chapter 1

Holdin starts the book talking about db his brother. His brother lives in hollywood for writing stories. Holdin attends pencey prep and is being kicked out of the school due to his grades. he's failing all of his classes except english. Holdin goes to the football game and stands at the top of the hill watching and trying to say goodbye but he just rolls his past memories at pencey over in his head which suddenly makes him sad. He ends the chapter by going to spencers, his teacher,house.
This book starts out boring cause all he's doing is talking about himself.