Examples Of Nostalgia In Catcher In The Rye

While this isn’t one of my greatest timed essay, I am proud of what I’ve accomplished from writing down this essay. The introduction and thesis statement is perfect, absolutely perfect. It’s one of the best introduction that I ever wrote. I choose nostalgia as my main talking point of how it can affect a person and how that person sees the world. I reminisce the past a lot, so I found Holden to be really relatable. While most people see nostalgia as a harmless feeling of look back to the past, I see nostalgia as a burden that hold you back from moving on and growing up. There are many occurrence in the Catcher in the Rye where the main character Holden Caulfield look back at his past. He reminisce the time he spent with Allie, Jane, and Phoebe,
and those fragment of the past makes him cherish the the innocence of childhood and fear the inevitable choice of growing up. I felt like my first body paragraph that talks about Allie was decent, but I felt like I could have improve upon it a little bit more. I was struggle with the second body paragraph. That paragraph talks about Jane and her relationship with Holden. I know about the situation between Holden and Jane, but I just didn’t know how to put it down in words. I manage to finish the paragraph, but I didn’t make a good distinction of how Jane is different compared to other girls like Sally Hayes. If I were to go back and add more to this paragraph, I would included a description of how Jane is important to Holden. After finishing my second body paragraph, I ended my essay with a simple conclusion as I didn’t have enough time to think up a third paragraph. I wish I could have added more to this essay as the Catcher in the Rye is like the book that I really feel a connection with. But either way, I did my best on this essay.