more of a Romantic Tragedy than Modern because it's mostly his fault he's failing in life, not the system, because he is a liar, has cynicism, and flunking  every class which is his fault. Of course he has some things in line with Modern Tragedy too, a systematic flaw that affects Holden is that the the world can't help him. That's what the discussion was, but we had homework. What you had to do was read this college essay that's posted on classroom, and read an article on that same college essay and say what are the five components of a college essay. What knowing the components if a college essay will help us to write college essays on our own, so that our college essays are to the best of our ability, and reflect us, the people who are writing them.  It also helps us to understand the teenage author of the sample essay, her background and her goals and such, and compare them to Holden.The article covers the admission officers who analyzed it to the brim saying what they think makes the essay so good, so you may use their thoughts to form your own idea of how a college essay should be. What analyzing Holden's tragedy does for us is understand where he stand on the good fortune/ bad fortune scale, and understand just how modern his tragedy is and just how romantic it is. Anyway it's not to hard of an assignment, it's due tomorrow before class starts at 7:00, get it done for tomorrow.