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Summarizer CH. 5-8
Chapters 5-8 reveal what really goes on during the weekends at Pencey Prep and the True identity of Holden. In the beginning of chapter 5 Holden talks about the steak dinner they serves that is junk but the serve it so the parents of the children would be impressed. After that Holden, Ackley, and Mal decide to see a movie but when they get there Mal and Ackley have already seen the movie so they just eat food. When they get back from the eating Holden goes back to his room and decides to work on the composition that Stradlater asked to do for him. He writes it about his brother Allie who died of Leukemia and when he did die what Holden did, like break windows. Chapter 6: Stradlater comes back from his date and reads the composition that he told Holden to write for him. He is mad with it because he wrote it about his brother and Stradlater cannot really turn it in because he doesn’t have a brother named Allie. Then Stradlater says that this is why he is getting expelled, after Stradlater says this remark Holden takes the paper and rips it up into shreds. Minutes later there is tension going on between the two and Holden asks Stradlater about the date and Stradlater refuses to tell him what happened so Holden attacks Stradlater but Stradlater pins him to the floor but Holden still keeps talking and Stradlater knocks him in his face giving him a nose bleed. After this Holden leaves and goes into Ackley's room.
Chapter 7: When entering Ackley's room Holden trips over all the shoes on the ground. After this Holden and Ackley start talking for a while and asks if he can sleep on Ackley's roommates bed. That right Holden decides to stay in New York before he goes home so his parents wont be as mad when they see him. Holden goes back to his room and packs his things quickly and starts to walk out and when he is walking out he cries a little and on the way out he yells "Sleep tight, ya morons" which everyone heard. Chapter 8: Holden decides to walk to the train station instead of call a taxi because nobody would see him walking. When he gets on the train he sits next to Ernest Morrow's mother who he hates. Once he starts talking to him his lying side comes out and tells her that his name is Rudolph Schmidt and when she asks him why he is leaving Pencey Prep he tells her that he is getting a brain tumor removed.