Post by Sydney Carton on Jul 12, 2011 22:35:06 GMT -8
Quote:"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Name: Holden Caulfield
Alias: None
Age: 17
Film/Show/Game/Book/Comic: The Catcher in the Rye
Species: Human
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 170 lbs
Basic Appearance: Holden is very tall for his age. His body is slim and lanky, and his eyes are of a greenish-blue hue, and his hair is a light brown. The kid wears whatever clothes he can get his hands on, but the one thing that stays consistent is his red hunter's hat. It stands to symbolize the loss of his young brother when he was barely in his teenage years.
Mutations:N/A
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Personality: The most noticeable of Holden’s “peculiarities” is how extremely judgmental he is of almost everything and everybody. He criticizes and philosophizes about people who are boring, people who are insecure, and, above all, people who are “phony.” Holden carries this penchant for passing judgment to such an extreme that it often becomes extremely funny, such as when he speculates that people are so crass that someone will probably write “fuck you” on his tombstone. Holden applies the term “phony” not to people who are insincere but to those who are too conventional or too typical—for instance, teachers who “act like” teachers by assuming a different demeanor in class than they do in conversation, or people who dress and act like the other members of their social class. While Holden uses the label “phony” to imply that such people are superficial, his use of the term actually indicates that his own perceptions of other people are superficial. In almost every case, he rejects more complex judgments in favor of simple categorical ones.
In any case, he believes his real purpose in life is to maintain that childhood innocence.
Enemies: None yet.
Allies: None yet.
Family: Phoebe, his parents
Role: He is a protester.
History:Holden’s story begins on the Saturday following the end of classes at the Pencey prep school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Pencey is Holden’s fourth school; he has already failed out of three others. At Pencey, he has failed four out of five of his classes and has received notice that he is being expelled, but he is not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday. He visits his elderly history teacher, Spencer, to say goodbye, but when Spencer tries to reprimand him for his poor academic performance, Holden becomes annoyed.
Back in the dormitory, Holden is further irritated by his unhygienic neighbor, Ackley, and by his own roommate, Stradlater. Stradlater spends the evening on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl whom Holden used to date and whom he still admires. During the course of the evening, Holden grows increasingly nervous about Stradlater’s taking Jane out, and when Stradlater returns, Holden questions him insistently about whether he tried to have sex with her. Stradlater teases Holden, who flies into a rage and attacks Stradlater. Stradlater pins Holden down and bloodies his nose. Holden decides that he’s had enough of Pencey and will go to Manhattan three days early, stay in a hotel, and not tell his parents that he is back.
On the train to New York, Holden meets the mother of one of his fellow Pencey students. Though he thinks this student is a complete “bastard,” he tells the woman made-up stories about how shy her son is and how well respected he is at school. When he arrives at Penn Station, he goes into a phone booth and considers calling several people, but for various reasons he decides against it. He gets in a cab and asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go when the lagoon freezes, but his question annoys the driver. Holden has the cab driver take him to the Edmont Hotel, where he checks himself in.
From his room at the Edmont, Holden can see into the rooms of some of the guests in the opposite wing. He observes a man putting on silk stockings, high heels, a bra, a corset, and an evening gown. He also sees a man and a woman in another room taking turns spitting mouthfuls of their drinks into each other’s faces and laughing hysterically.
As Holden goes out to the lobby, he starts to think about Jane Gallagher and, in a flashback, recounts how he got to know her. They met while spending a summer vacation in Maine, played golf and checkers, and held hands at the movies. One afternoon, during a game of checkers, her stepfather came onto the porch where they were playing, and when he left Jane began to cry. Holden had moved to sit beside her and kissed her all over her face, but she wouldn’t let him kiss her on the mouth. That was the closest they came to “necking.”
Holden leaves the Edmont and takes a cab to Ernie’s jazz club in Greenwich Village. Again, he asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go in the winter, and this cabbie is even more irritable than the first one. Holden sits alone at a table in Ernie’s and observes the other patrons with distaste. He runs into Lillian Simmons, one of his older brother’s former girlfriends, who invites him to sit with her and her date. Holden says he has to meet someone, leaves, and walks back to the Edmont.
