Empathy

I feel mostly empathy with Holden. I know what its like to be smart but still failing classes and people not understanding why. I know what its like to be alienated from people. I have never been kicked out of a school but i know what its like to move from  school to school to school. So yeah, I would say that there are a lot of comparisons between Holden and I and that creates empathy on my part.

Pre-reading question #6

6) Why do teenagers feel the need to rebel against the rules or against other people (parents, teachers)?

I think that it is just a natural thing. The first reason is that we kind of come out of the shelter of our parents protecting. We find out about these new "bad" things and we get really excited. We get soaked in new ideas from our friends, older influences, and new media we are allowed to access. Then after we are saturated with these new ideas the teens ideals and the parents might not line up as perfectly as when we were eight. So we rebel and then comes the arguing and fighting etc.
The second part of it is teenagers finally feel like they can control their own life, but they still live in their parents house and under the parents rules so that creates a constant power struggle and the sheer annoyance that their parents still tell them what to do even though we know what is "best" simply cause teenagers to rebel more.

Green :)

I like the color green the most :) It really describes me because I love seeing the color. I love nature and thats when it occurs the most. Its just a deep color. Green is pure beauty in my opinion.