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    Adult and Holden Visits

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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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    Maturity in 8th Grade

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    obstacles. Each story contributes to the same universal themes. There are common universal themes connecting to different stories and convey similar messages .The unlike stories portray the diverse aspects of humanity where the readers can relate to. Maturity is something what everyone goes through once in their life. Never mind where overseas someone lives‚ growing up displays as a universal theme. In Napoleon Dynamite‚ the protagonist is the target for many bullies at his school. After building a

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    Problem: Kikkoman Corporation has been growing for seventeen generations. The key market for corporation is Japan and it is very saturated and mature. The future challenge for company is to lower dependence from domestic market and diversify worldwide. Symptoms: - Market in Japan is mature and declining - Company’s US factories is the most effective outside the Japan - US market grows approx 10% annually - Asian foods are becoming more and more popular in the US food market Alternatives:

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    Holden and the Rest of the World Holden is everybody’s favorite judgmental cynic. He also has a bit of a problem: he’s completely alone and he knows it – we stopped count at about 22 when we tried to track the number of times he admits to being lonely. The clear conflict here is that he judges and hates everyone‚ but at the same time wants them to join him for a drink and chat it up for the evening. He seems perpetually caught in this very limbo: judging a person‚ making a half-hearted attempt

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    Having suffered from such great emotional turmoil‚ Holden struggles with his own emotions throughout “A Catcher in the rye”. He rarely feels at ease‚ always confused by his emotions and maturity. Indecisive and scared; all Holden seems to be able to do is run. With no emotional support Holden reflects his own fears and emotions onto the ducks‚ mirroring his own stress and confusion. Frozen and stuck in his past‚ and in his mistakes‚ Holden never seems to be able to escape his history. J.D Salinger

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    Holden Coping Mechanisms

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    growing up is more difficult without healthy coping mechanisms and communication skills. When Holden was in New York‚ he visited a museum and described it as. “...in that museum was that everything stayed right where it was...you could go there a hundred thousand times… only thing would be different would be you “ (128). Museums contain snapshots that show the past in many different ways. In relation to Holden‚ he likes them because they do not change‚ unlike his ever changing world‚ and everything is

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    The Road

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    Research (Genre) ‘The Road’ is categorized as a post-apocalyptic fiction style novel. As stated in an article written from a student at Princeton University; Post-apocalyptic fiction is a sub genre of science fiction that is set in a world or civilization after either a nuclear war‚ plaque‚ comet/rogue planet strike‚ or some other general disaster. Usually post-apocalyptic fiction novels take place immediately after the catastrophe; the author focuses on the travails or psychology of survivors.

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    Freud: Maturity & Religion Sigmund Freud‚ an Austrian neurologist‚ viewed religion and maturity together as being incapable. When he discussed religion as an illusion‚ he said that it was a “fantasy structure from which a man must be set free if he is to grow to maturity.” He argued that religion as a neurotic behavior locks the psyche into a pre-adult stage‚ which I find to be true as well based on that ideas are imposed on birth‚ the need of a father figure‚ and that religion separates man from

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    Boo Radley Maturity

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    In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the character Jem was able to grow in maturity from the experiences that helped shape his understanding of Boo Radley. As a matter of fact‚ his childish beliefs‚ based upon rumors heard‚ of Boo was that he was a monster who ate cats and squirrels. Unfortunately‚ he doesn’t know yet that Boo Radley tries to extend a “hand” towards the kids by leaving gifts in the knot hole of the tree‚ to tell them he’s not who they think he is. A quote from pg 81 sheds light that

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    the Rye‚ the main character Holden Caulfield displays an obsessive dislike for "phonies”. Holden mentions the word “phony” regularly throughout the course of the novel. Holden thought everyone at Elkton Hills‚ one of the prep schools he’d gone to‚ were all phonies. But the biggest one of all was Mr. Hass‚ the headmaster of Elkton Hills. “ For instance‚ they had this headmaster‚ Mr. Haas‚ that was the phoniest bastard I ever met in my life.”(14). Holden thinks of Mr. Hass as a phony

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