alongside Holden Caulfield as protagonist and reader simultaneously explore the boundaries and meanings of childhood‚ innocence‚ and the duality of these two identities existing in tandem. Salinger has written Catcher in the Rye to preserve the struggle to find oneself‚ and the denial of one’s growth‚ through loss‚ experience‚ and other various circumstances. Holden has many insights on typical topics. He believes that adults are corrupt‚ or “phonies” while children remain innocent. Holden is trapped
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novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger explores the pain of growing up through the experiences of Holden Caulfield‚ a sixteen year old boy who has just flunked out of school and thinks he has nowhere to go. Holden feels detached and has no one to listen to him. Salinger starts off the novel with Holden buying a red hunting hat. This hat has a big peak and funny looking earlaps. Holden doesn’t wear the hat in front of people because he thinks he looks crazy in it‚ but he wears it when he is
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character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ tries to preserve children’s innocence‚ one of the main themes of the book. There are many symbols in the book that show us his dream and desire of becoming “the catcher”: the title of the book‚ the mummies in the Natural Museum and the phrase “fuck you” on the wall. In this essay‚ I will develop these symbols more deeply and detailed. First of all‚ the title of the book‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ is a very important symbol in order to understand his dream. Holden wants to
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Rye‚ written by J.D. Salinger‚ and Heart is a Lonely Hunter‚ written by Carson McCullers‚ both exhibit loneliness as key aspects in their works. In the novel‚ The Catcher In the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield does not know how to treat women which partially explains why he is lonesome. For example‚ an ironic action Holden commits is he requests Sally Hayes to go on a date with him‚ but by the end of the date he says‚ “‘C’mon‚ let’s get outa here‚’ I said. ‘You give me a royal pain in the ass‚ if you want
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critiquing. There is a strong resemblance of Holden Caulfield to J.D. Salinger in which one could say it is quite autobiographical about Salinger’s views of the world. Whereas Holden gave up the dream of ditching society and living by himself away from everyone else‚ Salinger didn’t. After the success of the novel put him in high demand in the public eye‚ he withdrew and lived a life of isolation. Salinger’s early life indeed paralleled that of the character Holden in
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JD Salinger? Holden Caulfield tells it to us‚ the readers‚ through his point of view. His point of view‚ literately speaking‚ is called first person. We get the facts through his recollections‚ with his opinions and bias. Did you ever wonder what The Catcher in the Rye would be like if it were in a different point of view? It would be very different if it was told in third person dramatic‚ third person omniscient‚ or third person limited omniscient through a character other than Holden. Third person
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Catcher in the Rye Chapters 1-7 Journal entry a) Plot Development 1) Exposition Holden Caulfield is a 17-year-old adolescent and the protagonist of the novel. He describes the events occurring in 2 days around Christmas time of the previous year. He gets expelled from the Pencey prep school for failing in four subjects. He narrates what happened after he had left the school and why he had left it two days earlier than scheduled day. 2) Conflict This boy has an ongoing process of conflict
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and the movie Into the Wild are very similar in the way that both main characters‚ Holden and Chris are undergoing a coming of age. Holden is a boy who lives in New York and went to Pencey Prep before getting kicked out for falling most of his classes. Chris is a college graduate who abandoned both his mother and sister who have to suffer with living with their abusive father. However‚ both of these characters are afraid of being apart of the social norm because
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major plot line consist of a young teenager named Holden Caulfield who is approaching the fears of adulthood. Holden is extremely lost throughout the book not knowing how to embrace adulthood and has very little assistance from adults. The reader first sees Holden’s immature behavior through his explosion from the Pencey Prep School. Holden is failing all of his classes except English and is asked to leave the prep school over the winter break. Holden leaves the school a couple of days before he is
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"Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska‚ was based largely off of Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in Catcher in the Rye. In reading the two books‚ this statement becomes less and less difficult to believe as we see ignorance‚ rebellion against authority‚ death‚ isolation‚ and eventually maturity‚ and self-reassurance as underlying subject matters in both coming of age novels. Almost immediately‚ we see immaturity in both Miles‚ and Holden in something as discernible as each of their voices. It doesn’t
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