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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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Life Is A Game Sister Phoebe
1,203 wordsEveryone knows and wants the all too true American dream, to be or wants to be something that is better than what you are or have already. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is an idealist who always envisions his life as it should be, and not as it truly is. It is the story of an emotionally disturbed sixteen-year-old boy; told through a flashback. In an attempt to deal with his problems and try to find himself, he leaves the school, which he was kicked out of to vac...
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J D Salinger First Person Point
1,293 words... a phony or moron. This behavior is seen when Holden comes in contact with Sally Hayes. Holden is talking of her somewhat positively, but then when she answers, Yes-who is this? Holden calls her a little phony. Id already told her father who it was. (Salinger 106). As Holden's realization that she is not what he is looking for becomes clearer so does his anger with her. He later continues his attempts to have Sally fill the emptiness he yearns to fill by asking her to marry him, and does not ...
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Holden Critiques The Weaknesses Of Society
439 wordsHolden attacks various weaknesses in our society. Many incidents in the novel portrayed Holden as a person with full of hate in society. He critiques everything that had happened to him, many of the situations that he has experienced come across in todays society. His point of view on phonies; loosing a loved one; not remembering the true meaning of Christmas, are all the weaknesses in society. As we read further, we start to understand Holden's reason for hating phoney's. The many people that H...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
485 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is an intriguing story. It contains marvelous character portraits, a psychological analysis of the process of growing up, and many more qualities. This book has many interesting characters and plot lines, which you will discover as you read along. The three main settings are Pencey Prep, D. Bs room, and the zoo. Pencey Prep is the high school that Holden has just been kicked out of. A few of the chapters take place here. D. Bs room is Holden's brothers ro...
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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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J D Salinger Allie Death
1,628 wordsThe Catcher Holden Caulfield is thrown out of Pency Prep and forced either to go home or to fend for himself in the adult world. Holden narrates J. D. Salinger s The Catcher In The Rye from first-person point of view. He struggles internally with the death of his brother. Also, he struggles externally while trying to find his place in the world. The story begins around Christmas at Pency Prep High School in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. It was a Saturday afternoon, and Holden was on his way to see Mr...
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Didn T Care Five Dollars
744 wordsThroughout life, an individual may endure several emotionally or physically straining moments. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield suffers much verbal abuse, as well as physical. Both forms of the abuse, combined with other factors, eventually leads Holden to suffer a mental breakdown. Holden s actions prove that A blow from a whip raises a welt, but a blow from the tongue smashes bones. Holden experiences several fights throughout the story. Near the beginning, he begins a struggle with...
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Brother Allie Dead Brother
1,139 wordsThe Book Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J. D. Salinger based on a boy and what he goes through in just three days. The book begins as Holden Caulfield tells what has happened to him previously. Curiously he does not say were he is at the moment. He is a teenager growing up in 1950 s New York. He is expelled from his prep school once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days before the end of term, and goes to New York to take a vacation before returning to his ...
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Catcher In The Rye Looked Good
2,236 wordsThe theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really theyre 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 Im pretty sure that he didnt 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 kids more than ...
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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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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,505 wordsIn The Catcher In the Rye, J. D. Salinger describes many of the events, which occurred in his life as a maturing adolescent in the 1950 s. The main character, Holden Caufield, is an extremely complex character. His obsession with sex and money, demonstrates the mindset that existed during the 50 s. The new consumer culture encouraged people to be materialistic. Although Holden is not a materialist, he does spend money without thinking. It does not seem important to him that he has designer cloth...
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Holden Pencey Prep
1,384 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye is about a man named Holden Caulfield, who is narrating the story. Holden is in a psychiatric hospital in California, where at the given moment he was spending his time. He then had a flashback of when he was a young man at the age of sixteen. The story starts off at Pencey Prep, Holden's present school at which he was flunking out of. Holden had only a few more days before his expulsion from Pencey, so he had been paying his final dues to his admired instructors, such as ...
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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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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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Place To Stay Joe Yale Holden
524 words12 / 17 / 00 Holden Caulfield is in many ways a typical teenager, skeptical of all authority and with a truculent attitude. The one value that he espouses is authenticity and morality, although he does not carry any other these characteristics himself. Holden also focuses on authenticity and, in turn, the essential phoniness of others around him but does not see the phoniness in himself. Holden's admission that he is the most terrific liar. One could meet is an apt statement, for his delusions e...
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Feelings He Feels Takes Him To A Movie Holden
895 wordsHolden Caulfield is a very strange yet unique character. I think that everybody has a certain aspect of Holden inside of them. Holden is the very quiet, loner, calm type. Not many people are like this but most have some of these factors hidden deep inside them. Some people need to be calm sometimes, some need to be alone. This is a point which makes Holden a character that is easily relatable to. Holden's personality is not exactly the model one however. On the contrary, Holden is what one does ...
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1,410 wordsSocieties 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, Holden and Evelyn, feel rejected by society and in isolat...
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