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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
764 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, is a display of characters and incidents portrayed through the eyes of an adolescent. Holden Caulfield, the main character has been revealed in the first person view in a unique narrative of a teenage boy who forms a transition into adulthood. Holden perceives the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no purity and that individuals in the world acquire a trait known as "phony. " Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield refers to the conditions of...
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Loss Of Innocence In Catcher The Rye
578 wordsNothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost exemplifies the loss of innocence. The poem displays how you are pure and innocent when you are a child but as you mature, it is impossible to remain this way. In The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden will soon realize that nothing Holden's main goal in life is to protect children from losing their innocence. He designates this to the role of catcher in the rye, who catches children before they fall off the cliff. Symbolically, the cliff represent...
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Holden Sees Gold Ring
746 words"This fall I think you " re riding for- it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started. " Holden Caulfield's fall to psychological breakdown begins with...
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Lives In His World Holden Caufield Life
916 wordsAs humans, we adjust to our surroundings and distinguish reality from imagination. At a young age, we play with our imagination and ignore reality. But as we mature, we learn not to take things for granted. We realize that reality is real, and imagination is make-believe. The world can be confusing. Reality is translated differently by each individual. Actions that may be bothersome to some, may seem normal to most. This behavior is evident in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. ...
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Catcher In The Rye Love And Affection
1,372 wordsJerome David Salinger was a very famous American author who wrote several books. One of his most successful books was The Catcher in the Rye. Other works by Salinger include the short story collection Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High The Beam, Carpenter and Seymour. In the book The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield, became a model of the rebellious and confused adolescent who detected the phoniness of the adult world. (Microsoft Encyclopedia 98). This showed that he had a serious...
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J D Salinger World War Ii
1,312 wordsEveryone struggles to find their place in society. Some follow the rules society has set for them exactly, while others have a hard time dealing with the transition from childhood to adulthood. The Catcher in the Rye was written post World War II, and magnifies some of the problems Americas youth was going through. Salinger uses everything from comedy and obscenity to violence and death to get his point across. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in The Rye exemplifies the struggles a forlorn and confu...
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Mr And Mrs Holden Caulfield
1,239 wordsOn May 14, 1998, I received a phone call from Dr. Smith concerning a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield, the son of one of his patients. Dr. Smith provided me with a summary of Holden's condition and made me aware of the fact that he needed professional help. After hearing about this, I decided to make an arrangement to meet with Holden's mother. Later that week, Holden's mother arrived at my office and informed me more thoroughly of Holden's condition, in an apologetic tone because she...
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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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Catcher In The Rye Vs Don Quixote
1,004 wordsJ. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye can be compared to Cervantes Don Quixote. Both novels feature naive protagonists pining for an ideal world. In Salingers novel, Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old who experiences challenging and questionable events in the mid-stage of his adolescence. Holden wants to protect the innocent children like the catcher in the rye from the immorality and corruptness of the phony adult world. In Cervantes work, Don Quixote is the idealistic protagonist who sets...
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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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Men And Women Nature Of Life
2,068 words... de of their immediate dramatic context has the unfortunate tendency to immortalize a passage as some special insight into the nature of life when it is, in fact, quite the reverse. The speech of Jaques is, along with the advice of the Polonius to his son, the most famous example of this problem. Far from being a particularly mature earned insight into anything important, Jaques's speech is an indication of his limited and unwelcome sense of the unsatisfactory nature of life. The entrance of ...
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Older Brother D B
911 wordsGrow Up with Phony Characteristic The appeal of The Catcher in the Rye lies in the main character, Holden Caulfield. In this story, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. He makes reference to the word phony several separate times throughout the novel. The ways Holden acts around or reacts to people in the story give the reader a direct view of Holden's idea of whether he thinks they are phony or normal. Each time he uses the phony word, it seems to be refer...
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Kings In The Back Holden Mind
492 wordsThere is a time in a person s existence when they loose their innocence. No longer are they sheltered from the harsh outside world, they are a part of it. They are now corrupt. A process that engulfs all and is only stopped by death. These are the thoughts of Holden Cauffield right before he has a mental breakdown. Holden adores innocence and how only the young are subject to it. In Holden s mind there are three people in particular Holden knows who are the epitome of innocence. These people are...
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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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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 Adult World
942 wordsThe title of the book A Catcher in the Rye is reflected in the mistaken words of a poem by Robert Burns. Holden thought it was If a body catch a body coming through the rye. Thats what he wanted to be. The only older individual in a group of kids in the rye, that he would catch them before they fall off the cliff. Many events caused this belief or illusion that he could stop people falling off and eventually he came to many realisation's. Holden Caulfield was (believe it or not) an average teena...
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Holden Phoebe World
248 wordsJames Madison Summer 2000 Eddie Yakubovich English 2 The Catcher In The Rye I. Holden Caulfield? The central character and narrator of the novel. Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Peace Prep. He just got expelled for failing school. Holden is smart and sensitive, but he tells his story in a sarcastic way. Though he never says so, he wants to live in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the ugliness of the world around him very painful. His sarcasm is his way of protecti...
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Holden Caulfield Crazy Cliff
1,968 wordsNikki Bumbacco Ms. Harrison ENG OAC July 24, 2000 The Catcher in the Rye: Analysis of Holden Caulfeild Innocence, Compassion, and some? Crazy? Cliff. A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J. D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and ...
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Catcher In The Rye Place In Society
1,569 wordsA novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J. D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and perils, which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and squalor in the grasps of society. The bridge...
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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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