Pency Prep: "The Catcher in the Rye" opens with Holden Caulfield at Pency Prep‚ his high school‚ where he has just been kicked out for failing almost all of his classes. Holden‚ as a lost and frustrated teen‚ goes to his room for his last night before planning to run away from Pency Prep for some "alone time" before telling his parent he was kicked out of another school. In his room he interrogates his roommate‚ Stradlater‚ about one of Holden’s old friends‚ Jane. Stradlater just got back from a
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The Catcher in the Rye – Timeline Saturday Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from Pency Prep and is supposed to leave on Wednesday. He goes to see Mr Spencer to say goodbye‚ but shows irritation when Mr Spencer tries to remind him of his poor academic performance. Holden goes back to his dormitory. Back at his dormitory‚ Holden tries to read a book but is constantly interrupted by Ackley. He tries to deter him but Ackley doesn’t take the hint. Eventually‚ Stradlater arrives. Stradlater
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of the freedom of the individual in the constant pressures of society. In the play “Death of a Salesman” by‚ Arthur Miller‚ Willy Loman is a good example of this‚ as well as a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield in the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by‚ J.D Salinger. They are both men living in a controlling society‚ and feel it is too hard to keep up with all of the expectations. Holden is always looking at the world in a negative way‚ pointing out the negativity in everyone‚ and everything
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Quiz: The Catcher in the Rye (15 points) Name: _________________________________ Multiple Choice (1 point each) ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. Where does the title of the novel come from? a. a game that Holden and Allie would play b. a reference to Greek mythology c. a poem by Robert Burns being sung by a child d. the title of Holden’s favorite song 2. What is one of Holden’s least favorite words? a. indeed b. grand c. phony d. fabulous
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In Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden uses the word "phony" to define people who are insincere and to label people who grow up only to conform to society’s standards‚ even though they’re capable of much more in their life. Besides the nuns at the sandwich bar and Holden’s little sister and brother‚ almost everyone in society embodies Holden’s depiction of phony‚ except for most children. Children are exempt from Holden’s definition of phony because children do not care about society’s standards
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The Catch in the Catcher in the Rye… Literature can cause a variety of controversy in the world over the years there have been many different situations in which books have been banned and or challenged. The Great Gatsby‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ and Gone with the Wind all history changing books which has frequently been banned or challenged‚ this collection of raw American Literature have been attacked for numerous of reasons. Sexual content‚ profanity‚ and explicit scenes. All of these
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HOLDEN’S INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER CHARACTERS The catcher in the rye‚ by J.D Salinger‚ tells the story of Holden Caulfield and all the things he do when he gets out of Pencey School because of failing five subjects. When the story begins‚ it starts while Holden is still at Pencey. By being still in there‚ the story stars to tell about Holden’s interactions with some friends of him and how he feels with every one of them. Some of them he gets in conversation with but with others he just describes
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The Da Vinci Code‚ Great Gatsby‚ and The Catcher in the Rye each have many different themes but one they all have in common is letting go of the past. In each novel a character’s inability to let go of the past ends up being their ultimate downfall. Gatsby‚ Holden‚ and Sophie were all stuck on past events. Gatsby couldn’t let go of his love for Daisy‚ Holden couldn’t get over the loss of his younger brother and Sophie wouldn’t forgive her grandfather. In The Da Vinci Code‚ when Sophie was coming
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help them as adults. However‚ as they mature‚ they will also be exposed to the corrupt nature of adulthood. While increasingly becoming jaded and alienated from his sobering realization of corrupt adulthood‚ Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye identifies that the root of corruption in adulthood lies in adults’ growing awareness of others which causes them to behave according to socially constructed ideals driven by monetary and superficial values. While defining the
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confront challenges and due to their misconceptions of reality these challenges become complicated by external factors‚ which ultimately lead to tragic results. Willy‚ from the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ Holden‚ from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ and Macbeth‚ from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ live with false perceptions of life and struggle through life’s challenges. Willy struggles with the challenges of his life by lying‚ causing him to suffer because
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