The book‚ “Ten Little Indians”‚ by author Sherman Alexie‚ is a collection of fictional short stories that are all fascinating and enthralling. All the characters in this book are full of depth‚ but there are two that stand out to me. One of those characters is William from the story‚ “Flight Patterns”‚ and the other is the character David from the story‚ “Do You Know Where I Am”. I find both these characters as very 3-dimensional and interesting. They both have their good and bad traits‚ they both
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Impact after Death By caleb anderson I think Allie influenced Holden the most in the novel. Allie‚ Holden’s younger brother‚ died of Leukemia when Holden was thirteen. Holden feels guilty after the death and blames himself for what happened‚ although there was nothing he or anyone else could do to prevent it. Allie’s death was one of the most traumatic experiences of Holden’s life and it impacted him in a negative way. Holden Caulfield‚ like every teenager‚ deals with adolescent struggles but few
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<b>Thesis:</b> Holden Caufield is a hostile‚ negatively charged character that suffers from depression which stems from a desire not to grow up and a lack of closure in his brothers death.<br><br>"If you really want to hear about it‚ the first thing you ’ll probably want to know is where I was born‚ and what my lousy childhood was like . . . "(pg. 1) These first words that Holden Caufield communicates during his tell of events that brought him to his breakdown‚ show the pent up hostility that still
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Is Holden A Good Friend? Holden Caulfield is the main character in the novel‚ “The Catcher In The Rye.” He lies often‚ judges everyone and thinks they are all phony. He has no direction and is always very negative on everything. There are many reasons I would not be able to be friends with Holden Caufield. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine‚ even‚ and somebody asks where I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.”(Salinger
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Singapore Managing the Human Resource of Holden. Lecturer Dr. Bob Compton Submited By: Rajim Krishna Shrestha (C3172789) Ge Du (c3157769) Lu Cui (c3160052) ShiDie Lu (c3159226) Word count: 4650 excluding executive summary‚ table of content‚ references and appendices. Executive Summary This report analyzes and discusses about the organizing and
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of writing‚ that will explain things in detail‚ not making you have to really try and figure out what the author is trying to say. Holden does none of these things. If Holden was a real person telling the story‚ it could not be considered a memoir. He continually lies throughout the book‚ and he does not tell the full story by leaving out how he is feeling. Holden lies so much throughout the book‚ you almost start to think that the whole thing is a lie. He even states in the book that he is a very
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correct .find an example of this in chapter 3. Holden opens Chapter Three with this declaration. He gives a short discourse on lying‚ and then we learn that Holden lives in a dormitory donated by an alumnus named Ossenburger‚ who made all his money with cheap funeral parlors. Ossenberger is a graduate of the school‚ who has been a contributor to the school. He is honored by having a dorm named for him‚ the dorm that Holden lives in. 3. Why does Holden think that Mr. Ossenburger is a phony? Someone
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SALLINGER A PHROPET OR A PHONY? Holden Caulfield has terrible habit of calling everyone a phony and he himself often behaves like a prophet or a saint‚ pointing out people flaws or as he sees it the phoniness in the world around him. Holden is not nearly as perfect as he pretends/wants to be. Many times throughout the novel he displays his phoniness and hypocrisy. Holden struggles with finding who he wants to be and searching for companionship. He has
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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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regards to the main protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ not accepting the unconditional love given to him by a series of characters throughout the novel. For the information the book provides‚ Holden is a sensitive teenager that has many psychological and social problems. Could he have PTSD? Sure he can‚ although if that were the case‚ his PTSD would-of only been worse as the reader digs deeper into the material. There were many events that gave us evidence to conclude that Holden could have had PTSD. At the
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