Slang

1. Adjectives:

 Fun - kicks
 Really fast - like crazy
 Crazy, insane - nuts
 Drunk - Souse

2.
 Fun- cool
Really fast - fast-track
Crazy- wacked
Drunk - boozed up

3.
Slang are informal or nosnstandard words or phrases. These show attitudes and values of  a group or a culture. They can exist in any culture and give it a special sense in it. They show how a culture is and what their values are and in order to be slang they must be accepted by the whole culture.

The Catcher in the Rye context

1. What music was popular during this period?

Rock and Roll dominated, the musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world.

1940s style  Crooners arrived with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing onItalian Canto Bella traditions.

Over all pop music, swing, big band, jazz, latin and country music dominated and defined the decade's music.

2. What types of movies were popular? (include 1 image)

The decade of 1940s is noted as the best decade in film history.
Frank Capra´s masterpiece It's a Wonderful Life and Orson Welles's masterpiece Citizen Kane were released. The film noir genre was at its height. Alfred Hitchcock made his American debut with the film Rebecca, and made many classics throughout the 40s. The most successful film of the decade was Samuel Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives.

3. What were women wearing during this time? (include 1 image)Women's clothes of the 1940s were  modeled after the utility clothes produced during war rationing. Squared shoulders, narrow hips, and skirts that ended just below the knee were the height of fashion. Tailored suits were also popular.

 

4. Find an image of popular advertisement and include in your post.

 

5. What was life like for a teenager at this time?
It wasn't until the late 1940s that kids were called "teenagers."  It was also the big band era and the likes of Benny Goodman would get the teenagers up and jitter bugging. Teenagers also learned to ballroom dance. Those teenagers that were lucky enough to have a car had a "jalopy" which was a beat-up old car that they learned how to work on and brought back to life. To this day in antique car shows you can still see some of these magnificent jalopies.