Holden is more amused than angered by Ossenburger. In fact, you'll find that most of his descriptions of the phonies he hates are filled more with wisecracks than with angry statements. He reaches his room and settles down to read a well-known serious book, Out of Africa, about life in East Africa.
Mention of the book gives him the opportunity to knock himself once again, this time with a sentence that contradicts itself. Someone who reads a lot can't be illiterate, by definition. But Holden is using the word to express other people's standards. What he means is, "I don't read what they want me to read, but I read a lot.
Holden knows what he wants to do, and he usually does it. That should make him feel good about himself. Suzie is illiterate, so she can not read. If you learn to read, you are not illiterate. Illiterate is the opposite of literate. Taken to mean you are illiterate and to "go read a book" would probably improve yourself. That is highly unlikely. Illiterate is defined as being unable to read or write, or demonstrating a very limited education and level of literacy.
Were we all illiterate, we would be unable to read this question or answer it. Illiterate people are unable to read or write. Read and write. People who are unable to read and write. They learn to read. An illiterate person is unable to read or write. Jimmy was illiterate; he quickly learnt to read and write when he started failing English.
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He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class.
They really meant it. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. Sitting in his hotel room in New York, Holden feels he is sunk, and he starts talking to Allie. Hurry up.
I did. By the time Stradlater returns from his date with Jane, Holden is sure that he has slept with her, and Stradlater helps him to think so, without being actually caddish. Stradlater asks for the composition; he is furious when he reads it, because it is about a baseball glove rather than a room or a house. Holden tears the composition up.
He has a fight with Stradlater and gets a bloody nose. Holden goes to say goodbye to Mr. Spencer, his nice old history teacher. It worries the boy that while his teacher is saying edifying valedictory things to him, he becomes acutely concerned about the winter quarters of the ducks in the Central Park lagoon.
I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away. On his second night, he has an irresistible impulse to go to Central Park and see what the ducks are doing. In his avidity to find them, he pokes in the grass around the lagoon, to see if they are sleeping there, and nearly falls in the water.
No ducks. This Phoebe is one of the most exquisitely created and engaging children in any novel.
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