around on the bench for quite a while.” Referencing his hunting hat‚ he tries to say it provided protection from the rain‚ when contrarily‚ he was getting soaked just the same. Once he was “near bawling”‚ it is clear why this is the supposed climax of Catcher. Expressing emotion and even crying in a place with a crowd‚ shows the weakness and sensitivity that Holden does not usually allow himself to feel or express. The climax of this story is the expressing of emotions he does not want to express. The
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After looking at quite a few songs and their lyrics‚ I found that the song “Yesterday” by the Beatles represented well a few of Holden’s situations on The Catcher in the Rye. The song expresses the emotions Holden feels for Jane. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden remembers the relationship he once had with Jane and how it was so simple‚ and how happiness came so easily when he was with her. Like on page 79 of the novel‚ Holden says‚ "You never even worried with Jane... All you knew was‚ you were
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The Catcher in the Rye Summary Holden Caulfield‚ the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye‚ begins with an authoritative statement that he does not intend the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care‚ this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas. This story forms the basis for his narrative. At the beginning of his story‚ Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School‚ irresponsible and immature. Having been expelled for failing four out of his five classes‚ Holden goes
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although some entirely more important than others. The time period is somewhere in the later 1940’s‚ since it is post World War Two era‚ and as a result Holden occasionally ponders the war and its effect on his brother. The beginning of The Catcher In The Rye involves Holden’s Pencey Prep School‚ where he is deciphering his choices and planning his own choice of absence. The school itself is rumoured to be based loosely on J.D Salinger’s alma mater Valley Forge Military Academy.The preparatory school
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The Analysis of the text “Escape” by S.Maugham. Somerset Maugham was born on 25th of April‚ 1874 and died on 16th of December in 1965. He was an English playwright‚ novelist and short story writer. Somerset Maugham has written 24 plays‚ 19 novels and a large number of short stories. In 1897 appeared his first novel “Liza of Lambeth” which drew on his experience of attending women in childbirth. Maugham’s breakthrough novel was the semi-autobiographical “Of Human Bondage”‚ which is usually considered
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PRS1023/502/3/2013 Tutorial Letter 502/3/2013 Health in Early Childhood Education: A PRS1023 Department of Teacher Education Semester 1 and 2 This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. Bar code PRS1023/502 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 COURSE OVERVIEW 2 STUDY UNIT 4: NUTRITION 3 STUDY UNIT 5: COMMON HEALTH PROBLEMS 4 STUDY UNIT 6: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER - THE HEALTH POLICY 5 CONCLUSION 6 LIST OF SOURCES LAYOUT OF
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Everybody feels depressed at some time or another in his or her lives. However‚ it becomes a problem when depression is so much a part of a person’s life that he or she can no longer experience happiness. In Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye‚ the author develops the theme of Holden’s depression because it fully portrays Holden’s outlook on the ‘real’ world and life itself. The cause of Holden’s depression can be seen as his lack of personal motivation‚ his inability to self-reflect and his stubbornness
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Taylor Moore November 12‚ 2012 English period 7 “The Catcher and the Rye” Essay on Themes In J.D. Salinger’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ the theme of self-perceived outsiders alienating themselves as a form of protection is expressed by the protagonist‚ Holden. While Holden is conversing with Stradlater about his date with Jane Gallagher‚ a childhood friend of Holden‚ Stradlater suggests that Holden go to see her before the date. However‚ Holden refuses claiming that he is “not in the mood”
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Holden’s love for children first shows itself in his description of his young sister‚ Phoebe. All of his thoughts up to those of his sister are dark and unsettling. Phoebe’s description is so outrightly loving that the reader is shown an entirely new side to Holden‚ one that shows he is not entirely incapable of happiness. Phoebe’s role as a minor character in the novel is to keep Holden anchored to reality; to prevent him from ruining his life completely and losing all hope in his future. It is
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2011 You know that one person in your group of friends that just isn’t “all right” in the head? That you’re always kind of worried about in the back of your head? Well that would describe Holden Caulfield perfectly. J.D. Salinger’s Cather in the Rye is all about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield in a mental hospital recalling a crazy weekend he had the previous year. It goes everywhere from prostitutes to illegal drinking. In the novel Holden exemplifies a borderline personality order with his
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