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    Good Will Hunting is about story of a prodigy genius named Will Hunting who is discovered when Professor Lambeau releases a difficult math for his class to solve. When he figures out that Will Hunting solved the problem‚ Professor Lambeau takes Will under his wing and prevents him from going to jail. In exchange‚ Will is under the supervision of Professor Lambeau while being forced into therapy. Will is a fool who wastes his potential. Sean Maguire‚ a therapist‚ tries to help Will but he’s facing

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    Good Will Hunting Movie Analysis The movie Good Will Hunting is about Will Hunting‚ a janitor with an Irish background and a pure gift for math. He is the janitor at the notorious college MIT and often cleans near a prominent math/chemistry professor’s classroom. This professor assigns his class a task that would involve solving a very difficult math problem and the reward would be an automatic A in the class and the ability to work with the professor on research. Will‚ having an excellent background

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    Jane’s mother‚ he’s afraid Sally’s mom will pick up at her house‚ and he "doesn’t like" Carl Luce. Holden steps out of the phone booth after twenty minutes‚ having not called anyone. This is the story of his life. Or at least the story of The Catcher in the Rye. When Holden does end up interacting with people‚ he usually gets the short end of the stick. He invites Ackley along to the movies‚ but Ackley won’t return the favor by letting Holden sleep in his roommate’s bed. He writes Stradlater’s composition

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    the great storytellers but never believed I could be more than a consumer. For my senior project I will be creating a children’s story book. I have always loved reading children’s books‚ even now in my teenage years. Don’t get me wrong‚ I like Catcher In The Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird as much as the next person‚ but there’s something about a kids book that you just can’t get enough of. In a children’s book‚ you get to explore the whimsical made up worlds and characters that make you feel young again

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    In Catcher in the Rye‚ J.D Salinger over takes the voice of a 16 year old cynical boy Holden Caulfield who was recently expelled from his fourth school. Though Holden is the narrator and protagonist of the story Salinger’s main focus is not on Holden but on the reality of adulthood. Holden is constantly faced with the thought that it is his fate to control the purity of the youth. Having suffered a traumatic loss of a sibling at a young age‚ Holden develops a pessimistic view on the world and the

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    The Catcher in the Rye‚ a Medley of Failure All humans make mistakes‚ unfortunately‚ Holden Caulfield is notorious for committing one too many. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye appears to be a long string of consecutive failures for the protagonist. The novel describes his attempt to reconcile with these failures and find a path that suits his qualities and desires. However Holden can not find a way to succeed and even Mr. Antolini says‚ “This fall I think you’re riding for – it’s a special

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    Abstract This paper will discuss this student’s perception‚ study and analysis of the character Will Hunting‚ in the movie Good Will Hunting. (Affleck and Damon‚ 1997) It will share the results and conclusions about the character of Will Hunting reached by this author‚ citing the methods and theories used to reach said results and conclusions. The report will provide a brief overview of the character‚ a cultural description of the character‚ discuss the character’s personality development from

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    afternoon and go for walk‚ will you cut out this crazy stuff?" She wouldn’t answer me‚ so I said it over again. "If I let you skip school this afternoon and go for a little walk‚ will you cut out the crazy stuff? Will you go back to school tomorrow like a good girl?" "I may and I may not‚" she said. Then she ran right the hell across the street‚ without even looking to see if any cars were coming. She’s a madman sometimes. I didn’t follow her‚ though. I knew she’d follow me‚ so I started walking downtown

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    In the fictional book “The catcher in the Rye” by Jd Salinger Holden is immature. Although he is struggling to come to terms with the death of his brother Holden is not so different from the rest of the teenagers in the world. He dos things all teenagers do‚ or at least most of them. Like wanting sex‚ coursing‚ hating a lot of things‚ and hating their parents. In this essay I will prove my thesis statement and make it look awesome. A topic of my evidence would be the decisions he makes through

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    The Catcher and the Rye: Tragedy or Comedy? In the novel The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ I viewed the novel as a tragedy. This novel is based on a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield who has not decided what he wants to pursue in life. From the beginning of the novel you get an assumption of what state of mind Holden is in. He began saying in the text “ IF YOU REALLY want to hear about is‚ the first thing you’ll proberly want to know is where I was born‚ and what my lousy

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