A) What is the narrative point of view? Justify using evidence from the text. What is the effect of this narrative point of view on the reader?
B) Who is the main character? What is happening to him?
C) Who may Allie be? What may have happened to him? INFER using evidence from the text.
D) What is the protagonist's personality like? Justify using evidence from the text.
E) What is paradoxical about the protagonist's reactions?
F) Which one is the CLIMAX of the novel? Which one is the turning point?
G) Who is Phoebe? What is the relationship with the protagonist like?
H) Explore the symbol of the carrousel. What does it represent? Think about the protagonist's relation with this symbol and Phoebe's relation with it.
I) Analyze the ending of the novel. What is the resolution like? Where is the protagonist? What has happened to him?
J) What is ironic about Holden's relationship with society (eg, school) and his family? What is his main fear OR what does he hate most?
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