Summer Reading Assignments 10.pdf

Honors English 10 – Summer Reading Assignments
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway are
the two books selected for your summer reading and writing assignments. Please purchase these
two novels so that you can write in the books as you identify main characters, events, and
important quotations. The directions for reading and responding to each book are below. All
work should be word-processed and saved for later use. Printed copies of the assignments are
due the first day of class. Also, on the first day of class a test on Catcher will be given. The test
on Old Man in the Sea will be given the next class.
The Catcher in the Rye
This novel is a "framed" story in which the narrator tells what has happened to him in the
beginning of the novel, describes the events that have lead to his hospitalization during the novel,
and in the end, takes the reader back to the present.
Part I: For each fifth of the book (chapters 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, and 21-26) list the major
characters, describe their physical appearance and age, their personality, and their relationship to
the main character, Holden Caulfield. In explaining the relationship include each character's
thoughts and feelings toward Holden and Holden’s thoughts and feelings toward him or her.
Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel (novella) that tells the story of an old
fisherman, Santiago, and his young friend, Manolin. The themes and lessons of the story are
developed through an examination of the relationship between Santiago and Manolin, and
Santiago and the marlin.
As you read, make a list of the characteristics of each character: personality, appearance,
strengths and weaknesses. In addition to Santiago and Manolin, describe these elements for the
Marlin and the sea.
Part II: QUOTATION ANALYSIS: USE THE ATTACHED FORM
For each quotation below write:
1.) Who said it 2.) The context: to whom, when, and where, 3.) The topic or value illustrated,
and 4) The theme suggested by the quotation.
Catcher Quotations:
1. "It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you
felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road."
2. "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to
buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to
the opera. It's terrible."
3. "Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war,
I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it. I swear to God I will."
4. "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean except me. And I'm
standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they
start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I
have to come out from somewhere and catch them."
5. "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Old Man and the Sea Quotations
1. "He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it
and it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride."
2. "But he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows
Maybe today. Every day is new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. The
when luck comes you are ready."

3. "I wish I could show him what sort of a man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand.
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with
everything he has, against only my will and my intelligence."
4. "But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
5. "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there
is."
Please purchase these editions of the books.