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  • Loss Of Innocence In Catcher The Rye
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    Nothing 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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  • Desire For Independence Holden
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    Holden Caulfield, portrayed in the J. D. Salinger novel Catcher in the Rye as an adolescent struggling to find his own identity, possesses many characteristics that easily link him to the typical teenager living today. The fact that they book was written more than forty years ago clearly exemplifies the saying "boys will be boys" no matter what period of time is taking place. Holden's actions are those that any teenage can clearly relate with. The desire for independence, the sexually related en...
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  • Stradlater Said But I Knew Catcher In The Rye Holden
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    The 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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  • Life Is A Game Sister Phoebe
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    Everyone knows and wants the all too true American dream, to be or wants to be something that is better than what you are or have already. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is an idealist who always envisions his life as it should be, and not as it truly is. It is the story of an emotionally disturbed sixteen-year-old boy; told through a flashback. In an attempt to deal with his problems and try to find himself, he leaves the school, which he was kicked out of to vac...
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  • Loss Of Innocence Catcher In The Rye
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    In 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 Committing Suicide
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    ... be, especially to him. He says, I started thinking how old Phoebe would feel if I got Pneumonia and died. It was a childish way to think but I couldnt stop myself. Shed feel pretty bad if something like that happened. She likes me a lot. I mean shes quite fond of me. Holden does not want kids to grow-up into the world that he sees as so horrible. He wants to keep children the way they are, and be the only adult to watch over them. Holden comments, Certain things should stay the way they are....
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  • Grab For The Gold Ring Innocent Children
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    In The Catcher in Rye, Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace of mind, or innocence. His perception of the world does not change as the novel develops however, towards the end Holden gradually comes to realize that he is powerless to change it. Ironically I think he does mature as the novel progresses. Although we are only told of a short period of Holden's life in the book, Holden is very successful in telling his point of view of the world, a crazy, and cor...
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  • Holden Caufield Main Character
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    From the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the youthful protagonist Holden Caufield, employs the word phony to describe the behavior of a number of characters including Mr. Spencer and Ossenburger, however it is not them who are phony, it is the young main character. First, Mr. Spencer, Holden's ex- history teacher, is not described as phony, but according to the adolescent, his choice of words are. Secondly, according to our main character, Ossenburger is not the generous philanthropist he portray...
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  • Catcher In The Rye Glass Menagerie
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    The 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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  • Catcher In The Rye Holden Caufield
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    Holden Caufield the 16 year old protagonist and main character of The Catcher in the Rye narrates the story and explains all the events throughout three influential days of his life. A prep school student who has just been kicked out of his second school, Holden struggles to find the right path into adulthood. He does not know what road to follow and he uses others as the scapegoat for his puzzlement in life. Harold Bloom explains, His central dilemma is that he wants to retain a child's innocen...
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  • Lord Of The Flies Loss Of Innocence
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    In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive, they encounter conflicts that mirror the decayed society from which they have come. In The Lord of the Flies, the theme is innocence and the loss of it. Another way to describe the fear of the unknown could be man ultimately reverti...
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  • Children From Growing Catcher In The Rye
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    The 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 significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy. 1 Shortly after Holden leaves Peace Prep he checks in...
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  • Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
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    Analysis of the Catcher in the Rye In 1919 Jerome David Salinger was born to Sol and Miriam Jillich Salinger. This man would have a moderately normal childhood attending the private Mc Burney School in Manhattan, and afterwards the Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1936. He then attended New York University for an unsuccessful summer session in short-story writing. This 20 th century novelist would later come to be known as J. D. Salinger and write many short s...
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  • J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
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    ? ? ? ? ? ? The characteristics of Holden from the book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, will be compared to the modern teenager. ? The characteristics of both sets of teenagers are basically similar, but in some parts, they are different. I chose myself as the modern teenager to be compared to Holden. There will be four major subjects to be talked about in the essay. The main subjects that are going to be discussed in this essay are academics, family, experiences and slang. ? I thought...
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  • Place To Stay Joe Yale Holden
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    12 / 17 / 00 Holden Caulfield is in many ways a typical teenager, skeptical of all authority and with a truculent attitude. The one value that he espouses is authenticity and morality, although he does not carry any other these characteristics himself. Holden also focuses on authenticity and, in turn, the essential phoniness of others around him but does not see the phoniness in himself. Holden's admission that he is the most terrific liar. One could meet is an apt statement, for his delusions e...
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  • Detroit Michigan Gale Contemporary Literary Criticism
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    A Biography of J. D. Salinger with Concentration on the Early 1950? s, Particularly 1951 - 1952. 1. The 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 popula...
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  • Meaning Of Love Catcher In The Rye
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    Born 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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  • Meaning Of Life Catcher In The Rye
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    Phoniness: The True Face And The False Face What happen if everyone in the world is wearing a mask? That is exactly what this world is; everyone wears a mask. Most people we see every day have their true identity hidden behind a facade. Although a true identity cannot be divulge just by looking, but with a careful scrutiny of ones character will reveal to what is behind the facade. Equivalent to what happened in J. D. Salingers novel The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield, a typical teenager i...
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  • Catcher In The Rye Holden Sees
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    In Pony Encounters Phony Encounters In JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield critiques people for being deceptive or, as he would say phony. He uses the word phony to describe people that are false, counterfeit, or untrue to themselves. Holden has a broad definition of the word phony. Many characters, in Holden's mind, can be classified as phony in the novel. For example, his classmates at Pency Prep, Elkton Hills, people who use the word grand, and showoffs are ...
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  • Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
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    The 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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