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J D Salinger S E Hinton
970 wordsImagine this: you write a novel, and it is banned. All that hard work down the drain. To J. D. Salinger and S. E. Hinton this is not a figment of their imagination. This IS reality. Salinger's Catcher in The Rye and Hinton's The Outsiders have been banned in many school districts and public libraries. These two mistreated novels, each of the authors most famous, are proof of their literary greatness. Their greatness can be found in their literary style. Although these authors are similar in some...
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Holden Story School
264 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye is a story of an emotionally disturbed young sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield. At first, I expected something totally different from what I got. It tells of an upper-middle class boy his age encounters while on the way home from school. He is an average adolescent with an attitude and sarcasm that fits him. He is uncomfortable with his own weaknesses, and at times shows as much phoniness, meanness, and superficiality as anyone else in the book does. Holden finds...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,082 wordsJ. D. Salinger in his stories portrayed people who don't fit in with the traditional American culture of the 1950 s. The post war society was believed to be happy as standard of living seemed higher, American technology was soaring and, politically, and economically America played a superior position in the world. Though there were some radicals who were not contented with such a situation, they couldnt accept a conforming way of live but they focused not only on a comfortable but meaningless li...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,140 words... woman of twenty years recollects her experiences as an actress in school plays: I just quit [acting], that's all, ' Franny said. 'It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac. 's he reflected. 'I don't know. It seemed like such poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the ego. And I used to hate myself so, when I was in a play, to be backstage after the play was over. All those egos running around feeling terribly charitable and war...
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Society In General Catcher In The Rye
368 wordsThe novel, The Member of the Wedding was written by Carson McCullers. Frankie from the member of the wedding and Holden from The Catcher in The Rye, have many similarities. Both characters have trouble during adolescence because they are lonely, they cant communicate well with adults and both characters feel alienated from society in general. Frankie from The Member of the Wedding is very lonely. Frankie has only two friends in the novel, Bernice and John Henry. Bernice is the maid and John Henr...
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J D Salinger Museum Of Natural History
641 wordsIn The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger used symbolism throughout the novel. Three major symbols were the ducks, the Museum of Natural History, and Jane Gallagher. They all represent Holden in a way, and Salinger uses these symbols very well. While Holden is wandering around New York City, he asks many people about what happens to the ducks in the pond when it freezes. I think this really symbolizes Holden. He isnt really wondering about the ducks, he is wondering about himself. He wants to kn...
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Make Others Feel Lies To Make Others Feel Throw
402 wordsOne of his elements of his moral code is that it's all right to lie to make people feel better. One quote to prove that is, "Old Mrs. Morrow didn't say anything but boy you should have seen her. I had her glued to her seat. You take somebody's mother; all they want to hear about is what a hot-shot their son is. " There you can see that Mrs. Morrow was really happy to hear that her son was doing well at Peace, which made her feel better about her son. The point is that even though he lies, he som...
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Websters New World Dictionary Catcher In The Rye
1,028 wordsWebsters New World Dictionary defines rape as the crime of having sexual intercourse with a person forcibly and without consent. Rape is a problem in modern society because it remains a commonly practiced crime. Despite the severe consequences and the fact that it is morally and ethically wrong, the number of cases are growing. It is assumed that rape has been around since the beginning of time. The only thing that has changed is how society views the crime. For instance, in ancient times the la...
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Holden Phoebe World
248 wordsJames Madison Summer 2000 Eddie Yakubovich English 2 The Catcher In The Rye I. Holden Caulfield? The central character and narrator of the novel. Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Peace Prep. He just got expelled for failing school. Holden is smart and sensitive, but he tells his story in a sarcastic way. Though he never says so, he wants to live in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the ugliness of the world around him very painful. His sarcasm is his way of protecti...
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Fact That Holden Writing Style
342 wordsprofessors alike because the subject matter is so controversial. The ideas in the book are not new, nor are they even hot topics in the world today, but rather they are questions that everyone has to ask themselves during life. Everyone has to make choices about what is important to them during life and the period of Holden's life at which the book is written is often the hardest part of life for many people. This appeal to young readers comes from the fact that Holden, the main character, is a ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
654 wordsAlthough the novel The Catcher and the Rye is a very controversial novel because of the vulgar language, almost every classic book ever written has created a big controversy at one point in time. Although the vulgarity of the language in the novel is inappropriate, it helps reveal the purpose and theme of which the novel portrays. This book 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 ...
