Week 2: J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
Week
2 J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
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(1919-2010)
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“我的小說不能被拍成電影”
An
American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for
more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and
gave his last interview in 1980.
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Salinger
was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary
school. Several were published in Story magazine[1] in the early 1940s before
he began serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine,
which became home to much of his later work. In 1951, his novel The Catcher
in the Rye was an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent
alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was
influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2] The novel remains widely
read and controversial,[notes 1] selling around 250,000 copies a year.
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The
success of The
Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger
became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed Catcher with
a short story collection, Nine Stories
(1953); a volume containing a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961); and a volume containing two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
(1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16,
1924", appeared in The New Yorker on
June 19, 1965.
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Afterward,
Salinger struggled with unwanted attention, including a legal battle in the
1980s with biographer Ian Hamilton and the release in the late 1990s of
memoirs written by two people close to him: Joyce Maynard, an ex-lover; and
Margaret Salinger, his daughter. In 1996, a small publisher announced a deal
with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book form, but amid
the ensuing publicity the release was indefinitely delayed.[3] He made
headlines around the globe in June 2009 when he filed a lawsuit against
another writer for copyright infringement resulting from that writer's use of
one of the characters from The Catcher in the Rye.[4] Salinger died of natural
causes on January 27, 2010, at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.[5][6][7]
In November 2013, three unpublished stories by Salinger were briefly posted
online. One of the stories, called "The Ocean Full of Bowling
Balls," is said to be a prequel to The Catcher in the Rye. It is
stipulated in Salinger's will that these stories are not to be published
until fifty years after his death.
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“叛逃的青春”
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為何逃? 逃去哪? 有沒有成功?
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Chap.
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“The
mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the
mark of the mature is that he wants to live humbly for one.” Wilhelm Stekel
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口語化的筆調
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故意產生文法上的錯誤
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Initiation
is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society.
It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its
formal components…
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“Sort
of…”
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(informal)
語氣帶過, 不冷場
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Give
her a buzz
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打電話
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Sip
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(Anglo-Saxon)
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Georgia Rule (2007)
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Georgia
Rule is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall and
starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, Dermot Mulroney,
Garrett Hedlund, and Cary Elwes. The original music score was composed by
John Debney. The film received negative reviews from critics, however,
several praised Huffman's and Lohan's performances.
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“Life
is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
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妄以上主之名發虛誓
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不是甚麼, 而是甚麼
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Youth
is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
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Foul
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罰球 犯規
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Foul
language
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褻瀆之語
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Profanity
(also called bad language, strong language, foul language, vulgar, swearing,
cursing, cussing, or using expletives) is a subset of a language's lexicon
that is generally considered in society to be strongly impolite or offensive.
It can show a desecration or debasement of someone or something, or show
strong or intense emotion. Profanity can take the form of words, expressions,
gestures (such as flipping the middle finger), or other social behaviours
that are construed or interpreted as insulting, rude, vulgar, obscene,
obnoxious, foul, desecrating, or other forms.[1]
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Samuel
Ullman (April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924) was an American businessman, poet,
humanitarian. He is best known today for his poem Youth which was a favorite
of General Douglas MacArthur.
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Youth
is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy
cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of
the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep
springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance
of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of
ease. This often exists in a man of
sixty more than a body of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry,
fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in
every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like
appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart
there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope,
cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you
young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit
is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are
grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the
waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
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Finding
Forester
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心靈訪客
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“All
great truths begin blasphemies.” Shaw
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“Knowledge will
forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors,
must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government
without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue
to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both”
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