Blog Assignment 2

In chapter 16 Holden told a powerful vignette about when he was a kid and recalled when his teacher Mrs. Aigletinger would bring her classes to the museum, "We have this teacher, Mrs. Aigletinger, that took us there dang near every Saturday... No body gave too much of a dang about old Columbus, but you always had a lot of cotton candy and gum and stuff with you, and inside of that auditorium had such a nice smell. It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world. I loved that dang museum" (Salinger, 65). This vignette was helped the readers see a part of Holden that was about his childhood memories and remembrances of a part of his life that he wasn't so pessimistic by using imagery and elevated diction.