Holden Caulfield Diagnosis Holden Caulfield is seventeen year old caucasian male from New York City who recently has flunked out of another private boarding school then ran away and spent a weekend alone in the New York City drinking heavily. Caulfield describes himself during this week as being fed up and done with all people. From a rational perspective‚ nothing Caulfield did or thought during this week were the actions of a lucid person. Because of Caulfield’s impulsive scattered thinking he
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2013 To Mature or Not to Mature? Maturity plays a key role in love‚ especially when it comes to young love. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare‚ two characters Romeo and Juliet‚ exhibit the importance of being mature‚ and the reason why maturity influences people’s actions and emotions. Sometimes maturity can be seen through Juliet‚ and other times it is the exact opposite and can be seen through Romeo. Firstly‚ Juliet expresses her maturity by respecting her elders and accepting
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change in the world‚ In JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield‚ trying to change his life through series of emotional events‚ but fail to became a successful man as stay with his characteristics from the beginning of the novel. Novel itself uses Holden as an example of how growing up is a difficult situation. Many people in real life after life experience became more of an successful person then they are. In the novel‚ Holden been through series of events about growing up as an adult
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the Rye Chapter 23-24 1. Holden breaks into tears after his confrontation with Sunny and Maurice in chapter 14. Another time when Holden is crying is when he leaves Pencey. In chapter 7 pages 52 Holden says “I was sort of crying. I don’t know why”. The only real connection I can make about the two evens in which Holden cries is the loss of something. In this case‚ it was not his loss‚ it was Phoebe’s. Phoebe gave him the Christmas money that she was saving. Holden saw it as generosity‚ but I think
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |a. What is the bond’s yield to maturity? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Basic Input Data: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Years to maturity: |10 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Periods per year: |2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Periods to maturity: |20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Coupon rate: |12% | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Par value: | |$1‚000 | | | | | | | | | |
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Holden is a teenager who refuses to grow up because he is afraid of gaining the responsibilities that come with it. So‚ Holden struggles hard to stay childish. For example‚ he does not want to take responsibility to communicate with others that may want to help him. He refuses to go home and confront his parents and face the consequences. Along with this‚ he also pulls the childish silent treatment toward his parents; because that is the only knife he has to hurt them:” She would not be the ones
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someone in between adulthood and childhood. The catcher in the rye‚ is sort of like Peter Pan‚ helping children and keeping them safe from falling off the cliff of innocence into adulthood. Holden loves the simple‚ straightforward and honest world of children‚ and he hates the adult world of phonies and perverts. Holden wants to be the catcher because he knows he would be a very good catcher. He really wants to see inner goodness in almost everyone‚ even if they are rich kids in his boarding school‚ or
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Holden vs. Charlie During your life you go through many phases. One phase is high school. High school can be the best thing you ever been through or one of the worst times of your life. Holden Caulfield and Charlie had many problems through high school but most of their actions and personality were the same. Even though Holden and Charlie were two different types of people‚ they had the same of amount of similarities as differences. One of their differences between Holden and Charlie was their
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The Problem Inner Child in Holden Caulfield 1. Introduction 1.1 J.D. Salinger and His Works J.D. Salinger is a contemporary American novelist who rose to prominence with the publication of his sole full-length novel The Catcher in the Rye in 1951. Born in New York City in 1919‚ Salinger spent his youth as an introverted boy. At the age of 13 he enrolled in a decent prep school in Manhattan but was expelled from it one year later due to his poor academic performance. At age 15 he continued
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