Catcher in the Rye 9-10

The blog option I chose was option 1. The connection between the article above and the baseball mitt in The Catcher in the Rye was that they were both very small items and things, the baseball mitt in Catcher in the Rye and the rattle in the article above. But they both ended up showing a much deeper meaning in the reading. The baseball mitt was Holden’s brother’s mitt who died, so the baseball mitt means a lot to Holden and is not just a glove, it is something that will stay with Holden for forever to remember his brother. The rattling noise in the other passage shows that the rattling noise that cannot be fixed provides a much deeper meaning in life with things people might be going through in their life that just cannot be fixed.  Like maybe losing a brother just like Holden did. The rattling noise is such a simple problem but the writer uses that problem to create much deeper meanings and much deeper problems and pushes the writing forward by saying things like: “The cancer you survived, but leaves you feeling unsettled.” “Your rattle.” This article is really about hard, deep problems that you just cannot overcome or cannot fix. The second half of this article could definitely apply to Holden because the baseball mitt is the rattle and Holden’s brother dying is the much deeper, more complex problem that can be taken from such a smaller item or smaller problem. This is Holden’s “rattle.”