CITR+Ch+12

ch 12 taylor wooley


 * Holden gets into a "vomity" cab with a driver named Horwitz. He asks his question about the ducks and where they go in the winter, but Horwitz doesn't know.
 * As Holden exits the cab, Horwitz insists that the fish are taken care of, because Mother Nature wouldn't leave them to fend for themselves. He's quite worked up about the whole thing.
 * At Ernie's, everyone is intently listening to the piano. The crowd is just a bunch of morons, the kind who laugh at movies that aren't funny. You know.
 * Ernie even bows, which Holden finds disgusting.
 * Apparently, scotch and soda: no matter how old you are, Holden says, you can always drink at Ernie's.
 * Holden listens in on some conversation. On one side, a guy is giving the girl a play-by-play of the last football game he was in. She has to listen, says Holden, because she's not attractive.
 * On his other side is a very preppy, good-looking couple. To be exact, they are a "Joe Yale-looking-guy" and a "terrific looking girl with him."
 * He's feeling her up under the table while talking about this guy in his dorm that committed suicide, which … shows poor taste. To say the least. Not to mention, she doesn’t seem too into it.
 * As a better alternative to watching this display, Holden sends a message via the waiter asking Ernie to join him for a drink.
 * Just then a girl with a terrific body named Lillian Simmons greets Holden by name and comes over to this table.
 * She used to date Holden's brother D.B., and now she's with a naval officer.
 * Lillian asks about D.B. and introduces her date. Too bad about that terrific body, because nobody really likes this girl, even the guy who's dating her.
 * Holden resents having to say, "Glad you have met you" to the naval guy who he isn't remotely glad to have met.
 * Then he lies and says he has to leave to meet someone.

Ch.12 Notes by Jacob E. > > > > > >
 * While taking a cab to Ernie’s, Holden thinks about how his brother used to take him there
 *  He also seems to get along with the driver, Horwitz
 *  But Horwitz gets annoyed when Holden asks about the ducks
 *  At the nightclub, Holden notices all the phonies there
 *  He orders a drink and listens to everyone’s conversations
 *  Holden meets Lillian Simmons, D.B.’s ex-girlfriend
 *  He talks for a little but quickly leaves

Chapter 12 notes by Ellen Park Holden decides to go a nightclub called Ernie's that his brother used to take him to. On the way to the nightclub he tries to talk to the cab driver who doesn't feel like talking. Holden asks the cab drive what happens to the ducks when the pond freezes. Then cab driver gets angry with Holden and then Holden decides that he doesn't like the cab driver which is contrary to what he first thought when he got into the cab. He listens to Ernie play music which he thinks is really bad and just sits at a table listening to the conversations going around him. He then meets Lillian Simmons who DB his brother, used to date. He leaves the club trying to get away from her.

Chapter 12 notes by Kevin Kim
 * Holden takes a cab to a nightclub called Ernie's.
 * His cab driver is named Horwitz and Holden likes him alot.
 * Holden asks where the ducks go when the pond freezes.
 * Horwitz gets really mad.
 * At the nightclub, Holden listens to Ernie play the piano.
 * He is unamused.
 * He takes a table, drinks scotch and soda, and eavesdrops the conversation around him.
 * All of the conversation he finds are depressing and phony.
 * He meets a girl named Lillian Simmons who DB used to date.
 * He leaves the club to get away from her.

Chapter 12 by: Raivyn B Holden starts up a conversation with his cab driver, who's named Horwitz, then finally asks about the ducks in the Central park lagoon. Horwitz becomes angry at this stupid question. Horwitz shouts that fish have it worse than the ducks, but that they survive because "it's their nature."At Ernie's, the scene disgusts Holden. it's filled with the "phonies" from fancy colleges and prep schools whom he despises. In one conversation, Holden overhears, a guy he refers to as "Joe Yale" describe a fellow student's suicide attempt while trying to feel up his date under the table. A girl named Lillian Simmons, who used to date D.B., approaches Holden. They talk for a little bit, but Holden feels very awkward. He lies that he was just on his way out and darts for the door, saying to himself that people always ruin things for him.

Chapter 12 Notes: By Clare D.: Plot Summary:
 * Holden takes a cab to a Greenwich villagenightclub called Ernie's
 * He mentions how he used to go there with his older brother D.B.
 * Holden tries to ask his friendly cab driver, Horwitz, about the ducks in Central Park, but for some reason this makes him upset
 * Holden listens to Ernie play, but is unimpressed
 * He listens to all the conversations around him and finds them all to be phony, which is a reoccurring motif
 * He runs into Lillian Simmons, a girl D.B. used to date, and finds her to be obnoxious
 * He leaves the club to get away from her for the most part

Shihab P. =__**Summary**__=
 * **Holden decides to take a cab to Ernie's, a nightclub that his older brother used to take him to.**
 * **Once in the cab, he begins a conversation with the cab driver.**
 * **He asks about the ducks in the Central Park lagoon. To this, the cab driver gets angry because he finds it to be a stupid question.**
 * **Once at Ernie's, Holden is dissatisfied. He finds the place to be full of "phonies" from fancy schools.**
 * **He eavesdrops on the conversations all around him, and then a girl named Lillian Simmons approaches Holden. She was D.B.'s old girlfriend.**
 * **They talk for a little bit, but Holden feels too awkward in the situation.**
 * **He lies that he was just leaving, and then runs out the door.**
 * **As her leaves, he claims that people always ruin things for him.**

picture by Grace S., period 1

=RAKIB RAZZAK=
 * On the way to the bar in a taxi, Holden complains that he always gets "those vomity kind of cabs."
 * Once again Holden tries to strike up a conversation with the driver and find out where the ducks go in winter.
 * The taxi-driver scowls at his question and begins to talk about fish instead.
 * Holden asks the taxi-driver to have a drink with him but is told no
 * Holden enters Ernie’s and is surprised at how crowded it is at such a late hour.
 * He is shown to another table, at which he is able to hear the conversations of the couples on either side of him.
 * While Holden sits there smoking and drinking, a girl named Lillian Simmons comes up to him and asks about his brother D.B.,
 * D.B. and Lillian Simmons once dated
 * She introduces the sailor who is with her and asks Holden if he would like to join them.
 * Holden refuses the offer, saying he is about to leave.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden is immediately sad that he told this lie, for he now feels compelled to leave since he has said he was going.