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Notes on The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird?

^Title.
If anyone has any past experience with the book that can help me out, it'd be greatly appreciated.

August 22, 2014

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Rejigigas

Pay attention to Holden's Red Hat. Then compare that to the color of his younger brother's hair.
Then implement the weather that happens to both these things.
What's the same?

Reply August 22, 2014
chiuricha

Shmoop and sparknotes

Reply August 22, 2014
betaboi101

@DaBrownGuy:

Just build off their ideas but then maybe add your own twist or "take" to it and boom they're convinced that you've read the book and have your own perspective

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
DaBrownGuy

Okay.

[quote=betaboi101]As long as you're not copying and pasting every exact word and phrase from the site [b]your[/b] golden .

Got through English honors/ AP without reading a single book (I was such a lazy bum way back when )
Also managed to ace a lit class undergrad that I took a few years ago and got out of reading weekly 500-1000+ pages worth of Shakespeare plays/ plays from the 14th to current century..[/quote]

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
xDracius

Boo Radley is a big deal throughout the book, being a source of mystery and curiousity for the children, thought of by the town as a source of evil and fear. But he ultimately proves to be the biggest hero in the end.

Also Atticus is the perfect gentleman. Stress how utterly perfect he is.

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
DaBrownGuy

I'm not looking for a chunk of notes, I need some clearing up with analysis.

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
betaboi101

[quote=DaBrownGuy]When teachers see that you've gotten ideas from sparknotes it's like having a sniper's red dot on your forehead.[/quote]

As long as you're not copying and pasting every exact word and phrase from the site your golden .

Got through English honors/ AP without reading a single book (I was such a lazy bum way back when )
Also managed to ace a lit class undergrad that I took a few years ago and got out of reading weekly 500-1000+ pages worth of Shakespeare plays/ plays from the 14th to current century..

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
Qoltera

The Catcher in the Rye is about Holden Caulfield who leaves school a few days early and explores his hometown and undergoes a transformation where he starts to see good...after a talk with his sister...or something. TKAM is about a white family who's father chooses to be a lawyer for a crippled African American who was falsely convicted of having done something wrong to a white girl...that's all I remember haha

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
zeck96

Does chat section still exist?

www.basilmarket.com/show/forum/6

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
DaBrownGuy

[quote=betaboi101]Does sparknotes still exist?[/quote]

When teachers see that you've gotten ideas from sparknotes it's like having a sniper's red dot on your forehead.

Reply August 22, 2014 - edited
betaboi101

Does sparknotes still exist?

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/themes.html

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