teen years when the person is trying to find a sense of direction. Holden Caulfield‚ a 16-year-old teenager was trying to find his sense of direction in J.D. Salinger’s‚ The Catcher In The Rye. Holden had been expelled from Pency Prep for failing four out of his five classes. He decided to start his Christmas break early and head out to New York. While in New York‚ Holden faces new experiences‚ tough times and a world of "phony." Holden was surrounded by phonies because that is the word he uses to identify
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Rye Stephen King once said that alone was the most terrible word in the English language. That may be so. However‚ in The Catcher in the Rye‚ we see loneliness through a wholly different point of view‚ that of its protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield. The solitude that Holden experiences is a type of seclusion from the rest of world that is more or less self-inflicted. His inability to understand or be understood by those around him has led him to weave a sort of cage around himself‚ and the bars of this
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1. Holden Caulfield self- isolates himself from the world. In some cases he knows that he is purposefully and in other cases Holden does this because he doesn’t react well to other people. This self-isolating is the reason that Holden often fails with human contact. The first time that Holden shows this is when he is talking to his teacher Mr. Spencer. Holden explains as he walks onto hi room that he does not want to be there because his teacher is sick and he does not care for old people. This is
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one type of person in Holden Caulfield. By the end of the book‚ we see a whole new person. How is it that one person can change as much in a short time period? They change by the experiences they go through. Holden went through a lot of experiences in a short period of time especially‚ and also in his past history. In the beginning of the novel‚ Holden has just come back from a fencing game in New York. He has also been kicked out from Pencey Prep. To us it seems Holden is a troubled boy‚ after
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March 9‚ 14 Sadness in Catcher in the Rye Catcher in the Rye is a book of many themes of many different types of different things Sadness is one of them. The main character of the book is Holden Caulfield‚ he has major problems‚ he finds nearly everything depressing. Today we’d say that Holden Clinically is depressed. He has no reason to be so sad all the time. He’s alone and he knows it‚ he also hates everyone and judges them. The conclusion is that isolation and alienation from others
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Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy living in a society in which he believes to be full of hypocrites and "phonies". Everything with any connection to his life he believes to be a phony. From teachers to his friends‚ to people he does not even know. Holden always found some kind of a reason to give off the impression that he is superior because they are just fake. He is in belief that he is capable of understanding everything about a person just by looking at them and judging their first impression
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and saw the moral lessons and what a great piece of literature it was for the students to grow and expand their knowledge on literature. Students were a huge contribution to the supporters of the novel. It was very easy for a students to relate to Holden the main character in the book and get the feel of discovering themselves and what they need like he did. Students felt the right to read what they please‚ they did not want to be limited as to what they should or shouldn’t read. Regardless of the
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Often during the novel‚ Holden will remember events or incidents involving Allie. It is noticeable that Holden’s attitude changes when he thinks or mentions his story of his past with Allie. He writes a composition about Allie’s baseball glove for his roommate Stradlater and also mentions he broke his hand punching all of the windows in the garage when he slept there the night Allie died. The death of his brother created a big impact in his life more or less because Holden thought of Allie as being
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of Agerstown‚ Pennsylvania. Holden Caulfield is a high school student who drops out of Pencey Prep due to his poor grades. This leads him to return home to New York where he bides his time staying away from his home but in a instance returns home to visit his sister for a time‚ he travels from hotel to hotel with a few bars as well meeting a couple of old acquaintances along the way until he eventually returns once again home to comfort his sister. I believe that Holden wishes to desperately cling
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Nick Greco English 9H Ms. Amarianos 12/22/14 Adolescence and Holden Caulfield‚ the Rebellion Introduction Is it just me... or does every adult hate what teenagers do? Well‚ it hasn’t only occurred in recent days‚ it has dated back all the way to the 1940s and 1950s after World War II. Adolescents of the 1940s were no longer concerned with winning a war‚ instead they were concerned with being popular and successful in their adult lives. The Catcher in the Rye is an amazing book by J.D Salinger
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