What Is The Secret Life Of Holden
Protagonist Holden Caulfield faces many events that make him feel that life is just a depressing way of living. Each opportunity Holden achieves he somehow finds a way to mess it up. In Holden’s perspective life seems really unfair to him. Ever since his little brother died, life turned upside down for him. Since the day Holden left school he went through many tough events that made him go back into the past. Holden does not want to grow up. Holden`s personality is very unique. In fact Holden`s personality is the culprit of why he does not want to grow up. Since Allies death Holden has been showing depression. Prior to Holden`s depression Holden thinks about his own death. He thinks that he should’ve died instead of Allie. Holden thinks that
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Holden shows that he is afraid to grow up because he will forget all the memories of Allie. `` So what I did, I wrote a about my brother Allie`s baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was my brother Allie had this left handed mitt. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he`d have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up bat. Page 38``. When Holden wrote a description about the baseball mitt for the composition, he remembers all these little details about Allie. This shows him what kind of person Allie really was. Holden also remembers the day when they still lived in Maine, when Bobby Fallon and Holden were going to Lake Sedebego to have lunch and play with their BB gun. `` Allie heard us talking about it, and he wanted to go, and I wouldn`t let him. I told him he was a child. So once in a while, now, when I get very depressed, I keep saying to him, ``Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby`s house. Hurry up. ``It wasn`t that I didn`t use to take him with me when I went somewhere. I did. But that one day, I didn`t. He didn`t get sore about it- he never get sore about anything but I keep thinking about it any way , when I get very depressed. Page 98.
Holden shows that he is afraid to grow up because he will forget all the memories of Allie. `` So what I did, I wrote a about my brother Allie`s baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was my brother Allie had this left handed mitt. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he`d have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up bat. Page 38``. When Holden wrote a description about the baseball mitt for the composition, he remembers all these little details about Allie. This shows him what kind of person Allie really was. Holden also remembers the day when they still lived in Maine, when Bobby Fallon and Holden were going to Lake Sedebego to have lunch and play with their BB gun. `` Allie heard us talking about it, and he wanted to go, and I wouldn`t let him. I told him he was a child. So once in a while, now, when I get very depressed, I keep saying to him, ``Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby`s house. Hurry up. ``It wasn`t that I didn`t use to take him with me when I went somewhere. I did. But that one day, I didn`t. He didn`t get sore about it- he never get sore about anything but I keep thinking about it any way , when I get very depressed. Page 98.