Mikahla Denney Mr. Snow English II PAP- 3 12 March 2012 The Catcher in the Rye: Salinger v. Caulfield During World War II and the post war era after‚ many peoples’ lives went down paths that lead their sanity to meander‚ just like that of J.D. Salinger. Salinger grew up as a very bright child‚ yet his work effort lacked great stamina which caused him to flunk average school‚ requiring a military academy. Once Salinger reached adulthood‚ he became lost in his paranoid thoughts and secluded
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This semester‚ I read the book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. This is a stunning book about a teenager named Holden Caulfield who has gotten kicked out of prep school after prep school‚ and after being kicked out of his current school‚ he tries to avoid making contact with his parents so they don’t find out that he flunked out of school. He has days of self-reflection and thinking while wandering the streets‚ going to countless bars‚ and meeting up with people from his past. He remembers
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield Holden Caufield was a high school student at a boy’s academy by the name of Pency Prep. He feels as though he had fought the world and lost‚ everyone is against him and that little can bring him joy. He had lost his innocence‚ and saw himself as a "catcher in the rye"‚ trying to save children from his fate. Holden is quite the eccentric individual. I say this because of the incident with Sally Hayes where he proclaims his love for her and how they should
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Holden’s language reflects the bitter‚ angry‚ and cynical aspects of his personality. Holden’s constant use of profanity and obsession with certain words such as: no kidding‚ madman‚ and crazy reinforces that he is a person that is not mentally health yand justifies his feelings about the phoniness of the world. His use of profanity is very strong. He refers to Stradlater as a “dirty stupid sonuvabitch of a moron.” He also tells Maurice that he’s a “goddam dirty moron.” These outbursts are reflective
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"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie 1. "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -- Bruce Barton 2. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple‚ really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure
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“When one door of happiness closes‚ another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller Body: As we have known‚ most people are too attached to the past‚ to what they are familiar with. Therefore‚ they will miss opportunities that stand right in front of them. Doors may close‚ but there are always other unlimited numbers of doors – new opportunities to get new happiness. Alexander Graham Bell also used to say that:
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Golden country “Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place. In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. There were no telescreens‚ of course‚ but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides‚ it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention” An old‚ close-bitten pasture‚ with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ~G.K. Chesterton There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. ~Josh Billings The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life‚ provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler‚ The
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Sanrda Interesting‚ about a woman who is into and manipulates younger males. You Refers to man as a beast‚ how he is kind of untaken care of yet jizzes a lot The 6 foot godess Talks about awesome sex with a 6 foot female and how she lives in texas I’ve seen too many glazed-eyed bums sitting under a bridge drinking cheap wine Wants the chick to go down on him first Sexpot Funny one about a woman who is a slut but always comes back to the man. She thinks hes too jealous but
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(AGG) The book Under The Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples is a great book to show how one can be affected by loss‚ and how loss shapes someone for better or for worse. (BS-1) When Baba-Jan and Nur were kidnapped by the Taliban‚ Najmah became much more responsible‚ mature‚ and helpful around the house. (BS-2) When Najmah became a boy in the form of Shaheed‚ she learned to adapt to her surroundings and use what she had. (BS-3) After Najmah finally reunited with Nur‚ she became very determined
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