Bell Ringer 10/1

Please get out Journal Entry #4 so that I can check it.

English III

EQ: How do the images, symbols, motifs, and title of The Catcher in the Rye aid in the development of several themes within the novel?

Agenda Bell Ringer: Journal Entry #4 On-Time Check

Agenda/EQ

Images, Symbols, and Motifs Notes

Answering Part B

Analyzing Images, Symbols, and Motifs

Connecting to Themes (Theme Inventory)

Images, Symbols, Motifs

Images: Word or phrase that creates pictures in the reader’s mind or suggests special impressions. Images can be visual or sensual – smell, taste, touch, color, sound, etc.

Symbols: An image, person, place, or thing which also represents something larger or more abstract, in the way that a flag symbolizes a country.

Motifs: A recurring pattern of a feature – object, image, symbol – in a literary work

Images, Symbols, Motifs

Images Ackley’s teeth and nails

Not necessarily symbolic b/c it doesn’t represent something larger than Ackley

Symbols The carrousel that Phoebe rides

Represents the cyclical nature of things

Motifs Holden’s continued interest in the ducks in the park recurs

several times throughout the novel

This Motif could also be symbolic: What can nature show us of change and adaptation, or, is nature, like the carrousel, also cyclical?

Images, Symbols, Motifs: Part B

Images, symbols, and motifs are used by writers: To focus attention on what the writer wants a reader to

notice

To create interior patterns within the literary work

To lend continuity

To create emphasis

To create a structural unity

To add texture to the prose

Images, Symbols, Motifs

Get out your Theme Inventory

Compare both your Theme Inventory and the activity we just completed Which images, symbols, or motifs could support which

themes?

In the bottom margin of Handout 10, list 2 themes from the Theme Inventory.

Underneath each theme, list theme images, symbols, or motifs that could support that theme.