CITR+Ch+25

Chapter 25 notes by Ellen Park Holden goes to Grand Central Station after leaving Mr. Antolini's house and spends the night sleeping on the bench. He wakes up the next day and thinks about what happened with Mr. Antolini and wonders if he will tell his wife about what happened, but this that he won't. He starts flipping through some magazines and thinks once again about his death. He's hungry and so he decides to head to 5th avenue and looks for the nuns he saw the other day. He becomes overwhelmed see all the children and so every time he crosses the street he tells Allie "Don't let me disappear". Then Holden wants to return Phoebe's money so he goes to her school to leave a note to meet him at the museum. He sees insults written on the wall and starts feeling depressed. He goes to the museum and helps two children get to the mummy exhibit, but they run off scared. He sees more insults written on the wall and thinks that someone will write them on his grave. Phoebe meets Holden carrying bags and asks Holden if she can go with him, but he says no. They go to the zoo, but Phoebe is still mad at him. Once they go on the carousal, she can no longer stay mad and Holden says that he can almost cry because he is so happy looking at Phoebe.

After leaving Mr. Antolini’s, Holden goes to Grand Central Station and spends the night sleeping on a bench in the waiting room. The next day, he walks up and down Fifth Avenue, watching the children and feeling more and more nervous and overwhelmed. Every time he crosses a street, he feels like he will disappear, so each time he reaches a curb, he calls to Allie, pleading with his dead brother to let him make it to the other side. He decides to leave New York, hitchhike west, and never go home or to school again. He imagines living as a hermit, never talking to anybody, and marrying a deaf-mute girl.He goes to Phoebe’s school and writes her a note telling her to meet him at the Museum of Art so he can return the money she lent him. As he wanders around his old school, he becomes even more depressed when he finds the words “fuck you” scrawled on the walls.While waiting at the museum, Holden shows two young kids where the mummies are. He leads them down the hallway to the tomb exhibit, but they get scared and run off, leaving Holden alone in the dark, cramped passage. Holden likes it at first, but then sees another “fuck you” written on the wall. Disgusted, he speculates that when he dies, somebody will probably write the words “fuck you” on his tombstone. He leaves the exhibit to wait for Phoebe. On the way to the bathroom, he passes out, but he downplays the incident. Phoebe arrives at the museum with a suitcase and begs Holden to take her with him. He feels dizzy and worries that he will pass out again. He tells her that she cannot possibly go with him and feels even closer to fainting. She gets angry, refuses to look at him, and gruffly returns his hunting hat. Holden tells her he won’t go away and asks her to go back to school. She angrily refuses, and he offers to take her to the zoo.They walk to the zoo, Holden on one side of the street, Phoebe following angrily on the other. After looking at some animals, they walk to the park, now on the same side of the street, although still not quite together. They come to the carousel, and Holden convinces Phoebe to ride it. He sits on a park bench, watching her go around and around. They have reconciled, he is wearing his red hunting hat, and suddenly he feels so happy he thinks he might cry. Olivia Kriwasch-period 8
 * Chapter 25 by Raivyn Brown**
 * Sujin Bang (Period 8)**
 * **Holden goes to Grand Central Station to get his bags and sleep there so he doesn't waste Pheobe's money**
 * **When he wakes up he starts thinking about Mr. Antolini and whether he will tell his wife what happened, but he believes Mr. Antolini won't tell her**
 * **Holden picks up a magazine someone left and reads an article about hormones**
 * **He also reads about how to diagnose yourself if you have cancer, and Holden thinks he has cancer and is going to die**
 * **Holden gets hungry, so he starts walking down 5th Ave and looks for the nuns he talked to before**
 * **He also remembers when he and Phoebe shopped around Christmas time last year**
 * **Every time Holden walks across the crosswalk, he talks to Allie saying "Don't let me disappear."**
 * **Then he sits at a bench and thinks he should give Phoebe's money back and go to the West, so he goes to Phoebe's school**
 * **Holden thinks to himself, when he goes to the West he'll pretend to be deaf-mute, build a house near the woods, and marry a deaf-mute girl**
 * **When Holden arrives at Phoebe's school he writes a letter to Phoebe telling her where to meet him before he leaves so he can give her her money back**
 * **Holden has nausea, so he sits on the stairs and he sees a wall where someone wrote "f*** you," and he has the urge to kill that person
 * Holden erases the word off the wall but he is worried someone will see him erasing it and think that he was the one who wrote it
 * Holden goes into the principal's office and sees a receptionist and gives her the note to give Phoebe and chats with her for a bit and leaves
 * Holden goes to the bathroom and while he leaves, he faints, but weirdly feels better after fainting
 * When Phoebe comes to the museum, with a suitcase and says she is leaving with him
 * Holden tries to take Phoebe back to her school, but she refuses to go back and tells him to shut up
 * Holden goes to the zoo, Phoebe and Holden go the carousel, and Holden makes Phoebe ride although she thinks she's too big
 * After the ride, Phoebe wants Holden to ride next but Holden just wants to watch her ride.
 * Phoebe puts the red hunting hat on Holden's head, kisses it, and tells him to stay until she's done
 * Holden watches her while it is raining, and nearly cries watching Phoebe because it makes him happy**
 * ** Holden leaves Mr. Antolini’s and goes to Grand Central Station **
 * ** He sleeps on a bench in the waiting room **
 * ** He watches children when he walks down the streets **
 * ** He begins to feel more anxious and nervous **
 * ** He talks to Allie as he gets to the curbs, asking for help to get to the other side **
 * ** He wants to leave New York and go west, never returning **
 * ** He sees himself being a hermit, having no contact with anyone or anything **
 * ** He goes to Phoebe’s school to write her a note telling her to meet him at the museum so he can give her back her money **
 * ** He becomes more depressed when he sees insults written on the walls **
 * ** Holden goes to the museum and helps two children get to the mummy exhibit, but they get scared and run away **
 * ** He sees more insults written on the walls, and thinks when he dies someone will write them on his tombstone **
 * ** As he leaves the exhibit he faints, but brushes it off **
 * ** Phoebe gets there with bags and asks if Holden will take her with him. He says no **
 * ** She gets mad and doesn’t want to go back to school **
 * ** They go to the zoo but Phoebe is still mad at him **
 * ** He gets her to ride the carousel, she is no longer mad **
 * ** Holden is so happy he says he could cry **

