Monday, March 22, 2010

Catcher Song: "Chasing Cars"

Song: I believe that the song, "Chasing Cars," by Snow Patrol would be placed on page 132, when Holden asks Sally to run away with him. This is an appropriate place for this song because it conveys Holden's feelings and thoughts during that moment with Sally Hayes. The line in the song, "If I just lay here would you lay with me and just forget the world?", reflects Holden's fear of loneliness when he wants turns his back upon the world. Also, when Holden explains to Sally his plan of living in cabins in the rural areas, it connects to the line from the song: "Let's waste time chasing cars around our heads," which illustrates the fantasies that Holden continuously imagines.

Paragraph: In the song, Chasing Cars, the usage of metaphors conveys Holden's desire for companionship that provides guidance for him. Throughout the song, Snow Patrol begs for a friend to accompany him on his journey away from the world. In the second verse of the song, the lyrics of "show me a garden that's bursting into life," illustrates Snow Patrol's wish to have a friend that would lead him toward the right path or a "garden bursting into life" . Holden's fear of being forsaken and lost is also similar to that particular line of the song. Despite the fact that "[he] didn't like him too much" (136), Holden decides to call up Carl Luce because "he was very enlightening sometimes," (136). Salinger conveys that Holden yearns for friendship so he can obtain instructions of where to go with his life. Also, in the second verse of the song,the singer expresses his "need [of a friend's] grace to remind [him] to find [his] own." These particular lyrics reveal that the singer requires guidance from a friend to "remind him to find his own grace" and his own path to the future. Through the use of metaphors in its song,Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol conveys Holden's dread of becoming alone and that friends usher him onto the right path.

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  1. KyleMarch 24, 2010 at 10:59 AM

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  2. ClarissaMarch 25, 2010 at 5:47 PM

    I think that song does fit really well at the point where he asks Sally to run away with him. As well as the metaphors, I think the soft tone of the song, and the three chords it uses really reflect the mood's Holden has - sometimes it's really soft and sad, and others its pulsing with energy - like Holden himself. It shows how he wants to just forget about the rest of the world, all the stuff that he hates, and find someone he likes to turn away with him. He's constantly searching for someone throughout the whole book, and the song reflects that.

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  3. kfeltMarch 25, 2010 at 8:37 PM

    While I listened to the song, i thought the exact same thing as Clarissa. I began thinking of the time when Holden just wants to start running away with Sally. I think a good line from the song that would back that up would be "I don't know where, confused about how as well," because during that scene with Sally, he seems a little confused and doesn't exactly know what he wants to do, he just thinks that he has it all planned out when really it's just his emotions getting to him because he his finally around someone he can talk to.

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