Chapter 6 "Post-Performance Questions"
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Chapter 7 Questions
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Chapter 16-17 Questions
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Chapter 18-19 Questions
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Chapter 20-26 Questions
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Motif Essay Assignment
You will be writing an essay on the recurring motifs in Catcher in the Rye. Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Before you start the first assignment, identify a motif from the list below that you would like to follow:
- Isolation
- Relationships, intimacy, sexuality
- Lying and deception
- The Red Hunting Cap
- ducks in Central Park
- cigarettes
- phony/pervert/screwball
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Next, answer the following questions. You will be taking a closer look at what you have learned about the ways that the motif you have chosen come up in the story:
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Finally, you are going to take what you have gathered from the past two assignments and form an opinion on the meaning of the motif you have chosen and explain its purpose in developing the deeper themes of the story and how it gives insight into Holden's character. You will write a 4-5 paragraph expository essay, which will include a thesis and evidence from the story to support your argument. Use the following rubric to help guide your essay. Be sure to include all of the elements included on the rubric.
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