Comparing Holden And The Catcher In The Rye
“I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me.A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling.
“Truth, truth.” Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, but it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us.From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying,it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.”
This quote from the dead poets society shows how Todd Anderson feels, it is my belief that
Holden also feels the same way. While these boys are very different they are also similar in many ways. Todd chooses to obey his parents and do what they want him to do and follow his
brother. …show more content…
This is one of the differences between
Todd and Holden, Todd would stay miserable and keep his parents happy and keep up his imagine whereas Holden would rather run away and keep being sent to new schools making his parents look bad and be real instead of being a "phony" as Holden would say. In the catcher in the rye Holden doesn't talk much about his parents but you can imagine that they are kind people after going through the loss of loosing a child. That after they lost that child it might have become too painful to keep Holden around which is why they sent him to boarding school. With that kind of loss something might have changed in Holden, he could have thought my parents don't care that's why they sent me away. Most kids who act out do it to attract attention from their parents or someone they care about. Todd Anderson had the exact opposite parents, while they might not be great at showing love they did care about him and wanted the best for him while Holden's parents just wanted to send him away. This is one of their differences, that also makes it one of their similarities. They are both in all boy prep school but the difference is that while Todd wasn't really okay with it he dealt with it to make his
“Truth, truth.” Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, but it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us.From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying,it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.”
This quote from the dead poets society shows how Todd Anderson feels, it is my belief that
Holden also feels the same way. While these boys are very different they are also similar in many ways. Todd chooses to obey his parents and do what they want him to do and follow his
brother. …show more content…
This is one of the differences between
Todd and Holden, Todd would stay miserable and keep his parents happy and keep up his imagine whereas Holden would rather run away and keep being sent to new schools making his parents look bad and be real instead of being a "phony" as Holden would say. In the catcher in the rye Holden doesn't talk much about his parents but you can imagine that they are kind people after going through the loss of loosing a child. That after they lost that child it might have become too painful to keep Holden around which is why they sent him to boarding school. With that kind of loss something might have changed in Holden, he could have thought my parents don't care that's why they sent me away. Most kids who act out do it to attract attention from their parents or someone they care about. Todd Anderson had the exact opposite parents, while they might not be great at showing love they did care about him and wanted the best for him while Holden's parents just wanted to send him away. This is one of their differences, that also makes it one of their similarities. They are both in all boy prep school but the difference is that while Todd wasn't really okay with it he dealt with it to make his