Closure

Excerpted from Catcher in the Rye Activity Pack from Prestwick House

In chapter 1, Holden has been expelled from the prep school, and he is trying to bring closure to his experience there. Holden tells the reader,

“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-bye. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad goodbye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. (pg. 4)

Write about a time that you had to leave a place or bring closure to an experience. Include:

• When
• Where
• Who was involved – their relation to you
• Why you had to leave or end the experience
• What you did to say good-bye
  First,
  Second,
  Third,
• How things ended

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