Innocence in The Catcher in the Rye Not too many people in this world can be labeled as truly innocent. Nowadays‚ there is always something wrong with people. Some try to keep their innocence; however‚ innocence cannot be kept. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield does not want to realize that everyone has to grow up. J.D. Salinger writes a beautiful novel by using several literary and rhetorical devices to convey the theme of innocence. For example‚ Holden wants to stay young and never grow
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I am merely a pawn‚ a pawn in a game that has spiralled out of control‚ a game of life and death. My innocence surrendered to the ceaseless events‚ my sleep masked with tortured dreams like the shadows that cover the night sky. With the blanket of darkness‚ my tongue mutters for itself when I say the guilt of a man’s blood is leached within the creases of
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Purity and Innocence –Comparing Tess Durbeyfield with May Welland Tess Durbeyfield‚ the innocent and exceptionally gifted peasant girl of decayed aristocratic stock‚ is described as “A Pure Woman” by Thomas Hardy in the novel’s subtitle; May Welland‚ a beautiful girl immersed within the New York society upbringing‚ in Newland Archer’ eyes‚ is innocent‚ childlike and carefree. But as the two plots thickened‚ Tess is regarded as impure by everyone in the novel and we realize that May is more
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Guilt & Innocence in _The Scarlet Letter_ Knowledge and sin connect in the Judeo-Christian tradition in the story of Adam and Eve. Sin becomes the outcome in the story of Adam and Eve when they get thrown out of the Garden of Eden. After their banishment from the Garden of Eden‚ Adam and Eve must work and bear children. Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale experience similar situations as Adam and Eve in the novel _The Scarlet Letter_ written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. For Hester‚ the scarlet letter
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Innocence of Liesel Meminger Innocence is something that all of us know and relish. It is something sweet and peaceful that we all deem precious. In the novel ‘The Book Thief’‚ one little girl possesses this trait‚ in a very surprisingly place. In the heart of Nazi Germany‚ Liesel Meminger’s innocence is easily distinguished. In the story‚ Liesel Meminger is forced to adapt to a new family and environment due to her past traumatic experiences. Throughout part one of the book‚ Liesel shows her
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Ophelia: Better Off in a Nunnery Hana Travers-Smith Various characters in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet exhibit aspects of an “outsider”. The obvious choices being Claudius and Hamlet. Claudius appears to be freed from moral restrictions‚ while Hamlet represents the stereotypical isolated intellectual. However‚ both of them pale in comparison to the true outsider in the play: Ophelia. Both Claudius and Hamlet are too respected and entangled in the lives of others to be considered the ultimate estranged
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and the snowman helped to develop the underlying idea of social and racial prejudice in the text. This idea showed how prejudice can become ingrained within a community and how that can affect innocent people subsequently presenting the idea of innocence. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of how prejudice‚ when ingrained within a person‚ can cloud and impair their way of thinking. This novel is set in the mid 1930’s in the fictional town of Maycomb. This was an era where racial prejudice
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help it.” the main character in this book “The outsiders‚” Ponyboy Curtis has the innocence and immaturity of a young fourteen-year-old. but as we continue to read we soon see when he reaches the point of no longer being “gold” or is forced to mature causing him to lose his innocence. We quickly learn that Ponyboy wants to understand why the Socs and Greasers fight‚ why his brother is overworked‚ but yet they have so little money. We first begin to imagine Ponyboy’s innocence in chapter one when
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Zharmaine Aguirre Psy21 Psychosexual Character Analysis There are five Psychosexual Character Types‚ namely: Oral character. Anal character‚ Phallic character‚ Latency character and Genital character. But among those five‚ I developed the Anal character. This is my personality. At the age of three I remember how I hide at the back of the door so nobody would notice that I’m trying to hold my feces from coming out. I don’t know why I love doing it. All I know is that although
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Caliban is a naturally innocent and pure character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Throughout the play Caliban is portrayed as a primitive beast with a vile mind‚ although he wasn’t originally that way. Caliban initially had no evil influence on him other than the way nature made him. Prospero’s later influence on the creature was the cause of his negative actions which isn’t the fault of Caliban himself. Caliban‚ although seen as a monster‚ is truly an innocent creature with good intentions until
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