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I. Introduction a. People always act like someone else at times, but when they act like this all the time they are a phony. b. Throughout the novel __The Catcher In The Rye__, Holden calls everyone a phony, even though he is one himself. i. When Holden is alone or with someone else and doesn't have anything to talk about, he will bring up someone doing something that makes them a phony. ii. Holden acts like someone he is not, because he is not true to himself, which makes him a phony. iii. When Holden is with someone who he thinks is phony, he thinks only about the other persons problems, and completely ignoring the fact that he himself is a phony.

II. When Holden is alone or with someone else and doesn't have anything to talk about, he will bring up things that make people phonies. a. When Holden was sitting alone in his dorm room he would bring up Stradlater and how he is such a phony because he gets girls with his looks and that is all he really cares about. i. Because all he cares about is his looks he doesn't use his brains to get any where in life. Being a phony with girls is what Stradlater is good at. That's basically all he is good at. b. When he was with Mrs Maro, he was telling her that her son is an angel when he is at school, even though that is not true at all. i. He thinks that telling the mother what she wants to her is a good idea because no one wants to know that their child is a bully. c. When Holden was in the cab going to the bar he was talking to the driver about all these people being phony. He was also thinking to himself that this cab driver is a phony because when Holden asked him a question about the ducks and the guy starts to be a jerk to him about it. i. When Holden asked the driver if he knew about the ducks the driver started to get an attitude with him. Holden was thinking in his mind about how the bus driver was freaking out about it. And decided to cll him a phony because he was acting nice to him at first and now was being a jerk.

III.Holden acts like someone he is not, because he is not true to himself. He is insecure with himself. a. He is always just talking about other people behind there back, when really he is the one that is a phony or a fake. i. When he is talking to the lady in the train he is bagging on her son in his mind, at the same time he is being fake and just trying to act older then he really is. b. He thinks that because she is bagging on him that he can be good and say that he is the best kid in the world, even though he is nothing of the sort. i. When the kid was in his dorm and was going threw his stuff and thought he was a weird creep. c. He only talks about him in a bad way when people think is can be weird and creepy at times. i. Holden can never see that he himself is what he dose not like in other people.

IV. When Holden is with someone who he thinks is phony, he thinks only about the other person's problems and never about his own problems. a. "It was partly a phony kind of friendly, but at least he always said hello to Ackley and all." (Salinger, 26) i. Holden is talking about Stradlater saying that him being friendly to Ackley is fake, because he really doesn't like him, and is just saying hello just to be nice. All he is doing is leading Ackley on thinking that he has a friend when he when he really doesn't. b. i. When he was at the school he kept thinking of the people in the office was doing things to mess with him. c. He thinks they never gave his sister the note or they tried to read the note. i.Reason why supporting detail emphasizes and reaffirms thesis

V.Conclusion a.Restate thesis i.Avenue one (Main reason 1) 1.Why this reason reaffirms thesis ii.Avenue two (Main reason 2) 1.Why is reason reaffirms thesis iii.Avenue three (Main reason 3) 1.Why this reason reaffirms thesis iv. Concluding statement