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The Psychological Message Of Catcher In Rye
1,034 wordsThe Psychological Message of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye A novel, like a movie, is a form of entertainment; however, some novels do a great deal more than entertain. Some pack an emphatic psychological message. An illustration of such a publication is Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In addition, Ken Kaseys One Flew Over the Cookies Nest is a narrative with a comparable central theme. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is yet another instance of a story with an i...
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Catcher In The Rye Looked Good
1,138 wordsThe theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they " re as Holden put it "phonies. " This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950 's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist. " But I doubt it, he seemed to like kid...
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Jay And Juan Back To Normal Taylor
723 words"ARGH! I'm going to get you, you little brat!" screamed Taylor, a 14 year old native of Calgary, Alberta. Taylor whizzed around the corner to beat up her little brother Jay. "Ha! I got you Boomer!" exclaimed Taylor. "I'm gonna tell mom and your gonna be in trouble! he he. " replied Jay. As soon as Jay made that remark Taylor let him free. Jay knew that saying that he " ll tell on her would convince her to let him go anytime, so he ran around her and pulled her long auburn hair. Taylor's soft gre...
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Loss Of Innocence Catcher In The Rye
704 wordsIn a novel, the theme is the insight of real life. J. D. Salinger's initiation novel, The Catcher In The Rye, describes the adventures of 16 -year old Holden Caulfield, the protagonist and first person narrator, who refuses to grow up and enter manhood. The most important theme developed by Salinger is Holden's problem of dealing with change; he has trouble dealing with death, he refuses to accept children's loss of innocence as a necessary step in the growing-up process, and has difficulties wi...
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Good Will Hunting Catcher In The Rye
464 wordsHolden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye will have a better chance throughout life than Will Hunting from Good Will Hunting because of several reasons. First, Holden has birth parents who still care about him and help comfort him when he needs help. Another reason is how Will has grown up already with an adult brain and is set in his ways. Holden, on the other hand, is still growing up and might change his attitude on life. Another reason is how both characters received mental help in one wa...
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Censorship And The Catcher In Rye
1,009 wordsKatie Johnson sent me the exact info about the censorship of "The Catcher in the Rye." She found it in "Banned Books: Suppressed on Social Grounds" by Dawn B. So. vol. 2. New York: Facts on File, c. 1998. 'The novel has long ignited disapproval, and it was the most frequently banned book in schools between 1966 and 1975. Even before that time, however, the work was a favorite target of sensors. In 1957, Australian Customs seized a shipment of the novels that had been presented as a gift to the g...
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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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Trouble Growing Up In Catcher The Rye
1,256 wordsThroughout the entire book Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield experiences a lot of trouble while struggling with the boundary between adolescence and adulthood. Holden's basic problem in life is that he is unable to accept adulthood and grow up because he is not mature enough to handle a complex world. He likes to see things frozen because this way things are always the same so he doesnt have to worry about it. He would rather recede into a false, fantasy world he created tha...
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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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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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Catcher In The Rye Tabula Rasa
814 wordsI received word that the editors of the Little Brown and Company are considering changing the cover of JD Salingers novel, The Catcher in the Rye. I strongly recommend that the cover be left alone. The book has been commended on its exemplary literary meaning for the past fifty years; the present cover is a visual representation of this meaning. The blank cover expresses the overriding theme of controlling ones own fate, similar to John Locke's idea of the tabula rasa (blank slate). Indirectly, ...
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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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Sexuality In Catcher The Rye
484 wordsJ. D. Salingers most great masterpiece of his writing career, The Catcher in the Rye, explores the hypocrisy and the ugliness of the adult world. As written in the 1950 s, the story relates to the post-World War II time and to Salingers mentally complicated life when he was growing up. The main character, Holden Caulfield, also the narrator of the novel, goes through a psychological meltdown as his child-like innocence is shattered by the adult world. Disturbed and trapped by his own conflicting...
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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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Men And Women Males And Females
836 wordsCATCHER IN THE RYE ESSAY If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you want to know is what this lousy essay is about. Well this essay is about a boy named Holden who was a key character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. He is thought as a psycho. Holden s character is really unique for many reasons. There are also many differences in his relationships with women and men. He also has a problem with society and adjusting to it. To understand Holden, his character m...
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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,381 wordsWhat does phony mean to you? Do you consider it something that is not what it really seems? Or even something or someone that isnt normal in all ways or just in some? Phony is one of the words in the English literature that can have an endless amount of interpretations. Can be being phony possibly hinder an attempt to accomplish a task to fully function mentally? Can phony delay an individuals maturing period? In J. D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye, Holden's phony phobia restricts him from becomi...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden
1,532 wordsQUESTIONS FOR THE CATCHER IN THE RYE CHAPTERS 13 &# 038; 1 Show two ways in which the incident with Maurice and the prostitute demonstrate the theme of man? s inhumanity to man (an aspect of the world of experience). One incident (which involves the prostitute) is when Holden didn? t want to have sex with her but instead wanted to chat, she responded by saying, ? What the heck ya wanna talk about? ? This just shows that talking isn? t what she is used to doing, even if she is getting paid for it...
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Museum Of Natural History Catcher In The Rye
1,391 wordsQUESTIONS FOR THE CATCHER IN THE RYE CHAPTERS 13 &# 038; 14 1. Show two ways in which the incident with Maurice and the prostitute demonstrate the theme of man? s inhumanity to man (an aspect of the world of experience). One incident (which involves the prostitute) is when Holden didn? t want to have sex with her but instead wanted to chat, she responded by saying, ? What the heck ya wanna talk about? ? This just shows that talking isn? t what she is used to doing, even if she is getting paid fo...
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Order To Find Friends And Family
1,235 wordsA Lack of Companionship, a Lack of Joy Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel (q. in Davidoff 106). As long as man has existed, man has strived to have companions: to feel the love of friends and family. In J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield rose from his sadness and found happiness only when he realized the importance of the love and companionship offered by friends and family. Holden faced many obstruct...
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Coming Of Age Catcher In The Rye
609 wordsSome books, such as sleazy Wal-Mart romances, are dead as soon as they hit the shelves. These books are food for landfills, and probably remain in the hearts of only two people: the author and the 60 year old hermit woman who waits, with mossy teeth for her Fabio to swing from the vines of the books cover (Tarzan call and all) and rescue her from soap operas and loneliness. But, there are books that pop every once in a while that last for generations. These books sit proud in the classics sectio...
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