Re: Who wrote Holden Caulfield
akemi deherrera (de9926ak@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:16:39 -0700 (MST)
No I haven't heard the song but I will look for it now that you brought it
up. I'm interested what the song has to say.
akemi
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
> I've been meaning to mention this for absolutely ages ... a friend of mine
> is a big fan of the band Green Day and she lent me their first album.
> There's a song on it called `Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?' It's actually
> quite clever ... if I was a high school English teacher I would probably
> play this to my class and give them a copy of the lyrics to get them
> interested in the book - especially because the lyrics do a good job of
> giving you an idea of the character (the only lyrics I remember are the
> chorus: it was something like `There's a boy who wants to take a stand/But
> always ends up sitting') Anyone else out there heard it?
>
> P.S. - that isn't an original idea. Our English teacher got us interested
> in Wuthering Heights by doing the same thing with the Kate Bush song
> Wuthering Heights. We all came to the conclusion that it's a tad hard to
> fit a full length Victorian novel into a three minute pop song (: )
>
> Camille
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