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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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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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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
1,067 words... ous breakdown. This was evident by his bouts of unexplained depression, impetuous spending and generally odd, erratic behavior, prior to his eventual nervous collapse. Some critics have argued that Holden's character is erratic and unreliable, as he has many of the middle-class values that he claims to reject. Later on critics began to have praised the twisted humor of the main character. These critics have commented that the structure of the novel helps you understand Holden's unstable stat...
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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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Holden Caulfield Principal Thurmur Mersault
560 wordshave so clearly portrayed in both books. But as much as both have been alienated, one is an essentialist while the other remains an existentialist. Holden Caulfield being the essentialist that he is, has psychological motivation for every action he takes. He is a teenager that is struggling with the fact that everyone has to grow up, which to him means that you have to become "phony or corrupt." While on the other hand Mersault, the existentialist, does things for no reason whatsoever. He is a c...
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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 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
1,698 wordsIn The Catcher In The Rye Salinger portrays the main character Holden Caulfield as a protector of innocence which is shown through his protection of children, giving up his own innocence to help others, and his disgust of the graffiti on the walls. Holden is a very strong minded individual and is very open about the way he feels about things. Although it does not seem that he is the protector of innocence at first, as the story progresses he begins to shed more of his own innocence to affect tho...
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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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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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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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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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Valley Forge Military Academy Jerome David Salinger
2,244 wordsWelcome to a thorough report on the life of Jerome David Salinger. It will outline his life from birth to the present. It will also discuss some of his better known literary works. Information about his early life, and family, schooling, and present condition can also be found within. Jerome David Salinger, better know as J. D. Salinger, Was born in New York City, on the days of January 1, 1919. His father was Sol Salinger, and his mother, Miriam Jillich. His mother was Scotch-Irish and changed ...
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Detroit Michigan Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism
2,165 wordsThe 1950 s were a time of conservatism, the traditional American family, and similarity. During this time of the cherished American dream, a radical writer, who spoke to a nation of young individuals and alienated adults, emerged. Jerome David Salinger, generally referred to as J. D. Salinger, surfaced as a spokesman for a generation of post-World War II students and became one of the most popular American fiction writers. Salinger is most widely known for his only novel, The Catcher in the Rye....
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Catcher In The Rye Franny And Zooey
3,070 wordsBorn on January 1, 1919, Jerome David Salinger was to become one of America? s 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 ...
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F Scott Fitzgeralds Kill A Mockingbird
2,452 wordsMythology and Archetypes in Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird Of all the various approaches to criticism, the Mythological/Archetypal achieves the greatest impact over the entire literary scope, because the themes and patterns unearthed apply universally to all works, yielding results that can be applied to a great many texts. This is because the very nature of the Mythological/Archetypal approach is the exploration of the canon for widespread and pervading symbols, plots, and characters. These ...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
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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