Outlines

>> (salinger 34)
 * I. Introduction
 * a. Hook - In //The Catcher in The Rye//, the red hunting hat is more than just a hat to Holden Caulfield, it is an object that makes him feel apart from the world.
 * b. Thesis - holden depends on the red hunting hat to be apart from crooks and phonies.
 * i. Avenue one - he wears the hat when he is frighten and nervous
 * ii. Avenue two - he wears the hat when he wants to be different from crooks and phonies
 * iii. Avenue three - he believes that only the purest people in the world that can wear it, as in not phonies and crooks.
 * II. Body One - he wears the hat when he is frightened and nervous
 * a. he putted it on after fighting Stradlater (salinger 52)
 * i. this support the thesis because stradlater is a phonies to him. he always acts clean, but he is really dirty.
 * b. he put it on when he is walking alone in New York City (salinger 88)
 * i. this support the thesis because he feels alone and cold and that he doesn't want that. so he put it on so he can be in this little world.
 * c. when he ask stradlater about where he is going with his date Jane.
 * i. this support the thesis because when he ask stradlater about where they going he said he was nervous and put the hat on.
 * III. Body Two - he wears the hat when he wants to be different from crooks and phonies
 * a. when Ackley was in his room annoying him, he put on his hat and start to mess with Ackley.(salinger 21)
 * i. This support the thesis because he was trying to get Ackley away from him. to him ackley is a phony.
 * b. He puts it on when he is done fighting with stradlater (Salinger 52)
 * i. He feels that he is not as fake as stradlater and wants to be a good person.
 * c. He put it on when he was leaving the Piano Bar (salinger 153)
 * i. He wanted to show the hat-scekc girl the hat because he was reminded of stradlater by the pianist, and wanted to get out of the phony world again.
 * IV. Body Three - he believes that only the purest people in the world can wear it, as in,not phonies and crooks.
 * a. He wants phoebe to wear it, but she wants him to wear it (stradlater 212)
 * i. He felt that phoebe was someone that he loved and she was not a crook, so she should be able to wear the cap.
 * b. Felt conformable around the hat-check lady and showed her his hat (stradlater 82)
 * i. He felt that the lady would not judge him, because she appeared to be a good person.
 * c. He put it on when he was walking through the streets of NYC, because he felt that no one at that time would care, and were even crooks (Salinger 88)
 * i. Holden felt that there were not many phonies and crooks at the time that he put it on.
 * V. Conclusion
 * a. Restate thesis -Holden depends on the red hunting hat to be apart from crooks and phonies.
 * i. Avenue one - he wears the hat when he is frightened
 * b. He is mostly frightened by the crooks of the world
 * ii. Avenue two - he wears the hat when he wants to be different from crooks and phonies
 * c. the crooks irritate holden to the point that he wants to be away from them.
 * iii. Avenue three - he believes that only the purest people in the world can wear it, as in,not phonies and crooks.
 * d. He believes that the good people left in this world were able to were the hat that separates them fro the crooks.
 * iv. Concluding statement -Holden needed his red hunting hat throughout the story as an object to separate him from the crooks and make him feel unique.