About The Speaker:
Lidia Yuknavitch was on the road of being an Olympic swimmer something kids only dream about. She has wrote many books such as The Small Backs of Children and a memoir called The Chronology of Water which was extremely intense and honest. |
Yuknavitch's Argument:
Yuknavitch talks about her earlier years and what she had to overcome to get to where she is now she talks about being different, and having to deal with the loss of her child. She had trouble with accepting herself and who she is. She talked about how she always stood out. She says that she can almost point out all the misfits. She is different from what society wants to make her, and she has finally been able to accept herself. |
Connection:
In The Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield struggles to find who he is as a person. He is constantly struggling to find his place in the world. Throughout the book we are in the mind of Holden, We see everything that he thinks and how he feels towards people. Holden is a misfit just like Lidia Yuknavitch is. They both had to overcome a lot of things. They both lost someone in there life. They both had to grief the loss. Holden deals with the grief by smoking and drinking. He acts like he doesn't have a care in the world, but being able to "be in his mind" really helps us see that Holden does care, he puts a mask on to cover how he really feels. Both Holden and Lidia have been through a lot in there life, and they both are misfits. Holden isn't like people his age, his mind is in many ways wiser. He doesn't see eye to eye with kids his age. He is a misfit. He knows that he doesn't fit in to the world he has grown up in and hes constantly trying to figure out how to deal with being so different. |
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