Kristine Pham - per. 1 After leaving Mr. Antolini's place, he goes to Grand Central Station because his bags were there. He debated on whether he should go back or not since Mr. Antolini was nice to him. Holden sleeps on a bench in the waiting room, but soon can't because more people were coming in. He still felt a strong headache and felt sick. When Holden left, walking down the streets, he can't stop thinking that if he crosses the street, he won't make it across. So what he does is pray to his brother, Allie, for help, so he can cross the street. Then he sits on a bench, imagining his life if he left New York and went to the west. This idea made him really excited, he wanted to tell Phoebe beforehand though. Holden ran to a stationary store and then ran to Phoebe's school. He wrote a note to her and went into her school, asking one of the ladies in the principal's office to give the piece of paper to her. He saw profanity written on the walls which made him upset, thinking about how it could ruin children's innocence. This note told Phoebe to meet him during lunch at the museum near her school. He went there earlier to kill some time as he waited for her to arrive. He met two little kids and helped them find the mummy exhibit. The children got scared and left, he stayed there and felt peaceful. When leaving the exhibit, he faints but feels better afterwards. He starts being scared thinking that Phoebe wouldn't come or she never got the paper. Eventually, she appears with a big suitcase, saying that she wants to run away with him. He rejects this idea and tells her to go back to school. She starts to cry and refuses to go back to the school. They end up visiting the zoo. Although, Phoebe's anger slowly digresses throughout the visit. They leave and see a carousel. He buys her a ticket; by this point she's no longer mad. She rides the carousel. After it's over, she gives Holden's hat back to him and also wants him to keep her "Christmas dough". It starts to rain, "in buckets" as he describes. Holden is the happiest he has been in this entire book.

Holden sleeps on a bench at Grand Central Station. He awakes and decides to move out west by himself, but he wants to say goodbye to his sister first. He delivers a letter to Phoebe at school, asking her to meet him, so he can say good bye and give her some Christmas money. Holden is disturbed by the profane graffiti at Phoebe's school and rubs it out with his hand. He encounters more of the same graffiti at the school and at The Museum of Natural History and despairs. Phoebe shows up late, with a suitcase, demanding to go with him. He refuses to let her and they argue. He decides not to go. Holden walks to the zoo, with an angry Phoebe on the other side of the street. They walk to the park with Phoebe less angry. Phoebe rides the carousel, which makes Holden happy that he is practically crying as it is pouring rain in NYC.
 * Ch 25 Notes **
 * (Isabella L, p1) **

After leaving Mr. Antolini’s house, Holden goes to Grand Central Station and ends up sleeping on a bench in the waiting room. The next day, he goes up and down 5th Avenue, watching all the children and feeling overwhelmed. Every time he crosses a street, Holden thinks that he will disappear, so he calls to Allie, and pleads with him to let him cross to the other side. He decides to leave NYC and hitchhike out west, and imagines himself living as a hermit and marrying a deaf-mute girl. He goes to Phoebe’s school and leaves her a note telling her to go to the Museum of Art so he can return her money to him. He wanders around the school, and gets more depressed when he finds “fuck you” written almost everywhere. While waiting at the museum, he leads two kids to the mummy exhibit, but they get scared and run away. Holden is left alone in the dark passage, and is enjoying it until he finds “fuck you” written on the walls. He speculates that when he dies, someone will write “fuck you” on his tombstone. As he goes to the bathroom, he passes out, but downplays the incident. Phoebe arrives with a suitcase, begging Holden to take her with him out west. He begins to feel dizzy when he tells her that she couldn’t go with him, which results in her getting angry and her throwing the hunting hat at him. They then go to the zoo, where they look at some animals, and then go on the carousel, where Holden convinces Phoebe to ride it. Holden sits on a park bench watching her go round and round, with such emotions rushing through him that he feels so happy that he might just cry.
 * Chapter 25 Notes- Ryan McDonnell **