Luke+Stephens

Dear Mama and Papa, I am writing to you about me and that Goddamn school you sent me to. I have been open with you about hating that place frum the moment you sent me there. Notice how i have said that place, not this place. This is because I am no longer part of that school. I have recently flunked out and will not be returning for the next semester. Even though it looks bad, i am not totally dissapointed in what has happened. I just didn't fit into that hell hole of a place. My roommate was the exact opposite of me. Sure we got along fine but we didn't do much more than just get along. He was a big jock moron who was nice enough, but couldn't have an in-depth conversation about nothing. I really do think he's nice and all, but he can be a bastard at times. I made very few friends while at this place. One kid who always hungout with me was an acquaintence, not even a friend. Ackley's his name, and he always thinks he is gracing you with his presence, but all people really want is that bastard to ;eave them alone. He doesn't catch on to this, which is annoying, just like everything else about the kid. He has a pretty flat personality, is not very smart, and the worst part about him has to be his Goddamn terrible hygeine. He just sits around popping pimples and wiping his greasey as hell hair all over the place. It is quite disguisting. I was even a pretty big misfit on the fencing team. I wasn't even on the team, i was the Goddamn manager, and i wasn't even good at that. This one real recent time, we were on our way to a matchand i left the equipment at the Goddamn station, which wasn't entirely my fault cause i had so much other stuff to look after, but if you talked to the team it was squarely on my shoulders. I was ridiculed the whole Goddamn ride back to school, and i can't say i didn't totally deserve it but i didn't deserve all they put me through. Anyway, i will be coming home soon and i am just giving you a warning now. Your Son, Holden My roommate Stradlater, the ladies man.

My acquaintance, Ackley, the not so ladies man. Wiki2 [|http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks?category=Homepage-logged_out&action=ClickSubmitSearch#I%20don't%20wanna%20be%20Gavin%20Degraw/all/1] (use 1st song on list) [|http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks?category=Homepage-logged_out&action=ClickSubmitSearch#threw%20it%20on%20the%20ground/all/1] (use 1st song on list) [|http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks?category=Homepage-logged_out&action=ClickSubmitSearch#popular/all/1] (1st song by Huey Mack, 3rd song on the list)

I don't wanna be realtes to the book and Holdens view on phonies. He believes that a lot of people are fakes and don't act like who they really are. The song I Don't Wanna Be is about how Gavin Degraw does not want to conform to the ideal guy that the girl has imagined and wants him to turn into but he is not. Threw it on the ground, even though is a joke song, relates to the book quite nicely. The underlying theme about the song is the system. Now in the song it is a paranoid thought more than a real one, but it is still the same thing as Holden's view. The system has this image of what he should be, but the guy in the song keeps rejecting it and "Throwing it on the Ground." He doesn't want to fit the mold that has been set for him so he rejects everything, like Holden rejecting the idea of fitting the mold that Pencey has set for its students. The song Popular relates to how kids are supposed to be popular and everyone wants it. This is the opposite of Holden's view on popularity, he doesn't care if he is considered popular in Pencey or not. Unlike all the other people at Pencey who want to be loved by everyone and be the popular kid. I feel that holden would like the Beastie Boys as a band. becasue there songs are very anti-conformity and fighting against the mold society as set. I think his favorite song by them would be "You Gotta Fight" where they sing about how they do everythnig the wrong way but they do it just to do it because if they don't they will lose the right to "party", or to live a free undictated life.