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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
764 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, is a display of characters and incidents portrayed through the eyes of an adolescent. Holden Caulfield, the main character has been revealed in the first person view in a unique narrative of a teenage boy who forms a transition into adulthood. Holden perceives the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no purity and that individuals in the world acquire a trait known as "phony. " Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield refers to the conditions of...
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Book Was Written Catcher In The Rye
1,969 wordsIn 1964, J. D. Salinger composed a novel titled The Catcher in the Rye that became quite controversial and was banned from several schools because of inappropriate content. The story is pretty dramatic, but it has many comical incidents. The book is trying to project the idea that you can run from your problems as much as you want; however it is inevitable that you face them. You cant run forever! If this were a scary movie, the evil laughter would start now. Our main character Holden Caulfield ...
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Make Him Feel Part Of Society
1,013 wordsThe novel The Catcher in the Rye is about a young man named Holden Caulfield who is on a subconscious quest to find love. Holden attends a private school named Peace where he feels he does not fit in once again. Holden Caulfield is reliant on physical love, family love as well as friendship in order for him to feel accepted in society. Holden has a subconscious desire for physical love to make him feel a part of society. Holden hired a prostitute to help him get over his feelings of being alone ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,016 wordsHolden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator of the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for academic failure. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, but he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Though he never says so outright, he longs to live in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearably painful; his cynicism is his attempt to prote...
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Fell In Love Holden Caulfield
1,421 wordsPreface - This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after it's 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 Holden Caulfield
1,067 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, by J. D Salinger, depicts how a lonely teenager, Holden Caulfield, deals with alcohol, sex, and violence. Teenagers must also deal with these problems daily. Alcohol is very predominate throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Alcoholic beverages are a readily available, and relatively inexpensive for minors to get. Over the past couple of years, teenage consumption of alcohol has risen dramatically. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism states that m...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
694 wordsAuthor: J. D. Salinger Major Characters: Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is the main character and narrator of the story. The story consists of what he is telling a psychologist about several days that Holden spent in New York after being dismissed from Pencey Prep School. During the time he talks about he had been having a nervous breakdown. The death of his brother Allie, which he blames himself for, has made him depressed and sapped his motivation. Allie s death shows that Holden doesn t kn...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
504 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye By. J. D. Salinger The setting for the Catcher in the Rye was in New York around the 1950? s. The novel covered about four days from beginning to end. The setting took place in a mental hospital in California where he flashes back to these four days in New York. This was were his family lived and that? s why this was important for the setting. There was one main character in this book and his name was Holden Caulfield. He was very smart and he was always thinking about som...
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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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Catcher In The Rye Rest Of The World
572 wordsIn the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield finds himself a protector of innocence. Throughout the whole book, the idea that children lose their innocence as they mature is widely explored, and it appears that Holden is trying to shield them from maturity. Or, at least, to keep these people pure, and innocent, in his mind. In this way, I believe Holden Caulfield is one of the most complex characters that we have read about, in school. The act of Holden giving his red hunting cap to Ph...
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Life Is A Game Men And Women
1,400 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye Does Holden need outside influence from other characters in the book to grow up? The answer is a definite yes. Within Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger uses Holden Caulfield to depict a confused teen who, through interactions with other characters, grows and matures. Holden, the main character has many different types of relationships with men and women throughout the book. Some relationships are more short-lived than others, and some are more intimate. Most importantly, h...
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Holden Caulfield Ivy League
1,566 wordsIt s nothing new, that everybody feels depressed at some time or another in their lives. However, it becomes a problem when that depression is so much a part a person s life that she can no longer see the happiness right in front her. (As tragically happens to the young boy, Holden Caulfield in J. D Salinger s novel, The Catcher in the Rye. ) Mr. Antolini accurately views the cause of Holden s depression as his lack of personal motivation, his inability to self-reflect and his stubbornness to ov...
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Main Character Holden Catcher In The Rye
636 wordsCatcher in the Rye is a fiction book written by J. D. Salinger in 1945. In the book the main character, Holden Caulfield, narrates to us the 1950 s memory of his final day at the school Peace Prep and the mental breakdown he suffered in his expedition on the streets of New York. In Catcher in the Rye there were certain important characters that need to be mentioned. The was the main character Holden Caulfield. In the flashback he was 16 years old and on the verge of mental break down. He sees th...
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Life Is A Game Fell In Love
1,414 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye / J. D. Salinger Main Character Preface 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 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...
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J D Salinger F Scott Fitzgerald
1,544 wordsJ. D. Salinger The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce In 1945, a novel was published that would forever change the way society views itself. The book, entitled The Catcher in the Rye, would propel a man named Jerome David Salinger to fame as one of the most famous authors of the twentieth century. This same man, not ten years after the publication and while still in the peak of his career, would depart from this society- the one that he so greatly ...
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