Protagonist Holden Caulfield faces many events that make him feel that life is just a depressing way of living. Each opportunity Holden achieves he somehow finds a way to mess it up. In Holden’s perspective life seems really unfair to him. Ever since his little brother died‚ life turned upside down for him. Since the day Holden left school he went through many tough events that made him go back into the past. Holden does not want to grow up. Holden`s personality is very unique. In fact Holden`s personality
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The Road To Chlifa Thematic Exploration After reading the book written by Michele that is talking about Karim and Maha’s grow-up experience during the age of war‚ I think everyone who has read the book has different feeling about it. It’s a special story telling us about human nature‚ death‚ maturity‚ dream‚ challenge and love that we have gone through in everyone’s life journey. As far as I’m concerned‚ though I haven’t experienced such a long travel like they do
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teenagers for ten years. However‚ Holden Caulfield is different from any other patient I have ever had. Even though Holden and I have a pretty good relationship it still has taken more than a year for me to get him to open up and tell me anything about his life. Just recently he has opened up to me. Whenever we are in one of our sessions though‚ Holden seems lifeless and stares out the window. I have finally come to my conclusion on Holden and his depression. Holden suffers from severe depression
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Patient Analysis Report: Holden Caulfield‚ age 17‚ was brought to me‚ Dr. Joseph M. Guerrieri M.D. at Sutter Center for Psychiatry‚ by his parents as a result of his recent behaviors. Holden is a 6‘2” tall and healthy young man. In multiple therapy sessions he has brought up his family and friends. One family member in particular that was brought up was his younger brother‚ Allie‚ who passed away of leukemia when Holden was 13 years old. (Salinger 49) Allie’s death seems to be the root of Holden’s
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a. Holden does in fact have many unique and grotesque qualities. In fact‚ Holden has Schizophrenia. Because of this‚ Holden has trouble expressing his emotions externally‚ relating with others‚ and perceiving reality. Throughout the entire novel‚ Holden interacts with a number of individuals‚ but these interactions are not sincere‚ meaningful‚ or significant. This is due to Holden’s inability to realize‚ understand‚ and accept where others are coming from. b. In the novel‚ Holden does have
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Is Holden Claufield a misfit in societyI do think that Holden Claufield is a misfit in society. It doesn’t seem like that is society fault that he is‚ its just the type of person that he is. He describes everyone around him as them being a phony as he likes to describe it. The way Holden cant fit into the society around has drove him to hate it‚ instead of him coming to realize this he just judges other people on the fakeness and dishonesty. Holden even thinks that his own school is hypocritical
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Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy living in a society in which he believes to be full of hypocrites and "phonies". Everything with any connection to his life he believes to be a phony. From teachers to his friends‚ to people he does not even know. Holden always found some kind of a reason to give off the impression that he is superior because they are just fake. He is in belief that he is capable of understanding everything about a person just by looking at them and judging their first impression
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The Holden Monaro is a coupe sports car in the line of HSV‚ or Holden Sports Vehicles‚ made by its namesake Australian company. The car comes in a couple different specifications‚ but the engine is always either a V6 or a V8‚ making it a powerful and fast vehicle. The original Monaro was created in 1968 with different “species” of car throughout the next three years. The second generation of Holden Monaros was begun in 1971‚ which changed the body design of the car completely as well as made the
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Maturity is very important‚ when you are mature you are given the respect you would not otherwise get. Especially at a young age. In Tim Elmore’s post "The Marks of Maturity" It talks about how kids know way too much way too fast. It’s not that you can never learn those things‚ just not when your 13. Some things are just too much for a little brain to understand. The more and more you learn‚ the more mature you will need to be. When someone is mature‚ they understand‚ they listen‚ they can talk
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From the beginning of Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield has kept himself on the outskirts of society. The first time he really demonstrates this is on page 5‚ when he’s describing the view from on top of Thomsen Hill. Everyone is at the game‚ screaming and cheering for Pencey to win. He had just gotten kicked out of Pencey Prep for failing four of his five classes‚ so him standing on top of the hill is both a literal and metaphorical statement of how he doesn’t belong there. By being physically
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