After his misadventures, he then decides to sneak into his own apartment building and wake his sister, Phoebe. He is forced to admit to Phoebe that he was kicked out of school, which makes her mad at him. When he tries to explain why he hates school, she accuses him of not liking anything. He tells her his fantasy of being “the catcher in the rye,” a person who catches little children as they are about to fall off of a cliff. Phoebe tells him that he has misremembered the poem that he took the image from: Robert Burns’s poem says “if a body meet a body, coming through the rye,” not “catch a body.”
Holden goes to Phoebe’s school and sends her a note saying that he is leaving home for good and that she should meet him at lunchtime at the museum. When Phoebe arrives, she is carrying a suitcase full of clothes, and she asks Holden to take her with him. He refuses angrily, and she cries and then refuses to speak to him. Knowing she will follow him, he walks to the zoo, and then takes her across the park to a carousel. He buys her a ticket and watches her ride it. It starts to rain heavily, but Holden is so happy watching his sister ride the carousel that he is close to tears.
However, one day, as he ventures out into the forest where he last saw Sally Hayes, Holden found himself going deeper and deeper into it, until he couldn't turn back. Fireflies were the only light he could see, and thinking that he could stay away from his parents and his world of "phonies", he decided to explore a bit more into this "forest". Little did he know that this forest would lead him to a circus...a terrible, terrible circus.
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With a few more tentative steps, Holden noticed that the forest was gradually becoming darker and darker. What time was it anyway? Whatever.
It wasn't like he cared anyway...at least he'd been able to see Phoebe one last time.
This was just going to become yet another of his misadventures, like in Manhattan. From a distance, he could hear the faint sound of poor tortured souls screaming their lungs out.
"Where the hell am I?" Holden muttered to himself. He knew the forest well, and the last time he was there, there was nothing he'd ever heard like that. Nothing so...bloodcurdling.
The 17-year old turned towards the sound of this screaming, eventually reaching the Circus itself. He raised an eyebrow in disbelief, as he took off his red hunter's hat. What was going on? As he stepped closer, the screams became louder. As much as he hated it...it hit him close to home. What if those screams had coming from his little sister? Peeking in through a slight crack in the fabric of the tent, Holden nearly hurled at the sight, taking a few staggering steps back.
This was horrible!
Name: Holden Caulfield
Alias: None
Age: 17
Film/Show/Game/Book/Comic: The Catcher in the Rye
Species: Human
Height: 6’ 2”
Weight: 170 lbs
Basic Appearance: Holden is very tall for his age. His body is slim and lanky, and his eyes are of a greenish-blue hue, and his hair is a light brown. The kid wears whatever clothes he can get his hands on, but the one thing that stays consistent is his red hunter's hat. It stands to symbolize the loss of his young brother when he was barely in his teenage years.
Mutations:N/A
Picture:
Personality: The most noticeable of Holden’s “peculiarities” is how extremely judgmental he is of almost everything and everybody. He criticizes and philosophizes about people who are boring, people who are insecure, and, above all, people who are “phony.” Holden carries this penchant for passing judgment to such an extreme that it often becomes extremely funny, such as when he speculates that people are so crass that someone will probably write “fuck you” on his tombstone. Holden applies the term “phony” not to people who are insincere but to those who are too conventional or too typical—for instance, teachers who “act like” teachers by assuming a different demeanor in class than they do in conversation, or people who dress and act like the other members of their social class. While Holden uses the label “phony” to imply that such people are superficial, his use of the term actually indicates that his own perceptions of other people are superficial. In almost every case, he rejects more complex judgments in favor of simple categorical ones.
In any case, he believes his real purpose in life is to maintain that childhood innocence.
Enemies: None yet.
Allies: None yet.
Family: Phoebe, his parents
Role: He is a protester.
History:Holden’s story begins on the Saturday following the end of classes at the Pencey prep school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Pencey is Holden’s fourth school; he has already failed out of three others. At Pencey, he has failed four out of five of his classes and has received notice that he is being expelled, but he is not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday. He visits his elderly history teacher, Spencer, to say goodbye, but when Spencer tries to reprimand him for his poor academic performance, Holden becomes annoyed.
