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Brother Allie Inferiority Complex
1,558 wordsWho is Holden really? ? ? A lousy, uninteresting phony? Or is he the most intelligent and cleverest person you ever met? Well This question isnt really easy to answer. Personally I think that he is a very intellectual human who unfortunately doesnt know how to use his intellect and who is suffering from major mental problems. On the one side, he is this guy who tries to be cool and accepted by other people. However, on the other hand, he is this little lonely child who is seeking for someone who...
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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,126 words... al assumption is that religion has to do with spiritual vision. And while there may be only one religious reality, this reality must be seen, even if only momentarily through various forms. In this sense he is not a Christian writer, even though there are many references to Jesus in his fiction because his historic Christianity attributes spiritual blindness to sin, not just the lack of sensitivity that Salinger repeatedly depicts. (Lundquist, 33) Zen Buddhism is the closest to Salinger's re...
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Catcher In The Rye Tabula Rasa
814 wordsI received word that the editors of the Little Brown and Company are considering changing the cover of JD Salingers novel, The Catcher in the Rye. I strongly recommend that the cover be left alone. The book has been commended on its exemplary literary meaning for the past fifty years; the present cover is a visual representation of this meaning. The blank cover expresses the overriding theme of controlling ones own fate, similar to John Locke's idea of the tabula rasa (blank slate). Indirectly, ...
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President Ronald Reagan Federal Reserve System
2,134 wordsAlan Greenspan Alan Greenspan, the ex-head of the Federal Reserve System of the USA, is always laconic. Besides, answering the questions connected to his professional work, he masterly gives to literally several of his words so much shades of sense, that Bernard Shaw could envy him. In 1995 after one of such conversation of Greenspan with press all financial America read with interest in one of morning papers that the head of the Federal Reserve "has hinted at desire of directors of the FED to l...
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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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