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It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. Holden says, "I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. Look at the end of the second to last chapter (Twenty-Five), when Holden watches Phoebe go around on the carousel. If I'm on the way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera” (3.1) How does Holden speak? What kinds of diction choices does he make? Why is this important? To what degree can we trust Holden's descriptions of other people? Is Ackley really as pimply and disgusting as we're told he is? Is Phoebe really so smart and wonderful? “I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.  How does Salinger tend to end chapters? What do these endings have in common? How do they work to set the tone of the novel? You’ll need your book to help answer/think through these questions.

Consider from what events the world/America is recovering.The gist: Is it anybody’s business but one’s one if they “meet a body…kiss a body comin thro’ the rye?” (OH!! Scandalous!!).Title based off the poem “Comin Thro' The Rye,” by Robert Burns.Based on actual events of the Salem Witch TrialĪgree or Disagree: “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of tem that hang!” John Proctor was right for refusing to tarnish his name.Īgree or Disagree: “I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!” “I saw Goody Bibber with the Devil!” “I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!” Abigail alone is the proper scapegoat for the witch hunt.Īgree or Disagree: “…is your husband a lecher?” “No, Sir.” Elizabeth made the correct decision at the time to lie, therefore saving her husband’s reputation.Īgree or Disagree: “The Crucible straddles two different worlds to make one, but it is not history in the usual sense of the word, but a moral, political and psychological construct that floats on the fluid emotions of both eras.” -Arthur Miller The Crucible is a cautionary tale, still applicable today.Ĭrucible (n) a container in which substances are heated to very high temperatures Why is the title apt?.Play set two centuries earlier in 1690’s.Written in the 1950’s as a response to the McCarthyism, the “hunt” for Communists during the Red Scare.