Neha Mathews Ms. Komar English 10B Period 5 Experiencing Grief According to psychiatrist Elisabeth Ross‚ there are four main stages of grief: denial‚ anger‚ depression and acceptance. Throughout‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ by J. Salinger‚ Holden experiences all five stages of grief. Holden is a teenage boy‚ who suffers from loss and loneliness. Holden vividly exhibits all of these different stages of grief. Holden tries to overcome his grief by going through the various stages of grief: denial‚ anger
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In the book I am reading The Catcher In The Rye a lot happen in the last few chapters. The first thing that happen was Holden meet up with his old acquaintance of his for a drink. He ended up getting drunk. He left the bar and walked to central park and while he was in the park he decided to finally go home and see his sister. He snuck into his house and went to his sister’s room and he woke her up. She was really excited to see him. After that Holden called one of his old teachers at one of his
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The Catcher in The Rye written by J. D. Salinger is about a troubled 16 year old kid‚ Holden Caulfield. Holden has been a troubled kid‚ flunking out of various private schools and throw every happiness away. Holden Caulfield has a lack of control in his life and actions. When Holden was 13‚ his younger brother‚ Allie‚ passed away. Holden was very overwhelmed with emotion‚ he then since hasn’t been the same. Holden lacks control and acts very impulsively. When he found out Allie died‚ he punched
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In The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden struggles to grow up. He is in a big city all by himself. The theme of growth is shown at the end of the novel by Holden maturing and going into adulthood. The first example that shows Holden is growing up is when he goes to Phoebe’s school. He notices vulgarity on the walls and it drives him crazy. Holden‚ then “rubbed it out.” This suggests that Holden is maturing because he doesn’t want Phoebe and the other children to see profanity on
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Her childish innocence brings joy to Holden since it serves as a stark contrast to his dreary and depressing worldview. He is interested in preserving innocence and keeping childhood last forever‚ as seen in his desire to be the “catcher in the rye” figure‚ “[catching] everybody if they start to go over the cliff…[coming] out from somewhere and [catching] them” (Salinger 173). When he meets up with Phoebe once
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and other people. When one lives in a state of fear‚ it can have debilitating consequences. It can lead to insecurity and in extreme cases‚ mental breakdowns. Fear plays an important roll in J.D. Salinger’s fictional coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye. Fear is demonstrated through the actions of protagonist Holden Caulfield‚ he is afraid of losing his innocence and wishes he could remain an innocent child. It seems as if its hard for him to face the responsibilities that come when people
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At certain points‚ lying isn’t always so bad. In the novel‚ Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ begins with a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield narrating a story about himself. The story consists of him being kicked out of school‚ nostalgia‚ dealing with phonies‚ and innocence. It also focuses on children’s innocence‚ as for the adults they’re mostly tainted throughout the book. Holden finds the little things about children cheers him up in way‚ as for adults who are mostly considered “phonies”
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The Catcher in the Rye Topic Tracking: Phonies Chapter 2 Phonies 1: Holden’s first mention of phonies is with Mr. Spencer. "Phony" is a word Holden uses to characterize insincere people and their language (like Spencer’s word "grand"). Phonies‚ like his fellow students‚ are more interested in playing a part or looking good than in doing or saying anything honest. Chapter 3 Phonies 2: Ossenburger is the first "phony" Holden goes into detail about. Everything we hear about him reveals hypocrisy
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The main character in Susanna Kaysen’s‚ "Girl‚ Interrupted" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s‚ "The Yellow Wallpaper" are similar in the fact that they both were suppressed by male dominants. Be it therapist or physicians who either aided in their mental deformities or created them. They are similar in the sense that they are both restricted to confinement and must endure life under the watchful eye of overseers. However similar their situations may be‚ their responses are different. In the stories
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phoniness changes Holden and he himself is forced into bad decisions because of it. When Holden is waiting for Sally in the lobby of New York ’s Biltmore Hotel‚ the place is filled with girls his age‚ and he ’s watching them. "[I]t was sort of depressing" (123)‚ thinking about what ’s going to happen to most of the girls he sees. They ’re all going to have conventional lives‚ he thinks‚ married to boring men. However‚ Holden later decides that life with a bore might not be so bad after all. At least
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