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Catcher In The Rye Love And Affection
1,372 wordsJerome David Salinger was a very famous American author who wrote several books. One of his most successful books was The Catcher in the Rye. Other works by Salinger include the short story collection Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High The Beam, Carpenter and Seymour. In the book The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield, became a model of the rebellious and confused adolescent who detected the phoniness of the adult world. (Microsoft Encyclopedia 98). This showed that he had a serious...
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Fact That Holden Catcher In The Rye
1,101 wordsSiblings are never meant to get along. They yell and bicker over everything and are never able to have a friendly relationship. Very rarely do I see a pleasant relationship between a brother and a sister, who actually are able to communicate without killing each other. When I see siblings that are nice to each other, I admire them because it takes a lot to be nice to their siblings, especially if there is a seven year difference between them, like Holden and Phoebe. In J. D. Salinger's novel, Th...
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Catcher In The Rye Main Character
1,155 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye By Christine Cameron Hypothesis: How does the writer create a believable main character in Holden? The Catcher in the Rye by J. D Salinger was first published in America and Britain in 1951 but the British version had some minor changes. For example, certain swear words and slang words were removed. It was also banned from schools. This made the book more appealing to me because I wanted to see what all the controversy was about. On reading the book, I found it interesting...
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Fall From Innocence In The Catcher Rye
895 wordsIn J. D. Salinger's, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through a fall from his innocence throughout his journey to his safe haven, home. One example of when Holden fell from his own innocence is when he is in the room with Phoebe and he can't name anything he likes. Holden reacts to this question by saying, "Boy, she was depressing me" (Salinger 169). The only three things he can name that he liked were Allie, James Castle, and sitting there chewing the fat with Phoebe. The reason this i...
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Back To School Catcher In The Rye
833 wordsIn The Catcher in the Rye, main character Holden Caulfield displays three specific characteristics. In this paper I will be converse about how Holden very compassionate, needy and lonely. Holden shows many times in this book how he is needy, most of the time he tries to hide this trait but with some people Holden bares it all. Holden shows compassion's while he watches his younger sister Phoebe go around on the Carousel, and he begins to cry. Lastly he is lonely, he never really seems to make ma...
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Brother Allie Inferiority Complex
1,558 wordsWho is Holden really? ? ? A lousy, uninteresting phony? Or is he the most intelligent and cleverest person you ever met? Well This question isnt really easy to answer. Personally I think that he is a very intellectual human who unfortunately doesnt know how to use his intellect and who is suffering from major mental problems. On the one side, he is this guy who tries to be cool and accepted by other people. However, on the other hand, he is this little lonely child who is seeking for someone who...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caufield
1,730 wordsHolden Caufield the 16 year old protagonist and main character of The Catcher in the Rye narrates the story and explains all the events throughout three influential days of his life. A prep school student who has just been kicked out of his second school, Holden struggles to find the right path into adulthood. He does not know what road to follow and he uses others as the scapegoat for his puzzlement in life. Harold Bloom explains, His central dilemma is that he wants to retain a child's innocen...
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Children From Growing Grab For The Gold Ring
997 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change throughout the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change all of this. During the short period of Holden's life revealed in this book, Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy. Shortly after, Holden leaves Peace Prep and checks in to...
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Kings In The Back Holden Mind
492 wordsThere is a time in a person s existence when they loose their innocence. No longer are they sheltered from the harsh outside world, they are a part of it. They are now corrupt. A process that engulfs all and is only stopped by death. These are the thoughts of Holden Cauffield right before he has a mental breakdown. Holden adores innocence and how only the young are subject to it. In Holden s mind there are three people in particular Holden knows who are the epitome of innocence. These people are...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,412 wordsCatcher in the Rye Essay I keep picturing all these kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's big but me. And Im standing on the edge of some crazy cliff -What do I have to do, I have to catch them. I mean their running, and they dont look where their going, so I must come out of somewhere and catch them. (Salinger, 173) J. D. Salinger, in his timeless classic, The Catcher in the Rye, a novel depicting the complications of life as an adolesce...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caufield
741 wordsALIENATION In the book, Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caufield, the main character is a negatively charged person, doesnt want himself or others around him to grow up, and suffers from depression because of his brothers death. This is obviously Holden's way of alienating the entire world and delaying the consequences of facing reality. Alienation is a big theme in Catcher In The Rye, and something that Holden depends on most often. Holden Caufield is a negatively charged character...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden
696 wordsCatcher In The Rye-Analysis Of The Scene Catcher In The Rye-Analysis Of The Scene With Mr. Spencer Ch 2 The Catcher In The Rye In chapter two, Holden reveals some of his most important traits through his interaction with Mr. Spencer. In this scene, it is the first time you see Holden communicating with someone, but even in the beginning, he is apathetic the lesson Mr. Spencer is trying to teach him. However, although he looks at someone like Mr. Spencer negatively, he justifies his or her imperf...
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Catcher In The Rye D B
710 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, starts off with the main character, Holden Caulfield being expelled from school once again. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who has been expelled on numerous occasions from other schools. This time he is being expelled from Pency Prep. Before Holden goes home to his parents, he plans to spend a few days in New York. His parents do not know of the expulsion, so he spends the weekend in a hotel. Holden is a pretty strange kid who can always find a way to get himself into t...
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Catcher In The Rye Brother Allie
385 wordsCatcher in the Rye In Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger, Holden Caulfield suffers from an excess of sensibility and that means an excess of emotion that prevents him from functioning in the world properly. Holden puts his standards too high. So when Holden completes one of his everyday tasks, he gets very disappointed. Holden feels there is nothing to achieve in life. First of all, Holden hates the fact that his younger brother Allie had died of leukemia. Holden loved Allie so much. Ho...
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Valley Forge Military Academy Holden Caulfield
1,777 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after its first publication. John Lennon's assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to act as he did it could have been any book that he...
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Catcher In The Rye Place In Society
1,569 wordsA novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J. D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and perils, which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and squalor in the grasps of society. The bridge...
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Holden First Time
672 wordsIn chapter two, Holden reveals some of his most important traits through his interaction with Mr. Spencer. In this scene, it is the first time you see Holden communicating with someone, but even in the beginning, he is apathetic the lesson Mr. Spencer is trying to teach him. However, although he looks at someone like Mr. Spencer negatively, he justifies his or her imperfections and keeps from disliking someone too strongly. Unfortunately, Holden does the same to himself as he does to others. He ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Decides
837 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye: Book Review December 14, 1996 The Catcher In The Rye, written by J. D. Salinger, is a fictional novel that was first published in 1965. The novel takes place in New York City and in Pennsylvania over a duration of four days. This novel tells the story of an emotionally disturbed teenager who has been kicked out of a boarding school. The story is told from the point of view of a teenager who is the narrator of the story. The main character in this novel is Holden Caulfield...
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Brother Alley Holden Love
647 wordsHolden Caulfield can be analyzed through his thoughts, actions and circumstances which surround his everyday life. Holden acts like a careless teenager. Holden has been to several prep-schools, all of which he got kicked out of for failing classes. After being kicked out of the latest, Pency Prep, he went off to New York on his own. Holden seems to have a motivation problem which apparently affects his reasoning. The basis of his reasoning comes from his thoughts. Holden thinks the world is full...
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Holden Nervous Breakdown
1,410 wordsSocieties Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the key to self-destruction. Rejection of an individual could possibly cause the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that individual due to the repudiation of society. Ostracization is not always induced by the physical appearance of a person but is sometimes caused by a character flaw. In both J. D. Salinger? s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L. Doctorow? s Ragtime the main characters, Holden and Evelyn, feel rejected by society and in isolat...
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