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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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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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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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Society In General Catcher In The Rye
368 wordsThe novel, The Member of the Wedding was written by Carson McCullers. Frankie from the member of the wedding and Holden from The Catcher in The Rye, have many similarities. Both characters have trouble during adolescence because they are lonely, they cant communicate well with adults and both characters feel alienated from society in general. Frankie from The Member of the Wedding is very lonely. Frankie has only two friends in the novel, Bernice and John Henry. Bernice is the maid and John Henr...
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Sexuality In Catcher The Rye
484 wordsJ. D. Salingers most great masterpiece of his writing career, The Catcher in the Rye, explores the hypocrisy and the ugliness of the adult world. As written in the 1950 s, the story relates to the post-World War II time and to Salingers mentally complicated life when he was growing up. The main character, Holden Caulfield, also the narrator of the novel, goes through a psychological meltdown as his child-like innocence is shattered by the adult world. Disturbed and trapped by his own conflicting...
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Dead Poets Society Catcher In The Rye
498 wordsThe American dream portrays the idea that one may strive to live a perfect life where anyone can become successful or accomplish anything. A world where family life is ideal and the streets are paved with gold. The works All My Sons, Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poets Society introduce a view into North American society by presenting a realist attempting to fulfill the dream, and an idealist who disagrees with this view of life. Joe Keller and Larry Keller portray the realism versus idealism them...
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J D Salinger Museum Of Natural History
641 wordsIn The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger used symbolism throughout the novel. Three major symbols were the ducks, the Museum of Natural History, and Jane Gallagher. They all represent Holden in a way, and Salinger uses these symbols very well. While Holden is wandering around New York City, he asks many people about what happens to the ducks in the pond when it freezes. I think this really symbolizes Holden. He isnt really wondering about the ducks, he is wondering about himself. He wants to kn...
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Decides To Leave Catcher In The Rye
914 wordsIn life, we always have dreams that we desire and wish to become reality and we have goals that we plan on accomplishing. However, most of the time succeeding is harder said than done. Holden and Homer represent the people who seem to be categorized under those who have the trouble succeeding. Although they are two different people who live in two different types of society, they both share the same goal. Living in two different types of societies and being so different from each other many woul...
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Easy To Follow Loss Of Innocence
874 wordsThe Corruption of Innocence It has struck some leaving a lasting impact while others just let it go by. Some would see it as corruption, and others see everyday life. I see it as the pure loss of innocence in a world of corruption. This new issue has risen in today's generation leaving no one free of it wrath. This has not been the first we have seen of this. The loss of innocence has been referred to over years by many authors, but now we come to see it in our lives a lot more frequently. Accor...
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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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Websters New World Dictionary Catcher In The Rye
1,028 wordsWebsters New World Dictionary defines rape as the crime of having sexual intercourse with a person forcibly and without consent. Rape is a problem in modern society because it remains a commonly practiced crime. Despite the severe consequences and the fact that it is morally and ethically wrong, the number of cases are growing. It is assumed that rape has been around since the beginning of time. The only thing that has changed is how society views the crime. For instance, in ancient times the la...
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Catcher In The Rye Family Problems
645 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye is a study of ones human condition. Holden Caulfield is a teenager struggling to reach maturity. He is growing up in New York and goes through a lot of difficulties a teenager goes through in his teenage life like drinking, smoking, depression and family problems. The problems he has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers of today because a lot of teenagers in New Zealand are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers, they have depression problems and have family problems at home. These...
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Children From Growing Grab For The Gold Ring
997 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. This perception of the world does not change throughout the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change all of this. During the short period of Holden's life revealed in this book, Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy. Shortly after, Holden leaves Peace Prep and checks in to...
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Men And Women Males And Females
836 wordsCATCHER IN THE RYE ESSAY If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you want to know is what this lousy essay is about. Well this essay is about a boy named Holden who was a key character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. He is thought as a psycho. Holden s character is really unique for many reasons. There are also many differences in his relationships with women and men. He also has a problem with society and adjusting to it. To understand Holden, his character m...
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First Amendment Rights Catcher In The Rye
1,645 wordsCensorship in Public Schools -A principal in a California high school bans five books written by Richard Brautigan because he thinks they might contain obscenities or offensive sexual references (Berger 59). -A Vermont high school librarian is forced to resign because she fought the school boards decision to remove Richard Prices The Wanderers, and to restrict the use of Stephen Kings Carrie and Patrick Manns Dog Day Afternoon (Jones 33). -An Indiana school board takes action that leads to the b...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Decides
837 wordsThe Catcher In The Rye: Book Review December 14, 1996 The Catcher In The Rye, written by J. D. Salinger, is a fictional novel that was first published in 1965. The novel takes place in New York City and in Pennsylvania over a duration of four days. This novel tells the story of an emotionally disturbed teenager who has been kicked out of a boarding school. The story is told from the point of view of a teenager who is the narrator of the story. The main character in this novel is Holden Caulfield...
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Meaning Of Love Catcher In The Rye
1,485 wordsBorn on January 1, 1919, Jerome David Salinger was to become one of Americas 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 not acquire...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Feels
872 wordsLife s Many Obstacles In J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist, Holden, is faced with many obstacles. Like most tragic heroes, he is a man who is reasonably happy at the beginning of the tragedy, but as the tragedy develops, some failure in his personality begins to affect events, so that his progress is a movement from happiness to misery. The ultimate misery results from his final awareness of his personalities limits or failures. Much of Holden s misery is a result of his in...
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Year Of High School Catcher In The Rye
850 wordsWhile packing up, saying goodbye for the last time, and moving away from home I would be reviewing the items that were in my suitcase. My toothbrush, contact case, and glasses would be the first to be checked off on my mental list of must haves, but I would also make sure I had packed my three favorite literary works. Assuming that there are no libraries at my disposal near my new residence, J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis would...
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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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