being. A select few on the other hand are a combination of both‚ and in this category falls a boy named Holden Caulfield. His immaturity‚ self-denial‚ awful habits‚ and inability to move on from the past make him relatable to any teenager‚ or any former teenager. Holden is the main character in a famous novel by J.D. Salinger titled‚ “The Catcher in the Rye”. The baseline of the story is that Holden fails out of a private school and travels to New York
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Psychological Evaluation Princendale Psychiatric Hospital Name: Holden Caulfield Evaluation Date: December 16th‚ 2012 Case No: 1124 3553 Admission Date: December 10th‚ 2012 Purpose for Evaluation: The patient is a 16 year old‚ single‚ white‚ male. He is currently a junior in high school and was recently expelled from his boarding school Pencey Prep in Agerstown Pennsylvania‚ where he was the manager of the fencing team. Family admitted this patient after
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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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The majority of the novel takes place in December 1949. The story commences with Holden Caulfield describing encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey Prep in Agerstown‚ Pennsylvania. He criticizes them for being superficial‚ or‚ as he would say‚ "phony." After being expelled from the school for his poor academic performance‚ Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after a physical altercation with his roommate. He takes a train to New York but does not want
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person’s true personality. But to Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye‚ first impressions are concrete in his mind. Because he is so judgmental‚ he doesn’t have any friends and eventually goes insane seeing as human nature is to communicate and interact and he doesn’t have anyone to interact with. J.D. Salinger argued in the catcher in the rye that being judgmental isn’t beneficial to ones well-being or success in life and this is seen as Holden Caulfield judges everyone and pushed most away
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has hit a crossroad could relate to. The novel follows Holden Caulfield‚ a boy who suffers mentally because he lives in a delusional world in where he fears the transition into adulthood because he despises change‚ hates adults‚ and isolates himself from others. In the novel Holden visits a museum‚ in which it showed his desire for everything to stay the same. His opinion is that children are more sincere and amusing than adults. However‚ Holden knowns that kids will soon grow up and become adults
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Catcher in the Rye‚ emphasizes the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who seems to feel extremely upset and feels as if he is growing up too quickly. Holden is positioned between being a child and an adult. He tries to act mature and grown by either smoking or drinking‚ when he knows that he is growing up. But deep down his soul‚ he is still a child by heart. When Holden is encountered by society’s assumptions in becoming an adult‚ he struggles to grasp
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IOC Study Guide IB English HL 1 – Ferrara What works will be included on the IOC? • The Fire Next Time • Poetry of Sylvia Plath ▪ Cinderella ▪ The Colossus ▪ Stillborn ▪ The Moon and the Yew Tree ▪ Daddy (extract) ▪ Medusa ▪ Cut ▪ Lady Lazarus (extract) • Pride and Prejudice • Hamlet What will the extract be like? • Length: 25 – 40 lines o
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types of different things. The main character of the book is Holden Caulfield‚ this guy has major problems. He’s alone and he knows it‚ he hates everyone and judges them too. Some themes of this story are the sadness‚ the lies and deceit‚ and Holden’s youth. Every one of these themes describe Holden in different ways‚ mostly it describes what he’s like. SADNESS Sadness permeates The Catcher in the Rye. Main character Holden Caulfield finds nearly everything depressing‚ from receiving gifts to
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Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. A sixteen-year-old boy‚ Holden Caulfield‚ wanders around New York City after being expelled from his most recent school and encounters numerous people‚ particularly women‚ before going back to his family. Though Holden tries to surround himself with others‚ he never seems to be able to connect to them. Holden is constantly trying to surround himself with other people‚ but isn’t able to form real connections with anyone. Holden socializes with girls multiple times throughout
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