Chapter 1

Quote 1:"I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You couldn't see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on Pency side[...]" (p.4) (ch.1)  -Content/Theme

Quote 2: "What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of good-by." (p.6-7) (ch.1)

-Content

In the first quote I think that Holden is giving us an idea of how the story is going to play out. He slightly hints to us that while everyone is at the game, he is sitting alone. You have to remember that this game is a huge deal, it is one of the biggest games Pency plays. Holden would rather keep to himself and watch from a distance. While everyone is having the time of there life, he would rather be isolated from everyone else instead of connecting with other students. This hint that the writer gives us is cluing us in for an on going theme that Holden would rather sit back and watch things happen instead of participating in them. 

In the second quote even though Holden has a rough and tough way about him in the way he talks and acts. He still wanted to feel closure leaving Pency. Holden talks about his crappy life in the first chapter, and maybe he has never felt a since of closer with anything. I think that is why he said bye to his history teacher because he felt like that teacher really cared about him, and it gave him closer to say goodbye. In the first chapter we are just starting to find out the characters and what role they play. We know a little about Holden's family, and that he had two brothers and one died, a sister, and that he comes from a wealthy family.