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Museum Of Natural History Catcher In The Rye
782 wordsAll novels contain common elements and qualities. In most cases the plot, conflict, and a narrative voice forms the style of writing. Frequently the incidents told are direct experiences from the narrator himself. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger and Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens employ these characteristics, particularly using a constructive voice, symbolism, and a complex connected sequence of events, dealing with human experiences. There are many instances in The Catcher in the R...
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Mummy Exhibit Dead Guys Kind
610 wordsThis is for an assignment where we had to write a continuation extra scene type thing in the style of Holden. Prologue: Before my scene takes place, Holden has just shown the two young boys down to the long tunnel to the Mummy exhibits. In the book Holden didnt stay and look at the mummy exhibit, but in my scene he does? NEW SCENE So, after the little kids left I got to thinking about mummies, and death and all other kinds of depressing thoughts. A guy can get real depressed thinking about death...
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Catcher In The Rye Sixteen Year
257 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, is one of the first novels written with young adults in mind. It is written in the first person, with the main character, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, telling the story. His main goal is to be accepted society, while protecting and maintaining a sense of innocence in those who are special and close to him. He is turned-off by anyone who doesn? t see the world as he does. The theme of innocence is seen throughout the book by using the other charact...
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J D Salinger Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
813 wordsThe Loss of Innocence Certain childhood experiences are missed out by some people because of mishaps early on in life. Any unfortunate event could cause the loss of innocence and make a child mature before his or her time. This event or experience would cause them to sacrifice their innocence. Many pieces of literature contain the loss of innocence as a theme. Examples of these would be The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Catcher in the Rye. The Scarlet Letter, by Nat...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden
369 wordsThe Catcher in the rye J. D. Salingar This story is about this boy, Holden Caulfield, to who gets kicked out of every school, he ever was in. He feels like hes an outcast to his family because everyone smart in his family except him. Instead telling his parents, The Dean has kicked him out of school. He wants to hitch hike out west where he will be a catcher in the rye. He has been in the finest boarding schools in New York but cant manage to stay in them. At first, he went Elkton Hills he didnt...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
2,219 wordsBeing J. D. Salinger Salinger's Reality Being one of the most widely read authors in the English language, J. D. Salinger has successfully kept himself out of the public eye for most of his career (Grodin 1). Growing up during the times of the Great Depression, the 1920 s and 1930 s, Salinger never really felt any direct affects from it. His father was a prosperous Jewish importer, and his mother, a Scots-Irish house wife (Disc Aut 1). During his childhood, Salinger's family was well off, and co...
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Catcher In The Rye Prep School
298 wordsBook Report Jamie Soetaert March 3. 2000 Catcher In The Rye J. D. Salinger J. D. Salingers book Catcher In The Rye, is important because the book makes you feel why you are important in life. It also make you feel that life is not as complicated as in the book. Im glad I dont have to go through what Holden Caulfield had gone through. For example in the beginning of the book he had a fight with his roommate over a girl he used to date named Jane Gallagher. Holden and his roommate had the fight be...
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Wrong With Growing Holden Salinger Holden's
320 wordsScience can be seen as the study of what is held in common between many particular instances. Art, among other things, is an attempt to capture the specific, and thus illuminate the general. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is first and foremost about the journey of one individual, Holden Caulfield, into self-discovery. However, in writing about Holden, Salinger has somehow managed to capture the conflicts and identity crises which many young adults his age are caught in. Also, despite Ho...
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Holden Doesnt Phony
482 wordsCharacter Analysis of Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old mentally unbalanced teenager who sees absolutely no joy in life. He has dropped out of many schools, and Peace was just one of them. Holden feels absolutely no motivation and flunks out of all the prestigious schools hes sent to. He recognizes everyone as a bastard, or a phony. No one is real to him, except Jane, Phoebe, D. B. and his late brother Allie. Those are the only people he truly cares for in the world. In t...
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