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Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Oh, Holden
Hello, Lovelies!
I read the book The Catcher in the Rye a few summers ago and it has since been one of my all-time favorite books. I find the story to be very real and raw, but also portrays a very complex character in a very un-complex way. It's this simplicity that J.D. Salinger writes with that makes the story so enjoyable. It is more relatable that way. I like the way you fall in love with this character based on his honesty and blatant thoughts. I wish more people in the world were this way. They;re all so hard to figure out. But not Holden. His simple sincerity makes the reader fall completely in love with him. J.D. Salinger's writing style is one of my favorites and I hope to read more of his works in the future. To finish up my little thought, I'm going to add a couple of my favorite quotes from the book. Hope you enjoy.
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have do to, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
"I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
"I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it."
All my love,
Hailey
I read the book The Catcher in the Rye a few summers ago and it has since been one of my all-time favorite books. I find the story to be very real and raw, but also portrays a very complex character in a very un-complex way. It's this simplicity that J.D. Salinger writes with that makes the story so enjoyable. It is more relatable that way. I like the way you fall in love with this character based on his honesty and blatant thoughts. I wish more people in the world were this way. They;re all so hard to figure out. But not Holden. His simple sincerity makes the reader fall completely in love with him. J.D. Salinger's writing style is one of my favorites and I hope to read more of his works in the future. To finish up my little thought, I'm going to add a couple of my favorite quotes from the book. Hope you enjoy.
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have do to, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
"I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it."
"I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it."
All my love,
Hailey
Monday, July 29, 2013
Mr. Fitzgerald, How Classy Of You...
Hello, Lovelies!
Recently, a film came out depicting one of the most well-known books in literary history, The Great Gatsby. I read the book in my English class this past year and fell in love with the story as well as the brilliant writer behind it all. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a hopeless romantic, coined the term "Jazz Age" of the 1920s. He is one of the most famous writers from that time and his novels like The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned are known as famous works from the Great Depression era. He was a phenomenal writer who wrote complex stories about rich and elite New Yorkers. He had his own semi-glamorous lifestyle like his known friendship with Ernest Hemingway as well as his romantic relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of my favorite authors and I thought I'd share a few of my favorite quotes from his works. Enjoy!
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and that is the beginning of everything." - Fitzgerald talking about his wife, Zelda
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again."
"Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having, she'd have waited for you.' No, sir. The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." - This Side of Paradise
"Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him." - A New Leaf
All my love,
Hailey
Recently, a film came out depicting one of the most well-known books in literary history, The Great Gatsby. I read the book in my English class this past year and fell in love with the story as well as the brilliant writer behind it all. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a hopeless romantic, coined the term "Jazz Age" of the 1920s. He is one of the most famous writers from that time and his novels like The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned are known as famous works from the Great Depression era. He was a phenomenal writer who wrote complex stories about rich and elite New Yorkers. He had his own semi-glamorous lifestyle like his known friendship with Ernest Hemingway as well as his romantic relationship with Zelda Fitzgerald. Mr. Fitzgerald is one of my favorite authors and I thought I'd share a few of my favorite quotes from his works. Enjoy!
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and that is the beginning of everything." - Fitzgerald talking about his wife, Zelda
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
"I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again."
"Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having, she'd have waited for you.' No, sir. The girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." - This Side of Paradise
"Her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him." - A New Leaf
All my love,
Hailey
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