Week 2 青少年小說

Video SparkNotes: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye summary

alienation

[eyl-yuh-ney-shuh n, ey-lee-uh-] 

noun

1.

the act of alienating, or of causing someone to become indifferent orhostile:

The advocacy group fights against prejudice and social alienation ofimmigrants.

2.

the state of being alienated, withdrawn, or isolated from the objectiveworld, as through indifference or disaffection:

the group's alienation from mainstream society.

3.

the act of turning away, transferring, or diverting:

the alienation of land and resources from African peoples.

4.

Law. a transfer of the title to property by one person to another;conveyance.

5.

Statistics. the lack of correlation in the variation of two measurablevariates over a population.

This place must be pretty alien to me.
這地方我一定沒來過（很陌生）

"Comin' Thro' the Rye"  is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–96). It is well known as a traditional children's song, with the words put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel Common' Frae The Town. This is a variant of the tune to which Auld Lang Syne is usually sung—the melodic shape is almost identical, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose(Robert Burns)
0, my luve is like a red, red rose,
that's newly sprung in June.
0, my love is like a melodie,
that's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair thou art, my bonnie lass,
so deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
and the rocks melt wi' the sun!
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
while the sands of life shall run.
And fare the weel, my only luve!
And fare the well awhile!
And I will come again, my love.
Tho it were ten thousand mile!

Week 1 青少年小說

Coming of age  is a young person's transition from childhood to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the nature of the transition.It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual, as practiced by many societies. In the past, and in some societies today, such a change is associated with the age of sexual maturity (early adolescence)

Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction to enable fertilization. It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to thegonads: the ovaries in a girl, the testes in a boy.

 Stop swearing on the Lord's Name
"Stop swearing"  不要隨便講 Oh my God!

Georgia Rule:

Oh, my God. You're hard.

You had ample warning
about the Lord's name.

Coming to the Rye

Metaphorically Speaking 打個比方

Conan Doyle   柯南
Sherlock Holmes 福爾摩斯
Are you Sherlock? 你以為你是偵探嗎

An antihero or antiheroine is a main character in a story who, unlike a traditional hero, lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality.

Holden Caulfield is an antihero in  Catcher in the Rye.