Allie Caulfield‚ although not physically present‚ has a large impact on Holden’s life. Allie is two years younger than Holden and died from leukemia when Holden was thirteen. Holden is clearly attached to and cares deeply for Allie‚ as he carries around and writes a detailed composition about Allie’s “left-handed fielder’s mitt” with “poems written all over the fingers”(Salinger 38). Holden remembers Allie fondly and remarks how “terrifically intelligent” he was and how he was “nicest” Caulfield
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The book Catcher in the Rye is set in the 1940’s. Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy from New York City‚ and he’s recently flunked out of several prestigious boarding schools because he doesn’t apply himself. You can tell from reading just a few simple pages that he indeed is an extremely bright kid‚ but he is viewed as a judgmental cynic and doesn’t give much of anything a chance. Their are about a million different things that "kills" Holden‚ but phony people are at the top of his extensive
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Is America Better Off for Blacks Today Than Ten Years Ago Tavis Smiley wrote the book "The Covenant with Black America". It was a New York Times Best Seller just over a decade ago. The premise of the book was the formulation of a blueprint which could be used to make black America better. According to NewsOne‚ his ideas ranged from "health care to criminal justice‚ affordable housing to education‚ voting rights to racial divides". Smiley recently sat down with Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to talk
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the Rye is a superb example of a bildungsroman. The novel is a narration by Holden Caulfield‚ a troubled and mentally unstable sixteen year-old that has just been expelled from his fourth prep school. Holden‚ who is undergoing treatment in a mental institution‚ recounts the story of his mental breakdown and the events leading up to it. He concludes the story with brief hints at his recovery. Though one assumes that Holden is receiving and responding to treatment‚ his attitude and tone are unchanged
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Holden Caulfield is a character whose actions speak more than his words. In J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden is an innocent person who expects the world to be perfect. He knows that there are choices available for every decision he makes‚ but doesn’t have any particular instructions to go with it. He seems to be a very positive person who has just given up trying to make better of him after his Brother Allie’s death. This plus his "teenage mood and attitude changes‚" the society thinks
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working with 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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Caroline Dillon 5/15/13 Mrs. Lynch Period 3 While reading The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Claufield suffers from abnormal behavior. It’s safe to say that Holden doesn’t exactly act like a normal teenager does. Holden suffers from bipolar disorder. A mental illness which causes you to be depressed‚ feeling low and useless‚ as well as manic behavior that causes him to be sleepless‚ irrational‚ and act out with wild behavior. Bipolar disorder can be expressed as a manic-depressive illness. It is
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500 Years Later This past weekend‚ I attended an event for Black History Month. At this event‚ there was a movie showing of the film 500 years later. The film covered issues from slavery‚ to the civil rights movement‚ to discrimination of African Americans today. After the film‚ the speaker‚ Kamau Kemayo‚ talked about the issues in the film and because of slavery‚ discrimination‚ and the baggage that African Americans hold on to which has caused Blacks to not adapt well to assimilation. What
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Macbeth as a protagonist in this old English play. Holden Caulfield is also the main character in “the catcher in the rye” written by J.D Salinger. This essay will elaborate on the similarities of the characters and the difference in their individual societies. What external forces are used? Are they honest‚ do they lie? What kind of influence are women? I will illustrate the strategies used between the characters and different qualities they obtain. Holden is a self-cautious boy‚ always judgmental of
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Lecture The RDP‚ GEAR and all that: reflections ten years later1 Stephen Gelb Let me begin by congratulating the editorial board of Transformation on their remarkable achievement in bringing out the 60th issue of the journal. Over the past 20 years‚ the journal has made a vital contribution to left and progressive thought in South Africa‚ and it is one of only three I can think of which survived the funding and personnel crises of the mid-90s (the other two being Agenda and the SA Labour Bulletin)
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