To acquaint the reader with the topic, main idea and the purpose of the writing.
I am confused on what you want us to do here?
<span>To stifle is to cut off, hold back, or smother. You may stifle your cough if you don't want to interrupt a lecture or you may stifle the competition if you fear losing. The verb stifle means “to choke, suffocate, drown.” ... At its most extreme, stifle means to kill by cutting off respiration.</span>
1)He thinks of his brother Allie a lot.
2)Holden thinks he is a lot of thinks but he mostly see himself as annoying, weak and depressed. the only people the really made him smile are lil kids.
3) People think Holden is smart, and annoying, for example the professor he went to after he left phoebe forgot his name claim that he was smart just troubled.
4) Holden keeps dropping out of school, he witnessed a suicide, and he lost his lil brother Allie.
5) he loves Allie, he loves writing/ English, he loves phoebe, he loves museums, and he loves children.
Answer:
5.the answer is hyperbole
