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The writer of the article, "Your Rattle No One Else Can Hear?", pushes forth a greater idea then just complaining about a sound heard in her new car. In the beginning of the article, both her and her husband heard the rattling sound that was made by her car. Shortly after, the narrator decides to go to the car dealership so that they can help her with this issue. The person at the dealership was in the car with the narrator as it was driven on various roads, but he cannot hear the annoying rattling noise. He looked at her as if she was crazy because he couldn't believe there was anything wrong with her car.
The message of this article everyone has a rattle in their life. Whether that rattle is the chronic pain that doesn't go away from an injury, the cancer you survived, but leaves you feeling unsettled, or the heartbreak you should be passed already. The narrator validates all of the readers rattles. She believes you and doesn't think you are crazy. The writer wants the reader to take comfort by the fact that she understands what a lot of the audience may be going through in their lives. She appeals to the readers sensitive side when she talks about this.
The second half of the article applies to Holden in Catcher in the Rye, when the narrator talks about "the chronic pain that doesn't go away from a long ago injury". This applies to Holden because when his little brother Allie died, he talked about how he was so upset that he broke all of the windows in the garage. Holden says, "My hand still hurts me once in a while, when it rains and all, and I can't make a real fist anymore..." (51). What we can conclude from this is, even though his injury occurred some time ago, it pains him to make a real fist and it reminds him of his brother dying. This is Holden Caulfield's rattle.
I like your post! When you brought up how Holden was so upset when his brother died that he broke all his windows and that he can't make a full fist anymore, it made me think that he could also have a different type of pain in his life-- the pain of losing his brother. Holden says in chapter 11 that, "she was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it" (Salinger 87). Maybe he doesn't show people the baseball mitt to anyone because it pains him to do it, since the death of Allie has affected him so much. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteI agree that it most likely brings up painful memories that Holden would just like to discard. He seems like a very closed in person and often builds a wall to protect his emotions. Why do you think Holden talked to Jane about this if it pains him so much? Also do you believe Holden will ever be as close as he was with Jane in the future?
DeleteI thought that the connection you made between the rattling of the car and Holden in Catcher in the Rye was strong and really went deep in seeking out the true underlying meaning of the article.What do you think the article is trying to tell you when it talks about how the husband can hear the rattle as well as his wife? Does he have the same connection to his wife or a different rattle of his own?
ReplyDeleteI believe the article was trying to tell us that even though the husband and the wife heard the rattle it doesn't mean they're crazy, they know what they heard and they want people to believe them. Also, the wife and husband do have a connection of their own, but every individual person has many of their own personal rattles.
DeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog post! I really like how you connected Holdens pain from his brother to the rattleing noise of the car. Ib the beginning of the second paragraph you say... "The message of this article everyone has a rattle in their life. Whether that rattle is the chronic pain that doesn't go away from an injury, the cancer you survived, but leaves you feeling unsettled, or the heartbreak you should be passed already." When i read this sentence about how you interpreted the message of the story, it made me think how true that is and what the rattle in my life is. At first it was a little difficult for me to figure out what the text was about. How where you able to come up with the amazing method that you did?
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