Fear of failure. That's one of the reasons J.D. Salinger hid himself after becoming widely known. We all know that he was running away from fame and people's attention, but what exactly would make him really want to do that? It seems to me that he was afraid, if not bothered, by people's judgement. To me, he was afraid to be famous and to have his privacy taken away. Trying to avoid it, he decided to restrict himself rather than live a life restricted by others.
The connections we can make in comparison to Salinger's life and his book is that he flunked out of schools. He probably wasn't the best model of behavior for a kid.
Salinger appealed to people who thought simililarly to Clausfield, majority of them being adolescents. It was a revolutionary rebel book.
quarta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2010
quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2010
Connection to Holden
Holden Caulfield demonstrates to be a very observant person. He not always expresses that, and his behavior almost hardly never shows what he really thinks about something. I think that is my main connection with Holden: the hypocrisy of not liking something, or thinking bad about something, but even though living with it, without showing it to others. I believe my reason would be different thought. Holden seems to do that because he couldn't care less. I do that because I try to keep a state of welfare around me. I think about a lot of stuff, and I would be lying if I said I don't judge people. But the difference is that I don't let my judgment reach my behavior. In other words: I try to treat people equally.
Holden really dislikes movies and criticizes society and the way people act. I feel connected with that sentiment on movies, and consequently the way people act. I really think people are "phony", like Holden would say, in the movies, and it makes me mad that the movies influence people to act like that in real life. Movies are normally too dramatic for no reason, and people take those stories as facts. Then, inevitable, people start basing their lives on the movies! And it should be the opposite: movies based in real life. People wish they were living in a movie picture, so they add drama and problems that they don't have, but the truth is that real life has no soundtrack.
Like Holden said, sometimes, movies make want to puke. And I really feel physically nauseated with people's attitude.
Holden really dislikes movies and criticizes society and the way people act. I feel connected with that sentiment on movies, and consequently the way people act. I really think people are "phony", like Holden would say, in the movies, and it makes me mad that the movies influence people to act like that in real life. Movies are normally too dramatic for no reason, and people take those stories as facts. Then, inevitable, people start basing their lives on the movies! And it should be the opposite: movies based in real life. People wish they were living in a movie picture, so they add drama and problems that they don't have, but the truth is that real life has no soundtrack.
Like Holden said, sometimes, movies make want to puke. And I really feel physically nauseated with people's attitude.
quarta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2010
JD Salinger speculation
The attractiveness behind reading Salinger's books is not just for his style of writing, or his profanity, but the kind person that he'd become after fame. Unlike other writers and persons who became famous, Salinger preferred to hide and get away from the media. It seems that it wasn't just his character in "The Catcher in the Rye" who didn’t like "phony people".
It is quite unusual, thought. We think that the first reaction after writing bestsellers would be to publish more books. Salinger kept writing, as far as we know, but refused to publish his work. It is believed that he wrote every morning and had finished more than 15 novels.
Obviously, if Salinger was already a living mystery, after dead he'll become a legend. If the guy was a compulsive writer that "just wrote for the heck of it", I'm sure more books will be found.
Should we expect for innovation? There is no way to know. All we can do now is to hope that the ones responsible for his heritage agree to publish the works that haven’t been published when he was alive.
It is quite unusual, thought. We think that the first reaction after writing bestsellers would be to publish more books. Salinger kept writing, as far as we know, but refused to publish his work. It is believed that he wrote every morning and had finished more than 15 novels.
Obviously, if Salinger was already a living mystery, after dead he'll become a legend. If the guy was a compulsive writer that "just wrote for the heck of it", I'm sure more books will be found.
Should we expect for innovation? There is no way to know. All we can do now is to hope that the ones responsible for his heritage agree to publish the works that haven’t been published when he was alive.
sexta-feira, 11 de setembro de 2009
quinta-feira, 10 de setembro de 2009
terça-feira, 8 de setembro de 2009
Others Shoes Experiment
Me, Alec, Jordan and Adam were ready to spend our Labor Day holyday as Star Wars fans. I was dressing as Darth Vader, Alec dressed up as a Stormtrooper and Jordan dressed himself as a crazy random farm guy. Adam would film and take pictures of us and the people’s reaction.
Even before reaching our destination we could notice reactions from people in other cars passing by. The Crazy Random Farm Guy was driving the car with the Stormtrooper by his side. Darth Vader and the Camera Boy were in the back seats. It was impossible not to laugh. Imagine yourself driving to your home in a normal day and all the sudden a car filled with people dressing as Star Wars characters passes by you. I would kill myself laughing. And that is what other people were doing.
We arrived at the mall and we could already see people’s reaction. An old lady stopped us to ask “OK, what is that all about?”, very nicely and controlling herself not to laugh. Adam answered “We are looking for the Star Wars convention”. “May the force be with you” added Darth Vader. In the very next moment, a security guard truck passed us by and the guard that was in it starred at us. But then he moved on.
We entered in the sport’s shop, which was crowded. It was difficult for me to SEE people’s reaction because of my Darth Vader mask. But it was easy to feel that people were looking at us. We headed to the golf section, and we TRIED to act like we were interested in the products. A boy was playing mini golf, he stopped. He was definitely scarred. We would walk through the shop and people would react differently. Mostly of them laughed, but there were some that looked at us with that face that clearly says “you are retarded”. Majority of the little kids were confused or scared. One kid was starring at me and I said “May the force be with you”. He didn’t respond. I have to check if I really said that in English. It was definitely darthvadersih.
When we left the sport shop and entered in the actually mall, I gently went to the direction of a group of children. They were scared. We sat on the food place. It was really funny, because everybody was looking at us. We stood up and continued to walk.
To be continued.
Even before reaching our destination we could notice reactions from people in other cars passing by. The Crazy Random Farm Guy was driving the car with the Stormtrooper by his side. Darth Vader and the Camera Boy were in the back seats. It was impossible not to laugh. Imagine yourself driving to your home in a normal day and all the sudden a car filled with people dressing as Star Wars characters passes by you. I would kill myself laughing. And that is what other people were doing.
We arrived at the mall and we could already see people’s reaction. An old lady stopped us to ask “OK, what is that all about?”, very nicely and controlling herself not to laugh. Adam answered “We are looking for the Star Wars convention”. “May the force be with you” added Darth Vader. In the very next moment, a security guard truck passed us by and the guard that was in it starred at us. But then he moved on.
We entered in the sport’s shop, which was crowded. It was difficult for me to SEE people’s reaction because of my Darth Vader mask. But it was easy to feel that people were looking at us. We headed to the golf section, and we TRIED to act like we were interested in the products. A boy was playing mini golf, he stopped. He was definitely scarred. We would walk through the shop and people would react differently. Mostly of them laughed, but there were some that looked at us with that face that clearly says “you are retarded”. Majority of the little kids were confused or scared. One kid was starring at me and I said “May the force be with you”. He didn’t respond. I have to check if I really said that in English. It was definitely darthvadersih.
When we left the sport shop and entered in the actually mall, I gently went to the direction of a group of children. They were scared. We sat on the food place. It was really funny, because everybody was looking at us. We stood up and continued to walk.
To be continued.
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