In ch. 2, Holden is critical of Old Spencer for getting “a big bang” out of buying an old, beat-up Navajo blanket and for repeatedly calling him “boy” because Holden hates the insulting term. The irony of this is unveiled in ch. 3-4 when Holden does two similar things. What are the two parallel things that Holden has/does in this chapter that mimic Old Spencer? Why do you think Salinger included such connections between Holden and Old Spencer? What point was Salinger trying to make?

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here? irony personification metaphor simile

Do not use this medicine with milk, cheese, or other dairy products. what end punctuation needs to be added to the above bolded word?

What is the speaker telling the grecian urn in these lines from “ode on a grecian urn”? he wishes the urn could talk so he could hear its stories. he knows the urn will still be around for others to see after he is dead. he fears that when he gets old, the urn will suffer because nobody else will take care of it. he wishes the people frozen on the urn could warm up and come to life.