regards to the main protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ not accepting the unconditional love given to him by a series of characters throughout the novel. For the information the book provides‚ Holden is a sensitive teenager that has many psychological and social problems. Could he have PTSD? Sure he can‚ although if that were the case‚ his PTSD would-of only been worse as the reader digs deeper into the material. There were many events that gave us evidence to conclude that Holden could have had PTSD. At the
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Impressions of Renaissance Art Art has gone through many phases throughout history. As times have changed‚ so have the manner and style of artists and their art. During the Middle Ages‚ Europe suffered a widespread horrific disease called the Black Death which killed one-fourth to one-third of the population. After the Middle Ages came a period of change called the Renaissance‚ which means the "rebirth"‚ came to life in Florence and eventually spread throughout the rest of Europe. The Renaissance
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impressionism is exemplified by the author Steven Crane through the novel‚ The Red Badge of Courage. In reference terms‚ impressionism means: "a literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than re-creation of objective reality" (dictionary.com). In the essay‚ Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage‚ James Nagel suggests a focus on impressionism while reading the novel. An understanding of many organic features of impressionism
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The relationship between the two brothers in both opening numbers “Bounce” and “Waste” can be characterized as one with brotherly love and sympathy for each other’s past transgressions. In both opening numbers Addison and Wilson are overjoyed to see one another after years of separation. This suggests that despite the various criminal activities that Wilson manipulates Addison into‚ Addison’s love for his brother is enough to forgive Wilson for past actions. In these past actions involved Wilson
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got the job but found out it was actually a job to embalm the dead people. Somehow he accepted it with hesitation and kept it a secret to his wife. There he began his journey of an embalmer‚ it was difficult and disgust at the very beginning‚ the first corpse he met turned out to be unbearable. However‚ as he finished several assignments and witnessed the gratitude of those left behind‚ he fell in love with his job‚ and refused to quit when his wife found out and begged him to give up such kind
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Holden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old boy who has to deal with all of the toils of growing up‚ while dealing with the loss of his younger brother and an unstable home. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is a story about a boy who alienates himself from people he loves and knows as a form of protection from being hurt. The main reason that Holden acts this way is because he is still dealing with the loss of his brother‚ Allie. “I was only thirteen‚ and they were going to have my psychoanalyzed
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Impact after Death By caleb anderson I think Allie influenced Holden the most in the novel. Allie‚ Holden’s younger brother‚ died of Leukemia when Holden was thirteen. Holden feels guilty after the death and blames himself for what happened‚ although there was nothing he or anyone else could do to prevent it. Allie’s death was one of the most traumatic experiences of Holden’s life and it impacted him in a negative way. Holden Caulfield‚ like every teenager‚ deals with adolescent struggles but few
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Is Holden A Good Friend? Holden Caulfield is the main character in the novel‚ “The Catcher In The Rye.” He lies often‚ judges everyone and thinks they are all phony. He has no direction and is always very negative on everything. There are many reasons I would not be able to be friends with Holden Caufield. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine‚ even‚ and somebody asks where I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.”(Salinger
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SALLINGER A PHROPET OR A PHONY? Holden Caulfield has terrible habit of calling everyone a phony and he himself often behaves like a prophet or a saint‚ pointing out people flaws or as he sees it the phoniness in the world around him. Holden is not nearly as perfect as he pretends/wants to be. Many times throughout the novel he displays his phoniness and hypocrisy. Holden struggles with finding who he wants to be and searching for companionship. He has
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possible that despite Holden’s statement in the first line of Chapter 3‚ “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life‚” the reader believes nearly every thing he says? He said that it is because he believes what he said‚ he wasn’t tries to praise someone or something‚ it is the things what he believes. 2. Holden’s understandings are false much of the time‚ but the basic ideas are correct .find an example of this in chapter 3. Holden opens Chapter Three with this declaration. He gives
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