Throughout several works‚ authors tend to focus on aspects such as gender‚ social glass‚ and race. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is not‚ at first glance‚ a book that discusses gender in depth; however‚ through Holden’s thoughts and discussions with other individuals the reader is able to experience different views that people might have about men and women. Overall‚ gender is a key that defines which conduct and appearances are anticipated by a man or a woman. Holden fears the adult world
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“Under the Bridge” – Red Hot Chili Peppers Analysis In this song‚ the lead singer‚ Anthony Kiedis‚ is describing how after a drug addiction he moved to a different city to start a new life. This relates to Holden in Catcher in the Rye because after he was kicked out of school he had a hard decision to make. He either could go to his home before his parents knew about the expulsion‚ or he could run away to New York. Anthony and Holden both choose to go to the city. Also in the song and the book‚
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agreeing to write Stradlater’s English composition for him in Chapter 4‚ even though Stradlater is out with Jane Gallagher‚ a girl Holden seems to care for very deeply. The pressure of adolescent sexuality—an important theme throughout The Catcher in the Rye—makes itself felt here for the first time: Holden’s greatest worry is that Stradlater will make sexual advances toward Jane. Holden’s interactions also reveal how lonely he is. He describes Ackley as isolated and ostracized‚ but it’s easy to
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Angela Rodriguez Ms. Toland APLAC per. 2 December 6‚ 2012 Catch Her in the Woods Fairytale Boy! This crumby forest filled with little girls in goddam red hoods. Who wears a red hood in the forest? No one‚ that’s who. I’m the wolf in this forest. No one ever comes through here except for some wild dogs or squirrels. Those squirrels just kill me! They jump at the slightest movement. I sometimes chase like I’m gonna eat them or something—to get a kick out of it. Not that I’d have done
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Most important thing in life-Childhood Don’t you just love little kids. They do some of the dumbest things but‚they are so cute doing it.. My cousin once ate a dime but‚ I still laughed. At the age Allie died He still didn’t get to see the world. He was so innocent. It’s how Holden judges the world and how he acts in it. Helps him help who actually needs it. Ali is the most important character in the book. He sets up Holden’s thoughts of childhood. It’s how he looks at the world. Holden sees youth
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Throughout the book The Catcher In The Rye‚ Holden Caulfield faces many struggles due to the fact that he does not like dedicating himself to certain ideas or people. In the book Holden finds it extremely difficult to devote himself to other people and is constantly finding reasons to push people away. Holden even calls almost all the other characters in the book “phonies” because he wants to find reasons not to care about other people due to the fact he is afraid of losing people he cares about
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Holden notices two nuns with cheap looking suitcases. He immediately judges them based on the appearance of their suitcases.Holden says that he doesn’t like cheap suitcases because they do not look as nice. He is not just talking about suitcases‚ he means people who are in different economic positions than his. This shows how Holden‚ who grew up going to private schools where almost all the boys were from rich families‚ wasn’t used to being around someone who was from a lower class or someone who
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The Catcher in the Rye Often times‚ books become banned in the classroom because of the controversial content that it contains. Once a book is banned‚ it becomes removed from the shelves of libraries‚ book stores‚ and classrooms. In some cases‚ banned books have been burned or refused publication. There are several reasons why books are banned‚ but books are most frequently banned because of the prejudiced opinions about religion‚ sexual orientation‚ and race. In school‚ children
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In the novel‚ Catcher in the Rye adolescence is shown throughout the novel in the character Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is stuck in a grey area where he isn’t so much a child anymore but he’s also wouldn’t be classified as an adult. There are many ideas shown throughout this novel that distinguish and represent adolescence and throughout the novel Holden’s voice does work as an adolescent one. But a theme that sticks out the most to me in the novel is sexuality. Specific sexuality traits could
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Todd would stay miserable and keep his parents happy and keep up his imagine whereas Holden would rather run away and keep being sent to new schools making his parents look bad and be real instead of being a "phony" as Holden would say. In the catcher in the rye Holden doesn’t talk much about his parents but you can imagine that they are kind people after going through the loss of loosing a child. That after they lost that child it might have become too painful to keep Holden around which is why they
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