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    sells around 250‚000 copies each year. The author‚ J.D.Salinger‚ was born in New York and was a recluse from the army. After the success of the novel‚ J.D. Salinger cut himself off from society‚ and idea expressed many times by the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ in the novel. The book is set in 1950s America which for many was a time of prosperity and optimism because of the newly ended war. However‚ there were many cracks in the 1950s beginning to show. There was a huge baby boom‚ and rising consumerism

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    (189). In the novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield fails himself and others by unsuccessfully adapting to the nature of a school setting. Holden consistently fails to harness his potential and strive in academia. He is unable to engage in social practices within his school and finally‚ he struggles to develop into a mature and responsible student. Holden is unsuccessful in satisfying the academic expectations set by his family and teachers.

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    exactly what happened to Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Salinger uses many different symbols throughout the book to show Holden’s maturation and thoughts as he goes through a very stressful time in his life. Holden is scared for his future. He is stuck on the bridge between being an adult and a child and does not know where he wants to go. He doesn’t know what he wants to do or be in the future. Throughout the book‚ Holden makes many references

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    brother who died in 1946 of leukemia. He was two years younger than Holden. Holden describes him as‚ “a nice red head boy”. Holden said that many times teachers would send his parents letter saying how good of a student Allie was. Allie had a baseball mitt he used to write poems on so when he was in the field and nothing was happening he could read them. Whenever Allie died Holden still held on to the glove. The story begins with Holden being kicked out of Pencey. His parents are not aware that he

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    The Catcher in the Rye/the Dead Poets Society The Catcher in the Rye/The Dead Poets Society Holden Caufield‚ narrator and main character in The Catcher in the Rye‚ is a young man coming of age‚ searching for who he is and what he wants to be in life. Holden wants to escape the conformity and others expectations. He came from a fairly wealthy family whose parents are estranged in a way. John Keating‚ a new English instructor played by Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society‚ uses bold teaching techniques

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    chose that we believe represents Holden is the ducks at Central park south. Holden repeatedly asks people where the ducks go because he likes the ducks staying where they are. Holden worries about the ducks at Central park south “But I didn’t see any ducks around . . . but I didn’t see a single duck. I thought maybe if they were any around‚ they might be asleep or something near the grass and all. That’s how I nearly fell in. but I couldn’t find any” (Salinger 154). Holden then asks the taxi cab driver

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    Studies‚ and work through the section on this novel in your Study Guide. Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in The Catcher in the Rye‚ is a typical adolescent and is experiencing the problems characteristic of this phase of life. One of his problems is that he is unsure of how to relate to girls. He is not even sure how he feels about them much of the time – in other words‚ he is ambivalent towards them. Introduction Holden Caulfield is honestly one of the most interesting and complex characters

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    a testament to his innocence and decent spirit that Holden would place the safety and well being of children as the goal of his lifetime"(3). Metaphorically speaking‚ Holden is catching children from falling of the cliff of childhood into the ominous gorge that is being an adult. Holden’s loneliness and inner turmoil relating to his maturing creates an admirably honesty and mature of character. Loneliness motivates the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ to break off communication of with society

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    being. A select few on the other hand are a combination of both‚ and in this category falls a boy named Holden Caulfield. His immaturity‚ self-denial‚ awful habits‚ and inability to move on from the past make him relatable to any teenager‚ or any former teenager. Holden is the main character in a famous novel by J.D. Salinger titled‚ “The Catcher in the Rye”. The baseline of the story is that Holden fails out of a private school and travels to New York

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    The Catcher in the Rye In 1981‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger was simultaneously the most frequently censored novel and the second-most frequently taught novel in American high schools (Andrychuk 6). The main protagonist of the novel is Holden Caulfield‚ a 16-year old boy who smokes like a chimney‚ swears like a sailor‚ and drinks to deal with his angst. He is also the narrator of his own story‚ telling the tale of the 48 hours he spent in New York City after getting expelled from his fourth

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