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Tells His Father Holden Caulfield
1,487 wordsIn J. D. Salingers, The Catcher in the Rye, the novel tries to capture the adolescent life in a hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield as the main character who is known to be a rebel against society. Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy, believes in protecting the innocent. He strongly believes in saving the innocence of children who yet not know adulthood. Especially the innocence of his little sister because he lost his brother who he believes lost his innocence when he died...
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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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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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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,814 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, begins with the novel with an authoritative statement that he does not intent for the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care, this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas, the story which forms the narrative basis for the novel. At the beginning of his story, Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School. Having been expelled for failing four out of his five classes, Holden goes to ...
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Catcher In The Rye Grab For The Gold Ring
1,644 wordsIn JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a post war novel written in 1953 is about a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield, who struggles with loss of innocence and the fact that everyone has to grow up. He yearns for perfection. He illustrates individualism and alienation in adolescents in American society, and JD Salinger uses symbolism and irony to get this point across to his audience. Holden? s language, his colloquial speech of teenagers above all provides the excitement, surprises and clue...
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Catcher In The Rye Positive And Negative
1,483 wordsCatcher in the Rye The Language of Cather in the Rye The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with mater...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
820 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is a psychological novel based on how events affect the character s mind. Holden Caulfield is an emotionally disturbed sixteen-year old boy who has trouble fitting in and finding a place for himself in society. He sees the world in a different view and dislikes people. Holden s flaw is he is unrealistic to himself and the world. It leads to the inevitability of his doom which is a total mental breakdown. Holden Caulfield is a prep school student who ...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
598 wordsThroughout the book The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger uses many symbols to explain in a deeper way what Holden Caulfield is feeling. Three symbols that Salinger uses represent anti change and things staying the same. The Museum of Natural History is an example of things staying the same. The carousel at the zoo, that Phoebe rides in the end of the story, also never changes. The job that Holden would like to have, being the catcher in the rye symbolizes him wanting to stop change from happen...
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Nervous Breakdown Brother Allie
1,506 wordsCrit Scholar 4 - 28 - 00 English 2 Ms. Nessier, Period 4 Societies Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the key to self-destruction. Rejection of an individual could possibly cause the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that individual due to the repudiation of society. Ostracization is not always induced by the physical appearance of a person but is sometimes caused by a character flaw. In both J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye and E. L. Doctorow s Ragtime the main characters, Ho...
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Recommend This Book Catcher In The Rye
767 wordsCatcher In The Rye J. D. Salinger Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919, and he was the son of a wealthy cheese importer. He graduated from a military academy and briefly attended two colleges, and after his early literary success, he became a recluse. He spent most of his time writing, and his novel, Catcher In The Rye, established him as a leading author and is still widely read, especially among adolescents. Plot: The Catcher in the Rye is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a sixteen ...
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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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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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Catcher In The Rye Point Of View
505 wordsIf you really want to hear about it, The Catcher in the Rye would be quite different in its message if told from a point of view other than Holden Caulfield. Holden s questionable instability / personality would not be fully addressed, the book would lose much of its bulk, and it would end up having a totally different story line. Narrator, Holden, exposes himself allowing the reader to see precisely what kind of guy he is. Although the question of his normality is often argued, the train of con...
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Catcher In The Rye Positive And Negative
1,479 wordsCatcher in the Rye The Language of Cather in the Rye The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with mater...
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Catcher In The Rye Positive And Negative
1,466 wordsThe passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with material that is socially scandalous for the times (Gwynn,...
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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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Detroit Michigan Gale Jerome David Salinger
2,484 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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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
457 wordsThis 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 act as he did it could have been any book that he was reading ...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
508 wordsJ. D. Salinger? s novel The Catcher in the Rye has been accused of excess vulgarity and banned from highschool classrooms, however close examination reveals it is merely the expression of a disturbed adolescent and therefore appropriate. Salinger? s background and adolescence can be examined and compared to that of Holden Caulfield, the hero in Catcher in the Rye, as well as Holden? s deep emotions and intense feelings in order to fully understand why the language was used. J. D. Salinger was bo...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden
1,728 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, just like all other great works, was met by scornful criticism and unyielding admiration. However, many literary critics also marveled at Salinger? s genius use of language, which was used to make Holden Caulfield, the main character, unbelievably realistic. Such language includes both repetition of phrases and blatant cursing, in order to capture the informal speech of the average, northeastern American adolescent. Through Holden? s thoughts and dialogues, Salinger succe...
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