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    Rocky Savo 12/5/15 English Catcher in the Rye SHS Humpty Dumpty So I got a story of some not so great things that happened to me a while back and all. I might just share it unless you’re one of those goddamn phonies. Cause this story is full of em like the damn king’s men

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    Comparison and Contrast Essay: Catcher in the Rye and Stand by Me Themes in literary works are recurring‚ unifying subjects or ideas‚ motifs that allow us to understand more deeply the characters and their world. In The Catcher in the Rye and stand by Me‚ the major themes reflect the values and motivations of the characters. As its title indicates‚ the dominating theme of The Catcher in the Rye is the protection of innocence‚ especially of children. For most of the book‚ Holden sees this as a primary

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    In the novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield goes through some serious emotions as depression and confusion. J.D. Salinger uses the symbol of a carousel to suggest that innocene and life of a child can’t be held on forever and maturing is part of life. Salinger introduces the carousel at the end of the novel. In chapter 25‚ Holden has just left Mr.Antolini’s house going to the train station to sleep on a bench at the waiting area. He then goes trolling

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    The genders play a big role throughout the novel. Holden is a very dominant male and seems to treat women as if they are nothing more then pieces of meat. He does not seem to see woman equal to men and just see them as sexual objects that are determined to serve men. Of course he doesn’t say they are obligated to do so‚ but he expects them to be directly attracted to him without even considering his age. Women in this novel are morally invaluable and definitely are not considered equal to men. Also

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    The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is an overview of a young man facing life in a box. In this book you see him go through life trying to unscramble the missing pieces for himself. He twist and turn the boundaries of what it really means to live in a society. Making leaps with this book it is discovered what Holden goes through and how he feel towards the world. He indulges in the ideas of‚ for the search of social identity‚ the idea of “melting pot”‚ and what the American Dream really means

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    miserable until the time he accepted that kids can fall (Salinger‚ p.211). Moreover‚ he admits that he was phony himself as he had lied about his virginity status and that one has to learn in life. Poem relation to the novel Similarly‚ to the catcher in the rye‚ the poem speaks of losing innocence. It speaks of two youngsters that lose their virginity‚ hence changing from childhood to adulthood. Moreover‚ the poem seems to be concerned whether the public should know or the deed remains a secret and

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    the world. In an attempt to endure the vices that alter the blissful spirit‚ he feels the need to make things right by saving what little recognizable evidence of purity that the world has not already desecrated. All throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ author J.D. Salinger establishes Holden’s bizarre attraction toward particular places‚ objects‚ and experiences‚ past and present. The author concurrently sets out the subtle‚ tender concern that Holden has for the preservation of innocence

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    an insight of Holden’s views of the world‚ which tend to be both positive and negative. The genre of the novel is Bildungsroman‚1 which involves several situations that shape the character; and so in this novel‚ we read his attempts to finding his identity as he goes from his adolescent years to being an adult. However‚ he does not change a lot throughout the novel‚ so this is contradictory. ‘Contradiction’ 2 is the term used when two principles are inconsistent or are clashing.   At the beginning

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    When one pushes people away consistently‚ it is to protect themselves. In the Catcher in the Rye‚ J.D Salinger’s protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ creates reoccurring gestures of isolation throughout the novel. Holden’s behaviour clearly suggests the requirement of love and affection‚ however‚ fails to generate the opportunity to maintain a formulated conversation. During his childhood‚ Holden becomes emotionally scarred because the only person he likes‚ his brother Allie‚ dies. Which brings him to

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    into social work. To me however the transition makes perfect sense. My degree in English has taught me about a rage of behavioral health‚ through characters in different novels. I learned about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield. I’ve read a wide rage of novel involving

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