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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
936 wordsIn results of writing an essay which included, .".. Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries... ", Holden Caulfield, the main character in the book, failed Pencey Prep, one of a long series of private schools which he attended. He was proud of the fact that he failed every subject except for English. One would find the book The Catcher in the Rye ex...
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922 wordsThe book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I can relate to this because although I do not view people inferior to myself, I do judge others unequally. Holden and I both have similar judgements of people from the way they act and behave. We also share feelings about mo...
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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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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 Glass Menagerie
1,134 wordsThe person someone becomes is influenced by the losses they have experienced in their life. In Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield is devastated by the loss of his younger brother Allie to leukemia. The loss of Allie never leaves Holden's mind. It changes his perception of the world. In The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield's husband abandons her and their two children Tom and Laura. For Amanda the only way to deal with the loss is to escape into a dream world. She forces this ...
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Catcher In The Rye Loss Of Innocence
977 wordsThe Loss of Innocence The most precious time in a person s life is their childhood. A carefree attitude towards life and a great sense of innocence evolve and the yearning to remain a child forever develops. Childhood is the time when you set all your troubles aside, pay no bills, have no homework and don t worry that every action you take will upset your parents. As you mature into adulthood your innocence is lost and sometimes a wall of phoniness builds itself around you. In JD Salingers Catch...
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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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Drinking And Smoking Perception Of The World
2,239 wordsHolden Caulfield, portrayed in the J. D. Salinger novel Catcher in the Rye as an adolescent struggling to find his own identity, possesses many characteristics that easily link him to the typical teenager living today. The fact that they book was written more than forty years ago clearly exemplifies the saying boys will be boys? no matter what period of time is taking place. Holden's actions are those that any teenage can clearly relate with. The desire for independence, the sexually related enc...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Feels
464 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye Essay Each person s value systems contribute to the way they are perceived and identified. I have two siblings, and I consider them to be complete opposites. While my sister might love and cherish one thing, my brother might smother and denounce it. In J. D. Salinger s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield s siblings all have different value systems. It is because of these differences in value systems that Holden has different attitudes toward Allie, D. B. , and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Desire For Independence Holden Caulfield Teens
976 wordsSexuality/ Boy Code As a Teen Holden Caulfield, is portrayed in Catcher in the Rye as an adolescent boy struggling to find his own identity, possesses many characteristics that easily link him to the typical teenager. Holden s actions are those that any teenager can clearly relate to. The desire for independence, the sexually related encounters, and the questioning of ones religion are issues that almost all teens have had or will have to deal with in their adolescent years. The novel and its ma...
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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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591 wordsPeople may not Phonies Phonies People may not be what they appear to seem like. For Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, he calls these people phonies. Holden despise people who try to act like someone in which they are not. He encounters numerous amounts of phonies in his journey throughout New York City and even before he left the boarding school, Pencey Prep. Many characters in the novel share this common theme of phoniness. Holden sees Mr. Spencer, his pa...
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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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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
827 wordsThe dawning of mourning The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger Little, Brown, 1951 When JD Salingers The Catcher in the Rye was first published, the reviews were hostile and dismissive. However, by 1953 when I, a sulky 17 -year-old American, read the book, it was already a classic. I could recite whole passages by heart while looking suggestively into the eyes of my date who, like me, thought everything about the adult world was, as Holden Caulfield said, phoney. The book celebrated the good English...
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