Catcher in the Rye

Hmmm... i'm not really sure exactly how i feel about this book at this point, so far it's kind of boring and hard to get into. But then again we are only three chapters in. I do know that I like the style in which the book is written, stream of conciousness or whatever it is called. I've never really read a book that was written like this and i think that it's interesting to me because its easier to connect with Holden in that you can see exactly every thought that is going through his head as every event in the book is happening. And I also think that you can see more clearly who the author is as a person because the thoughts that he is giving Holden probably reflect his own thoughts and feelings.

Morrie movie assignment

Well... I'm going to go ahead and start off by saying that so far... I HATE THE MOVIE! I don't know why but the actor playing Mitch really pisses me off, he's not how I imagined him at all. But anyways, one of the major differences between the book and the movie so far is that instead of telling Ted Koppel on Nightline that he wasn't going to be able to wipe his own ass, he tells Mitch in the very first meeting. And also, in the movie it seems like they just took a few notable Morrie quotes from random places in the book and threw them all into the first Tuesday... this also made me angry >:( . Also, the movie kind of gives a little inside look at Mitch and Janine's relationship, and Morrie and Mitch even have a little conversation about their marital status, and I don't think that has happened yet so far in the book.

The similarities between the book and movie are that all of the characters names are the same in the movie as they are in the book (That would be weird if they weren't because they are all real people). Also, I noticed that they actually used part of the original Nightline clip for when Mitch finds out about Morrie being sick when he sees him on T.V.

Morrie interview

My first reaction upon watching this interview was that it was hard to tell that he was actually dying. He really just looked and acted like any other old person in a wheelchair. Most of the time when I think of someone who is dying, I think about someone who is sort of "checked out" mentally and physically, definitely without the energy to do an interview on national television.

It also made me think of how my grandma was before she died. It seemed like the closer and closer she came to death the more uninvolved and detached she became with the world around her. It made me think about how this contrasted Morrie's last few months. Her death is really the only significant experience with someone dying that i've had in my life, and before i started reading this book, I believed that it was inevitable that all people were destined to go through the same process of slowly losing touch with the world and the people around them before they die.