Chapter 21 - Escape Extract

Another extract from chapter 21 that I think is showing the theme of escape is on page 178.

It starts with 'Nobody's gonna kill me.' and goes to 'I was all out'.

Here Holden is telling Phoebe about how he is going to get away from everything. It is a physical way to escape; he is actually going to run away. Within this extract Holden goes into some good detail about what he is going to do once he has run away. I think that this indicates that this is not the first time that Holden has thought about it, he has thought about it many of times and considered what is the best route to take and what he is actually going to do it is not like when he returned home from Pencey Prep and he did not actually know where he was going to head to but he ended up heading home, this time he knows where he wants to go, what he wants to do and how he is going to be able to survive. I think that this shows it is a different type of escape to the escapes we have seen before because all of the ones before have not been planned out they all had a little hint about where they were going to go to but did not have a set plan like this escape does. The only thing that throws Holden off all of his plans is the fact that Phoebe does not want to go, which probably means she does not approve of Holden's idea and maybe because of this Holden will not go because I have the impression that Holden just wants to impress Phoebe, be nice to Phoebe and just do what a big brother should do really and if Phoebe does not want to go to wherever Holden wants to go to then maybe he should realise that it is not actually that good of an idea.