Romeo and Juliet act 1

I like the different writing style, but it take a lot to get used to it. So far it seems like a well written story, and, (even though I already know) I want to know what will happen. Romeo is really pathetic, but it seems like a lot can happen around Benvolio and mercutio. Interested in seeing what happens.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Act II

The three most important characters are Henry, Waldo, and Lydian. Here is why they are important:
-Henry: Henry is avidly following the goals of trancsendentilism. He is very content with it, but no one gets why he lives out in the middle of "no where" and when he tries to explain what he finds disagreeable about most people, people aren't willing to here it or to change and adapt to a new way of life.
-Waldo: Waldo seems to be exactly the type of person the Henry finds it hard to work with. He is constantly talking about stuff, but what annoys Henry is that he nevers seems to do what he tells others that he should.
-Lydian: Lydian seems confused and annoyed with the arguments between Waldo and Henry. It seems like she just wants them to agree, and also like she feels that she has to choose between them. Lydian just wants peace between Henry and Waldo.
In the end, Henry did not win the argument. His point was that taxes shouldn't be paid, and that you can't make a person do something that they don't want to, but in the end his taxes get paid for him, and he is forced out of jail.
On page 98 Henry and Sam (the sheriff) are arguing over if Henry can stay in jail. Sam says "Now stop pokin' around tryin' to get me to tell. I promised your Aunt Louisa I wouldn't open my..." which is about as obvious as irony can get. Another example of irony is when  Waldo gives his speech about doing this-or-that, but he doesn't do it himself.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

One thing I noticed when I was reading Bananafish is that most of the people in it compare to multiple people in TCITR.
To start, here's how Muriel's mom compares to Holden and to Mr.Antolini. She was similar to Holden in the sense that she doubted the wellbeing of being with Seymour and his character, like how Holden doubted most humans and human nature in general. Muriel's compairs to Mr. Antolini because they both give lots of advice, even to the point of distraction at times.
Muriel can compare to Sally Anne. They are both generally good people, but they are both interested in popular stuff. They both also seem to be interested in boys. They are what might, in todays culture, be refered to as "populars" and in the 1920's they might have been refered to as "moderns."
Sybil is the equivalant to Pheobe. They are both the young, trustee, possible naive characters. They are also both very insistant that they get what they want.
That leaves Seymour. He might be the eqivalant of Holden. It seems like they both find human company difficult to deal with. The main difference from that perspective is the way they choose to deal with/ remove humans from their presence. They both also don't seem to mind swearing or changing/ having many girlfriends.

Thoreau

In TNTSIJ Henry says that he's reaching his class by the "Huckleberry" method, which is basically when you (in this case) teach your students by showing them the direction they should go in to learn and then by letting the students learn by coming up with questions and answering themselves. The huckleberry analogy also shows trancendentalist thought because It shows that the poeple are learning or trying to learn through thier own individual thought process.
Note: I'll probably add more tomorrow when I have a real computer.

The Catcher in The Rye Chapters 7-12

If I got kicked out of school, I would just go straight home to my parents. They would most likely understand that I hadn’t meant for it to happen, and they would help me get through it and find another school. If I were Holden and I had been kicked out of a school, I think I would have called Jane to see if she could have helped me figure out what to do. If she knew somewhere I could go, then I would go there. If that wouldn’t work, I would have gone to a hotel. I probably would have stayed at the hotel, only leaving for things like lunch, or to go to a library.

It’s hard to describe Jane. I would describe her as average, but two things make that inaccurate. The first is that no one is completely average. Everyone is special in some way. The other thing that makes it so that I can’t describe her as average is that Holden is describing her from his own special, mildly biased point of view. Holden describes her as being no-nonsense, which I think is good. I think that is a good description because Jane seems to be down to earth, and she knows her boundaries for what is appropriate for her and for other.

I don’t think that people are always ruining things. For me, it definitely isn’t true. There might be small things that people do that are annoying, but it isn’t horrible. One of the best examples I can think of is when I would like to do something, but there’s a conflict with what the rest of my family has to do. A specific example is if my brother has a concert that I have to go to.

CITR Chapters 1-6

To be unique is to be what you personally want to be, with no regard to what other think or want you to be. The main reason that you might lose you're individuality is because you lose sight of what you are,or of what you want to be. One thing you can do to focus on keeping individuality is to meditate (or just think) about who you are, and who you want to be.
I have many favorite people. One of those people is my brother. He's not calm like Allie, but he is very smart, and he finds many things to laugh about at the dinner table. He also enjoys poetry. Recently I haven't read much of his stuff, but in the past I have, and it is very good.

I'M DONE (The End of the Odyssey)

AT LAST!! :) :) :) Ok, so it wasn't really that bad, but I'm kind of tired of it. When I started it seemed like Ulysses was a good guy, but at the end he's murdering everyone, even his servants, and he's enjoying it. That just seems wrong. It seems like most everyone then thought that killing (which, in general, is different than fighting in a war to me) was good. I'd didn't like it at all. One thing I found highly confusing/annoying is that in many areas of the book it would say one thing, then a few pages later would say another. One example of that sort of thing was when Ulysses would swear upon the gods to tell the truth about his trip (or something), then he would tell a complete lie. It was so annoying! I'm glad we're done for now.