Stradlater's Essay (Catcher In The Rye)

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Holden’s Essay for Stradlater Towards the beginning of the book, Stradlater gives directions on how to go about writing this essay. The direction are as follows: “Anything descriptive. A room. Or a house. Or something you once lived in or something – you know. Just as long as it’s descriptive as hell. Just don’t do it too good, is all.” Holden tore up the essay because he was upset that Stradlater didn’t appreciate it. Along with that, Holden hated Stradlater pointing out the faults. As soon as Stradlater said “You always do everything backasswards,” and “No wonder you’re flunking the hell out of here,” Holden asked for the essay. Instead of receiving the essay from Stradlater, Holden grabbed it out of his hands ferociously Stradlater’s descriptive essay As a kid, everyone enjoys to hold something extremely dear to them. This special thing may be a bear or blanket. For my brother, it was a baseball mitt he owned. The mitt was brown and made by Easton. The fingers fit perfectly around a 3 year-olds hand. Jack loved to throw and catch with the glove. He felt like he was on top of the world. The mitt was extremely light, made with brand new leather that came straight from St. Louis. The tip of the thumb had a bit of a tear in it when Jack first bought it but he didn’t care because he had full affection for the mitt. Overtime, the mitt became more of a baseball utensil for Jack and Jack began to write on it. He used green ink to scribe all over it. Jack tended to write on the fingers of the mitt. The poems were magnificent. The green shade fit perfectly with the brown because the green almost looked as if it was grass stains from far away. The green was not a distraction to anyone but Jack. The palm of the glove had a gigantic “E” on it which stood for Easton. Below the “E”, there was small lettering that said “made in St. Louis”. Below that, the glove said

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