After dinner Holden and one of his friends Mal Brossard go into town to see a movie, Ackley comes along too. The movie that's playing is one Mal and Ackley have both seen, so they eat some burgers instead. They go back to Pencey and Ackley stays in Holden's room for a while, talking about this chick he apparently had sex with. After a lot of effort, Holden gets Ackley out of there and he starts Stradlater's composition paper. He writes about his brother Allie's old baseball mitt, which he wrote poems on with green ink. Allie was two years younger than Holden, but died of leukemia a while back. Holden then talks about Allie and says he was really smart. He also says that the night Allie died, he slept in the garage and broke all the windows (and his hand) by punching them.Response-The way Holden talks about Allie, compared to others, he really misses him and adores him. To Holden, Allie is no phony.
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