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Kings In The Back Doesnt Understand
1,044 words... e is a contradiction with this aspect of Holden's personality. He doesnt accept the rules set before him by phony adults. He believes that rules are only for the strong, yet he makes rules for himself although he never keeps them. Im always setting myself rules about sex and I immediately break them. The final aspect of Holden Caulfields personality is his respect for others. He cant stand people who dont respect or listen to what others have to say. He also thinks it is important to listen ...
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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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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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Stradlater Said But I Knew Catcher In The Rye Holden
583 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye - foreshadowing - The use of for shadowing in a novel can help it's reader get a sense of what is to come in the story without giving away the events themselves. It is a powerful tool which prevents events from being left unexplained, leaving the reader question the effectiveness of an outcome. The eventual breakdown of the character Holden Caufield in J. D. Salinger's controversial 1945 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" was foreshadowed in the early chapters of the book. The...
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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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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,295 wordsHolden Caulfield's monologue in The Catcher in the Rye is an examination of one boy's struggle of entering into adulthood. He is a classic screw up with no goals, just as Stradlater, his roommate at Percent, states; "you don't do one damn thing the way you " re supposed to" (Salinger 41). It is really Holden's avoidance of having to grow up and his fears related to it. It is because of Holden's fears the he becomes so full of despair and loneliness and is often nauseated by the world around him ...
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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,394 wordsWhat does phony mean to you? Do you consider it something that is not what it really seems? Or even something or someone that isn't normal in all ways or just in some? Phony is one of the words in the English literature that can have an endless amount of interpretations. Can be being phony possibly hinder an attempt to accomplish a task to fully function mentally? Can phony delay an individuals maturing period? In J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Holden's "phony phobia" restricts him from be...
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Loss Of Innocence Banana Fish
1,134 words... e. Inability or disapproval to accept maturity is often a cause of characters loneliness. Holden is torn apart by two dominating forces in his life. One pulls him into maturity, advising him to grow up and leave behind both his innocence and childhood, while the other does not want to free him from his past. For any human being, accomplishing these two things at once is an impossible task, and yet the protagonist presses on, attempting to do so anyway. Holden dreams of remaining as innocent ...
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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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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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Catcher In The Rye Sex Life
582 wordsCatcher in the Rye The book Catcher in the Rye Holden expresses many issues that get to him personally. One of the issues deals with his sexuality. Holden, is very homophobic, thinks a lot of guys he meets in the story are fifty. Holden also shares with us that he doesnt like his sex life, he even goes as far as getting a hooker but he backs (out of course! ) In Holden's story he goes trough a very big change. He deals with his loss of innocence's and the strange situations he gets into. Holden'...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,412 wordsCatcher in the Rye Essay I keep picturing all these kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's big but me. And Im standing on the edge of some crazy cliff -What do I have to do, I have to catch them. I mean their running, and they dont look where their going, so I must come out of somewhere and catch them. (Salinger, 173) J. D. Salinger, in his timeless classic, The Catcher in the Rye, a novel depicting the complications of life as an adolesce...
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Couple Of Days People
566 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye The main character in this book is Holden Caulfield. He is a young man that has just recently attended and flunked out of, or as he says, got the ax from Pencey prep school, in Pennsylvania. The book starts out with his last days at the school, and kind of gives a description of the environment of the school, and the kind of people that attended with him. It starts with him getting in a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, over this girl Stradlater went out with, who is Ho...
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Low Self Esteem Doesn T
587 wordsThe novel The Catcher In The Rye was written by J. D Salinger. The whole story revolves around one character, Holden Caufeild. He is a fifteen or 16 -year-old boy, who tells a story in the third person to the reader. Holden is a character who suffers from low self-esteem, is a judgmental and a dishonest person. These points will be proven through the following characters: Stradlater, Ackley, and Mrs. Morrow. Holden is a person with low self-esteem and will do anything Stardlater tells him to do....
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Main Character Holden York Chelsea House
1,397 wordsHolden Caulfield: Saint, Snob, or Somewhere In-between? Although J. D. Salinger has only one novel to his credit, that novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is recognized as an exceptional literary work. The key to the success of The Catcher in the Rye is the main character, Holden Caulfield. There are many different critics that view Holden in many different ways. Some believe Holden to be a conceited snob, while others see Holden as a Christ-like figure. It is my opinion, however, that Holden is some...
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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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Catcher In The Rye Elkton Hills
1,381 wordsWhat does phony mean to you? Do you consider it something that is not what it really seems? Or even something or someone that isnt normal in all ways or just in some? Phony is one of the words in the English literature that can have an endless amount of interpretations. Can be being phony possibly hinder an attempt to accomplish a task to fully function mentally? Can phony delay an individuals maturing period? In J. D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye, Holden's phony phobia restricts him from becomi...
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Problem Solving Skills Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
1,127 wordsAustin Camporin 9 / 24 / 98 Hon. English Similarities Between Holden and Huck Ever since man first set foot upon the wry terrain of this planet, he has constantly sought to compare the characters of two individuals. For example, the comparison between John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln is one that is often raised. Although most of these comparisons have dealt with non-fictional individuals, a plethora has been made using fictional characters. One such popular comparison is that of Huckleberry F...
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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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