Thousands of little kids and nobody’s around- nobody big‚ I mean- except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t know where they’re going.”(173‚ Salinger) This quote shows how Holden is facing problems becoming an adult himself so he wants to protect children from becoming adults. The rye field symbolizes innocence
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It is said that high school is either the best time of a person’s life or the worst. Holden Caulfield‚ the main character of J.D. Salinger’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ epitomizes this as readers watch him struggle going through the pains of adolescence. Growing up in the 1950’s Holden is a teenager who appears to have it all. He is very smart‚ wealthy‚ and has a loving family. When looking at it closer‚ one can see that Holden’s appreciation of childhood innocence‚ and his trust issues‚ make
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Holden is talking to Phoebe and he explains how he wants to be The catcher in the rye. “Anyway‚ i keep picturing all these little kids playing...I know it’s crazy.”(173). Holden tells Phoebe he wants to be the person who catches little kids when they can’t see where they are going and fall off the rye field. He means he wants to be the one who helps kids without guidance. Holden sees childhood like running through
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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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He " rescues" a little girl from a crazy‚ dirty old man to try to reunite her with her mother only to have her die.Then he moves to Jamaica with his new best friend/ mentor‚ a rastafarian named I- Man. He meets his real dad there only to find he is some weird drug addict who really isn’t
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Can Holden be the Catcher in the rye? What is J.D Salinger trying to convey with his novel about a angsty teenage boy? Is the novel attempting to convey that the intelligent are alienated for their intelligence or that the intelligent alienate themselves‚ because they’re own self-awareness and understanding of others in their society is too much to handle? The standards and conventions of a society are major factors in the development of a person’s psychological and emotional being. Through our
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Holden’s Mad World People all around the world have exposed profound insights by divergent forms of expressive illustrations. Songs are forms of artistic expression in order to deliver an emotional connection to the life of the receiver. Throughout the novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ the reader is able to decipher the bottled emotions of Holden Caulfield and his perpetual battle with depression. During research‚ an abundance of songs accommodated his distress frequently interpreted in his sojourns
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Preserving Childhood Innocence Books are banned due to explicit content proposed to certain audiences. This is done to protect the readers‚ mostly pertaining to children. A wise man name Salman Rushdie once said “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend‚ it ceases to exist.” This explains any piece of literature will always offend someone and writers should not live in the fear to inflict someone’s penniless tender feelings which is prominent in the The Catcher and the
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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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