an extreme that nearly every comment he places on things and people is tainted with a disparaging‚ accusatory tone. For example‚ he despises the ads of Pencey Prep featuring horse-riding young men as a sales gimmick; he criticizes people who are crazy about cars and those taxi and bus drivers who yell at passengers to get out at the rear door; he hates people sticking together; he cannot stand the sight in which people hurry into their cars when it rains in the cemetery; he claims he’d rather be
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Holden Caufield‚ the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s iconic coming of age novel‚ cycles through various emotional states towards people‚ places‚ items‚ and events throughout the story. However‚ most of his feelings can be categorized under the umbrellas of either contentment or dissatisfaction. For most of the novel‚ he exists in a state of deep depression that overshadows him and skews his view of many events. Holden’s emotions are very contradictory as well; he simultaneously abhors and desperately
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a panic. All of the sudden‚ Johnney Crazy and James ran in Hannah’s closet with a solution. “There is a Zips Foodstore around the corner.” said James. So they all went to Zips and went to the chip aisle. They saw that the bags of chips were less expensive at target‚ and you get more. So they decided to run back to target to get the big bag of cheetos and compare the bags of chips. They are all on there way to target when all of the sudden Johnney Crazy has to go to
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In the popular novel The Catcher In The Rye‚ the main protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield is introduced as angsty‚ judgemental‚ and politically incorrect. He is constantly making comments and critiquing individual people‚ as well as society as a whole. As a student at Pencey Prep‚ a school well known for its outstanding reputation for academic achievement‚ this type of attitude is not accepted‚ and as a result‚ Holden is ostracized by his peers regularly. While it is not directly stated what causes this
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Proctor‚ a married man‚ was true love and so did a great many atrocities for that so called "love" even though in truth it was just a affair. This girl is the main villain of this story and thus is characterized as such : crazy‚ obsessed‚ and truly a manipulative girl. "Why is she crazy?"you might ask. Abbie was single handedly a 17 year old girl that was the cause of many deaths in this witch hunting story set in Salem. She was a girl that wanted her way and so foolishly thought that by taking down
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Shannon LeBlanc Mr. P. Murray Phoniness: Its Effect on Holden Caulfield’s Character and his View on Society December 3‚ 2012 Phoniness: Its effect on Holden Caulfield’s character and his view on society There comes a time in life when one believes that they are surrounded by nothing but fallaciousness and deception. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield‚ a 16-year-old boy‚ travels to New York to try to
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Rachel Perkin demonstrate us that Eddie Mabo is a hero . He commit himself fully to fight tirelessly for aboriginal rights of land. In the process ‚ Eddie Mabo get much support by his wife‚ his lawyers‚ his friends. These people sacrifice something and bear pressure for supporting Eddie Mabo. So these people also are heroes. Meanwhile ‚ Australia government also is anti-hero‚ the government admit the mistake and reconcile with aboriginals and apology. Nera . Eddie Mabo’s wife. As a wife she bring
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Holden feels detached and has no one to listen to him. Salinger starts off the novel with Holden buying a red hunting hat. This hat has a big peak and funny looking earlaps. Holden doesn’t wear the hat in front of people because he thinks he looks crazy in it‚ but he wears it when he is alone because it comforts him. The red hunting hat symbolizes Holden’s feelings of loneliness and alienation. Holden tries to fit into society but fails miserably. He is the manager of the fencing team at Pencey prep
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The Catcher in the Rye By: JD Salinger Why The Catcher in the Rye Should Not be Banned By: Ryan Gash By: Ryan Gash There are people who would like to see The Catcher in the Rye banned from our schools because it contains disturbing issues. In my opinion they are overlooking the message that J.D. Salinger was trying to communicate. In this novel‚ the characters exhibit a wide scope of behaviors from honorable to ignominious. The novel presents issues such as respect for religion‚ or
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his sadness is triggered by little events or situations which shouldn’t have affected him at all. For example‚ when he explains his feelings about the phony Elkton Hills headmaster talking with his parents‚ he says‚ “It makes me so depressed I go crazy” (Salinger 14). His feelings about the headmaster are interesting‚ because it shows that he overreacts and has depressive thoughts for little‚ unreasonable things which most teenagers at his age typically don’t experience. Also‚ Holden even considers
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