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Literature and Language
What favor does Stradlater ask of Holden?
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September 30, 2009 7:02PM
In the book 'Catcher in the Rye' by J.D.Salinger, Stradlater asks Holden Caulfield to write his English homework which was a describtive essey. Stradlater was going to a date and his roommate Holden was realy good at english. Eventually, though he doesn't wants to, Holden agrees and writes about his dead younger brother Allie baseball mitt. Left-handed fielder's mitt. Allie had poems written all around it in green ink.
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