[Exit Ticket] If you could give any advice to Holden, what would it be? ***Holden in the book the catcher in the rye***

The Catcher in the Rye is written in the first person, with Holden acting as both protagonist and narrator, signaling we are getting his limited, biased view of events. Except for the beginning of Chapter 1 and the entirety of Chapter 26, Holden narrates his story in the past tense, recounting the events that led to the present moment, where he is recovering at a medical facility in Los Angeles. Salinger uses dialogue to bring the reader outside Holden’s head and give an alternate perspective on the action. For example, when Holden visits Mr. Spencer, his teacher reads out loud an essay Holden wrote. The reader can make up her own mind about what kind of student Holden is, rather than taking his word for it. Similarly, the dialogue of other characters suggests alternate interpretations of events, such as when Sally tells him to “stop screaming,” even though he claims he “wasn’t even screaming,” or when Phoebe points out that he has misunderstood the Robert Burns poem “Comin’ Thro the Rye.”

Holden frequently interjects references to the second-person “you,” likening the reader to a trusted confidant. The final line of the flashback portion of the novel is “God, I wish you could’ve been there,” suggesting Holden’s loneliness would have been relieved by having a friend like the reader with him during his experiences. The second-person address also draws attention to Holden’s unreliability as a narrator. Throughout the novel, Holden tries to convince the reader to interpret events one way while simultaneously presenting evidence that the opposite interpretation is correct. For example, he frequently insists how well he knows people – “The thing is, you didn’t know Stradlater. I knew him,” or “I know old Jane like a book.” However, his interactions with Stradlater, and his reluctance to contact Jane, suggest he is neither as intimate nor comfortable with them as he’d like the reader to believe. He also makes several references to how much he hates movies, and thinks his brother D.B. is a “prostitute” for writing for them, yet he mentions going to the movies several times. In these ways, Holden’s attempts to control the reader’s impression of him end up revealing who he

Explanation:

the answer is "began" because it is a action that can be done