Back in the dormitory, Holden is further irritated by his unhygienic neighbor, Ackley, and by his own roommate, Stradlater. Stradlater spends the evening on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl whom Holden used to date and whom he still admires. During the course of the evening, Holden grows increasingly nervous about Stradlater’s taking Jane out, and when Stradlater returns, Holden questions him insistently about whether he tried to have sex with her. Stradlater teases Holden, who flies into a rage and attacks Stradlater. Stradlater pins Holden down and bloodies his nose. Holden decides that he’s had enough of Pencey and will go to Manhattan three days early, stay in a hotel, and not tell his parents that he is back.
On the train to New York, Holden meets the mother of one of his fellow Pencey students. Though he thinks this student is a complete “bastard,” he tells the woman made-up stories about how shy her son is and how well respected he is at school. When he arrives at Penn Station, he goes into a phone booth and considers calling several people, but for various reasons he decides against it. He gets in a cab and asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go when the lagoon freezes, but his question annoys the driver. Holden has the cab driver take him to the Edmont Hotel, where he checks himself in.
From his room at the Edmont, Holden can see into the rooms of some of the guests in the opposite wing. He observes a man putting on silk stockings, high heels, a bra, a corset, and an evening gown. He also sees a man and a woman in another room taking turns spitting mouthfuls of their drinks into each other’s faces and laughing hysterically.
As Holden goes out to the lobby, he starts to think about Jane Gallagher and, in a flashback, recounts how he got to know her. They met while spending a summer vacation in Maine, played golf and checkers, and held hands at the movies. One afternoon, during a game of checkers, her stepfather came onto the porch where they were playing, and when he left Jane began to cry. Holden had moved to sit beside her and kissed her all over her face, but she wouldn’t let him kiss her on the mouth. That was the closest they came to “necking.”
Holden leaves the Edmont and takes a cab to Ernie’s jazz club in Greenwich Village. Again, he asks the cab driver where the ducks in Central Park go in the winter, and this cabbie is even more irritable than the first one. Holden sits alone at a table in Ernie’s and observes the other patrons with distaste. He runs into Lillian Simmons, one of his older brother’s former girlfriends, who invites him to sit with her and her date. Holden says he has to meet someone, leaves, and walks back to the Edmont.
After his misadventures, he then decides to sneak into his own apartment building and wake his sister, Phoebe. He is forced to admit to Phoebe that he was kicked out of school, which makes her mad at him. When he tries to explain why he hates school, she accuses him of not liking anything. He tells her his fantasy of being “the catcher in the rye,” a person who catches little children as they are about to fall off of a cliff. Phoebe tells him that he has misremembered the poem that he took the image from: Robert Burns’s poem says “if a body meet a body, coming through the rye,” not “catch a body.”
Holden goes to Phoebe’s school and sends her a note saying that he is leaving home for good and that she should meet him at lunchtime at the museum. When Phoebe arrives, she is carrying a suitcase full of clothes, and she asks Holden to take her with him. He refuses angrily, and she cries and then refuses to speak to him. Knowing she will follow him, he walks to the zoo, and then takes her across the park to a carousel. He buys her a ticket and watches her ride it. It starts to rain heavily, but Holden is so happy watching his sister ride the carousel that he is close to tears.
However, one day, as he ventures out into the forest where he last saw Sally Hayes, Holden found himself going deeper and deeper into it, until he couldn't turn back. Fireflies were the only light he could see, and thinking that he could stay away from his parents and his world of "phonies", he decided to explore a bit more into this "forest". Little did he know that this forest would lead him to a circus...a terrible, terrible circus.
Sample Post:
With a few more tentative steps, Holden noticed that the forest was gradually becoming darker and darker. What time was it anyway? Whatever.
It wasn't like he cared anyway...at least he'd been able to see Phoebe one last time.
This was just going to become yet another of his misadventures, like in Manhattan. From a distance, he could hear the faint sound of poor tortured souls screaming their lungs out.
"Where the hell am I?" Holden muttered to himself. He knew the forest well, and the last time he was there, there was nothing he'd ever heard like that. Nothing so...bloodcurdling.
The 17-year old turned towards the sound of this screaming, eventually reaching the Circus itself. He raised an eyebrow in disbelief, as he took off his red hunter's hat. What was going on? As he stepped closer, the screams became louder. As much as he hated it...it hit him close to home. What if those screams had coming from his little sister? Peeking in through a slight crack in the fabric of the tent, Holden nearly hurled at the sight, taking a few staggering steps back.
This was horrible!
