Quote #1 “The birds did not understand Snowball’s long words‚ but they accepted his explanation‚ and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart. FOUR LEGS GOOD‚ TWO LEGS BAD‚ was inscribed on the end wall of the barn‚ above the Seven Commandments and in bigger letters (3.10‚ 3.11)” Big words bad‚ small words good: it’s easier to understand rules when they’re simple‚ but simple rules tend to gloss over the complexities of human society. Like‚ "don’t tell lies" is all well
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Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy living in a society in which he believes to be full of hypocrites and "phonies". Everything with any connection to his life he believes to be a phony. From teachers to his friends‚ to people he does not even know. Holden always found some kind of a reason to give off the impression that he is superior because they are just fake. He is in belief that he is capable of understanding everything about a person just by looking at them and judging their first impression
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way to the museum‚ he recollects how every time you go there‚ “everything always stayed right where it was”(121): the museum never changed. Most people would be annoyed by this and would not return if there was nothing new to see. But not Holden Caulfield; he likes it for that very reason: it does not change. But the oddest thing that happens is that even though he had walked all the way through the cold damp park‚ he decides that he does not want to go in at all‚ exclaiming that he “wouldn’t have
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reading and teaching‚ for the story still relates to the lives of today’s teenagers‚ introduces a unique writing style to its readers‚ and teaches its readers an important lesson about phoniness. Throughout the novel‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ attempts to catch innocent children before they fall off the cliff and die or before they lose their innocence and become a corrupt and phony adult. While doing so‚ he suffers isolation
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right‚ you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself‚ and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe- This quote to me means that everything happens for a reason and it is sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. I think that this quote says that Everything that happens in one way or another has a direct impact on who you are. How you look at and react to everything that happens around you goes into defining who you
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A Cheap Ol’ Red Hat Holden Caulfield has a dominating dilemma throughout The Catcher in the Rye‚ his need for companionship and his longing for isolation. Adding to this confusion‚ he is caught between wanting to preserve the innocence of a child and wanting the independence of an adult. A cheap and simple red hunting hat‚ with no significance to anyone else but him‚ is the symbol for these conflicts. The hat is inseparable from J.D. Salinger’s portrait of Holden for a good reason: it is a symbol
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Stradilater would not use Holden’s composition about Allies mitt‚ he attacks Stradilater. Holden took that as a direct insult to Allie. Bargaining is the third step in the grieving process. This is the weaker line of defense‚ the reaction to helplessness. Unlike most bargainers who bargain with god‚ Holden bargains with Allie as if he is still there. Holden prays for Allie to keep him from disappearing. One could conclude that “disappearing” could be a representation of transitioning into adulthood
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1. Alienation Holden was explaining how he left the fencing gear back on the subway in New York. They team ostracized him the whole way back showing that he is a bit of an outcast. He tries to cover his feelings up by saying it was funny‚ but he really is hurt by this. | I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway. It wasn’t all my fault. I had to keep getting up to look at this map‚ so we’d know where to get off. So we got back to Pencey around two-thirty instead of around
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Conteaza cine spune primul! Gustave Le Bon scria în cartea Psihologia multimilor: "Am spus ca una din caracteristicile generale ale multimilor este excesiva lor sugestibilitate si am aratat cât de contagioasa este osugestie în rândul oricarei aglomerari umane‚ care explica orientarea rapida a sentimentelor într-o directie determinata. Oricât de neutra am presupune-o‚ multimea se afla într-o stare de expectativa atenta‚ favorabila sugestiei. Prima sugestie formulata se impune imediat prin contagiune
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“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.” -John Ford “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you‚ say what you’ve got to say‚ and say it hot.” -D. H. Lawrence “Let thy speech be better than silence‚ or be silent.” -Dionysius Of Halicarnassus “What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” -Jim Beggs “If you can’t write your message in a sentence‚ you can’t say it in an hour.”
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