Holden comes to see his teacher p a r t i “the catcher in the rye” by the american author j. d. salinger may be the world’s most famous book about a teenager. the main character’s name is hold en caulfield and he is going through the period of teen age rebellion. in the passage you are going to read holden has just been expelled from a good school for poor academic performance and he has come to mr spencer’s home to say goodbye to his old teacher. “hello, sir,” i said. “i got your note. thanks a lot.” he’d written me this note asking me to stop by and say goodbye. “you didn’t have to do all that. i wanted to come over to say goodbye anyway.” “have a seat there, boy,” old spencer said. “so you’re leaving us, eh? ” “yes, sir. i guess i am.” “have you told your parents yet? ” “no, sir, i haven’t, because i’ll probably see them wednesday night when i get home.” “and how do you think they’ll take the news? ” “ they’ll be pretty irritated about it,” i said. “they really will. this is about the fourth school i’ve gone to.” i shook my head. i shake my head quite a lot. “boy! ” i said. i also say “boy! ” quite a lot. partly be' cause i have a lousy vocabulary and partly because i act quite young for my age sometimes. i was sixteen then, and i’m seventeen now, and sometimes i act like i’m about thirteen. it’s really ironical, because i’m six foot two and a half and i have grey hair. i really do. the one side of my head — the right side — is full of millions of grey hairs. i’ve had them ever since i was a kid. and yet i still act sometimes like i was only about twelve. everybody says that, especially my father. it’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. i get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. sometimes i act a lot older than i am — i really do — but people never notice it. people never notice anything. “what’s the matter with you, boy? ” old spencer said. “how many subjects did you carry this term? ” “five, sir.” “i flunked you in history because you knew abso' lutely nothing.” “i know that, sir. boy, i know it. you couldn’t help it.” “i doubt very much if you opened your textbook even once the whole term. did you? tell the truth, boy.” “well, i sort of looked through it a couple of times,” i told him, i didn’t want to hurt his feelings. he was mad about history нужен пересказ, оформленный нормально по этой форме ive just read a passage from the book и тд!
Besides the fact that the bridge was a checkpoint, he also served as an additional line of defense for the city. He did not miss the enemy vessels upstream and did not allow the attacking troops to enter the city by land. He played a dramatic role in the brutal events of the early eleventh century, when London changed hands a few times when the power in the city passed from the Saxons to the Vikings and Vice versa. The most famous legend describes the attempt of the Saxon king aethelred Hesitant to retake London from the Whip in 1014. He enlisted the support of the Norwegian king Olaf, whose ships, reinforced awning to protect the team, swam to the bridge, put the iron cats to him, and when he sailed from him, almost destroyed him. This was the inspiration for the poem written by Olaf Igasom. The first line starts like this:
Destroyed London bridge,Shine, the glory as of the gold.Shields rattle, Horns blow, Hildur spewing roar! Arrows fly,Chain mail rings, Blessed Olaf One!
The poem is known through the children's poem "London bridge is falling down", which appeared in the seventeenth century. Olaf became a popular patron Saint in England, previously in London there were three Church named after this Saint, one of them was at the southern end of London bridge, on the spot where later, in 1931, built the office block known as St Olaf house. In 1016 Knut returned to regain his throne. As he could not take the bridge, he dug a channel around the southern end of the bridge and his ships were able to raise upstream, the city was surrounded. After the Norman invasion of 1066, William the Norman had to take the London, in order to provide themselves with power. When he approached it from the South, he found that the town is well protected in this part, he had to move his army up the river where he was able to cross the Thames and to move to London from the West.