first displays hypocrisy when he met Earnest Morrow’s mother on the train on his way to New York. Also‚ when he speaks about Stradlater’s sexual advances and his own. Finally‚ excellent examples of Holden’s hypocritical actions are the several times he goes to the bars while in New York. Holden boarded a late train to New York where an attractive older woman chose to sit right next to him instead of any of the other seats in the cart. The woman noticed Holden had a Pencey Prep sticker on
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criticizes others of committing and because there are many things he does not understand. Holden’s deep emotional turmoil as he tries in vain to come to terms with his coming adulthood is evidence of the theme of how painful growing up is in The Catcher in the Rye. Self-protection through Isolation Holden‚ who is self-conscious of himself‚ afraid of those around him‚ and who does not understand the life around him‚ isolates himself on the pretense that he believes he is above everyone else around
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The story of J. D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ is a view into school student‚ Holden Caulfield’s life in the times leading up to his nervous breakdown. David Fincher’s The Social Network‚ is a recount showing the creation of Facebook‚ primarily from the view of Mark Zuckerberg. One of the personal dilemmas seen in both The Catcher in the Rye and The Social Network is loneliness. Salinger and Fincher explore loneliness using a number of techniques‚ including setting‚ costume‚ camera shots and
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Life Lessons through Holden Caulfield In “The Catcher in the Rye”‚ Salinger uses Holden Caulfield as a vessel to portray the loneliness created by the flaws and realities of the human psyche. Human beings are not born “socialized”. The process of socialization and the ability to interact positively with others can be a long and perilous journey. Loneliness is a common theme of human existence. The alienation can be created via multiple pathways such as by lacking a sense of self‚ lacking support
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is holding him down to the point where he’s judgemental about anyone he meets. Even though he usually keeps all the negative comments to himself he sometimes gets to his climax where he lets everything out. He is 16 year old and he’s already very moody and has a bad perspective of the world. However‚ he becomes very vulnerable when it comes to his little sister Phoebe where he changes his attitude towards her and shows love and compassion. According to the novel The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
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out of every school he has been to‚ he faces adult life and spends a couple days in new york city‚ where bustling crowds and new faces trigger different feelings in him‚ especially loneliness‚ anger‚ and‚ strangely enough‚ sexual identity. The catcher in the rye gives us reason to believe that an adolescent in the 20th century deals with the same type of stuff a teenager in the present day might have to. There are quite a few times when he gets in a situation that he doesn’t know how to deal with‚ like
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Mburke Mr. Sherman English III - Period 2 1/8/2013 An Analytical Biography of The Catcher in the Rye Jonathan Baumbach‚ “The Saint as a Young Man: A reappraisal of The Catcher in the Rye‚” in Modern Language Quarterly‚ Vol. 35‚ No. 4‚ December‚ 1964‚ pp. 461-72 Critic Jonathan Baumbach explores the significance of innocence in J.D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. He claims that the novel is not only about innocence‚ but actively for innocence-as if retaining one’s childness were an
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travel both / And be one traveler‚ long I stood.” This recurring motif of being “stuck” between two “roads” can be found again and again‚ both within society itself and within works of literature such as J.D. Salinger’s coming-of-age novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger uses the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ to explore the process of self-discovery‚ ultimately demonstrating how society oppresses the non-conforming individual. Caulfield‚ “be one traveler‚” attempts to find out what it means to be
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HOLDEN’S INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER CHARACTERS The catcher in the rye‚ by J.D Salinger‚ tells the story of Holden Caulfield and all the things he do when he gets out of Pencey School because of failing five subjects. When the story begins‚ it starts while Holden is still at Pencey. By being still in there‚ the story stars to tell about Holden’s interactions with some friends of him and how he feels with every one of them. Some of them he gets in conversation with but with others he just describes
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Abhilasha Thapa The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger BOOK REVIEW The Catcher in the Rye is an exhilarating and gripping work of fiction subject to a lot of controversy. Published in 1951‚ The Catcher in the Rye is a first person narrative and its genre is Bildungsroman: a novel relating to personal development or spiritual bond. The book was written by Jerome David Salinger who was born in a wealthy family and spent his early life being transferred between various preparatory schools. He
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