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Catcher In The Rye Family Problems
645 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye is a study of ones human condition. Holden Caulfield is a teenager struggling to reach maturity. He is growing up in New York and goes through a lot of difficulties a teenager goes through in his teenage life like drinking, smoking, depression and family problems. The problems he has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers of today because a lot of teenagers in New Zealand are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers, they have depression problems and have family problems at home. These...
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Catcher In The Rye Character
636 wordsDefinition of Modernism in Fiction Modernism, in literature, can be seen as a shift in focus to the unassociated introspective reflection of characters in such texts as Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin, Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West and The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. This is a revision from the previous focal point of exterior events and places in correlation with the character? s reflections. Emphasis is placed on review upon feelings and thoughts, and even conver...
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Catcher In The Rye Book
266 wordsSimon Martinez English 2 Catcher in the Rye Block 1; Mr. Pierce The story Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger tells of a young high school boy who? s fed up with hie phony life and all the phony people around him. The boy gets kicked out of several private high schools and decides that he? s had enough of that life and to leave the school that he is currently attending to have some fun. He leaves the school and goes to New York and without notifying his parents. He stops off at a couple of nig...
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Year Old Boy Catcher In The Rye
549 wordsThe title of the book refers to a song Holden heard from a little boy. One line says: If a body meets a body coming through the rye. Holden thought it was If a body catches a body He pictures himself catching children who are playing in a rye-field. The Catcher in the Rye is a story about the thought and opinions of an emotionally disturbed young sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield who runs away from school because he was expelled, and meets people who only annoy him. The story begins an...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Mind
442 wordsHolden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old prep student who failed out of school miserably the week before Christmas. A few days before he is scheduled to vacate his position at the school he concludes that he shall go to New York City where he lives. Even though Holden has many friends in both school and in New York he usually finds himself lonely and in need of someone to listen to him. The only person he thinks of like someone who is truly his friend is his ten-year-old sister Phoebe. He wishes h...
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Wanted To Die Choice Of Words
865 wordsIn The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, can be perceived as a masochistic person. His younger brother, Allie, had died from leukemia and Holden somehow blamed himself. He thought of his brother as being a better person than he was and that he should have died instead of Allie. After his death, Holden projected his anger against himself in a masochistic manor. Three instances where the reader can see that Holden is a masochistic person are when he punched the car and garage windows...
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Year Old Boy Catcher In The Rye
966 wordsIn this book, the main character, Holden Mc Field, tells the story about what happened during his Summer vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. Because he is afraid that his parents would find out this fact, he goes to a hotel in Las Vegas instead of going home after he leaves school for Summer vacation. In Las Vegas, many things happen to him within a few weeks. For example, he goes to the hotel bar and meets two women after he first arrives the...
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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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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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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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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 Catcher In The Rye
822 wordsJohn Smith Holden Caulfield, the main character in J. D. Salinger? s The Catcher in the Rye, is very complex, mentally and emotionally. The readers of the novel would not be able to understand Holden as much as they do, if it was not for Holden? s deceased younger brother Allie. Although Allie is never actually met in the novel, Holden? s discussions about him and his? conversations? with him help us understand Holden better. It may seem strange that a dead character would shed so much light on ...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Believes
1,173 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 214 pages Catcher in the Rye is a complicated book about a young man going through, what appears to be a nervous break down. This is a book about the boys negative self-talk, horrible outlook on life, and a life itself that seems to keep swirling down the toilet. He keeps trying to fill his life with something, but the reality of it is he doesnt exactly now what he needs. Its complicated to understand at parts, because all he does is think of things in t...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,147 wordsJ. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye provides a provocative inquiry into the crude life of a depressed adolescent, Holden Caulfield. Without intensive analysis and study, Holden appears to be a clearly heterosexual, vulgar yet virtuous, typical youth who chastises phoniness and decries adult evils. However, this is a fallacy. The finest manner to judge and analyze Holden is by his statements and actions, which can be irrefutably presented. Holden Caulfield condemns adult corruption and phonine...
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Meaning Of Love Catcher In The Rye
1,485 wordsBorn on January 1, 1919, Jerome David Salinger was to become one of Americas greatest contemporary authors. In 1938 Salinger briefly attended Ursinus College in Pennsylvania where he wrote a column, Skipped Diploma, which featured movie reviews for his college newspaper. Salinger made his writing debut when he published his first short story, The Young Folks, in Whit Burnett's Story magazine (French, xiii). He was paid only twenty-five dollars. In 1939, at the age of 20, Salinger had not acquire...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Feels
872 wordsLife s Many Obstacles In J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist, Holden, is faced with many obstacles. Like most tragic heroes, he is a man who is reasonably happy at the beginning of the tragedy, but as the tragedy develops, some failure in his personality begins to affect events, so that his progress is a movement from happiness to misery. The ultimate misery results from his final awareness of his personalities limits or failures. Much of Holden s misery is a result of his in...
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J D Salinger Franny And Zooey
1,182 wordsWhile everyone knows about Catcher, not many have read this other classic by J. D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey is a story about Franny Glass, a young college girl and her brother Zooey, an actor in his middle 20 s. Like The Catcher in the Rye, a theme in this book is questioning people and the World Franny finds a new religious idea, which starts her wondering about life and what she should do with hers. ? As everyone knows, that is very complicated stuff to question, and it spawns a mini-breakdo...
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Year Of High School Catcher In The Rye
850 wordsWhile packing up, saying goodbye for the last time, and moving away from home I would be reviewing the items that were in my suitcase. My toothbrush, contact case, and glasses would be the first to be checked off on my mental list of must haves, but I would also make sure I had packed my three favorite literary works. Assuming that there are no libraries at my disposal near my new residence, J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis would...
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Meaning Of Life Catcher In The Rye
679 wordsPhoniness: The True Face And The False Face What happen if everyone in the world is wearing a mask? That is exactly what this world is; everyone wears a mask. Most people we see every day have their true identity hidden behind a facade. Although a true identity cannot be divulge just by looking, but with a careful scrutiny of ones character will reveal to what is behind the facade. Equivalent to what happened in J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield, a typical teenager i...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
624 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye The past three weeks I have been reading the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J. D. Salinger. It takes place back in the middle nineteen hundreds. The story is about a College student whom attends college at Pencey University. This is his third school in his many years attending college. His name is Holden Caulfield. The reason being he gets very low grades such as all F s and every once and awhile he may pass a class. At Pencey, he is the manager of the fencing te...
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