side of you they could have symptoms of depression. Thesis Statement (your argument) Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger‚ 1951) shows signs that he is suffering from depression. Directional Statement (The points you are going to use to support your argument) He demonstrates several symptoms of depression including lack of sleep‚ lack of interest‚ and feelings of guilt. Holden also considers suicide and is obsessed with death. BODY OF ESSAY Topic Sentence of first
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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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Holden There are countless ways to interpret the character of Holden Caufield. I think the best word to describe him is protective. Which leads me to the first innermost circle‚ the name Holden in a case. Throughout the book‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger‚ Holden has tried to preserve innocence and the case around his name shows his protective personality. Located in the second circle are for me the two most important symbols about Holden in the book. The first item is Allie’s baseball
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Holden Caulfield’s past events have affected his present actions‚ attitudes‚ and values of character in both positive and negative values. Some many notable past events that affected him in the future without him knowing were; when he didn’t take Pencey seriously and got kicked out of it for his grades‚ also when him and Jane were close friends and Stradlater brings her up‚ also when he gets a prostitute ordered to his house‚ and lastly when his little brother dies from an illness. All these past
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Holden as a foil ti Zooey By: E.S. Although they are the protagonists from two separate books‚ Franny Glass‚ a teenage girl in J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey‚ and Holden Caufield‚ a young man in Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye‚ serve as foils to each other. Both suffer unnecessarily due to their interaction with those whom they are close to‚ due to their relationships with themselves‚ as well as due to their views on the world. In the end‚ however Franny and Holden change their values
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One doesn’t need a Ph.D. in theology to look around the world and realize something is desperately wrong. The existence of evil is one of the most vexing challenges a Christian--or any person‚ for that matter-- must grapple with. It’s occupied the minds of great Christian thinkers since the beginning‚ including St. Augustine (354-430). For much of his life he worked hard at a solution. Augustine’s approach was not just brilliant; it was practical. His insight is intellectually credible and emotionally
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Lehman‚ David Lehman 1 English 2 Honors Gifted 14 May 2007 Mrs. K. Doyle Modern Slavery Our sixteenth president‚ Abraham Lincoln spoke the following words in the Emancipation Proclamation‚ which were meant to free all slaves in the United States from bondage in 1863. “That on the first day of January A.D. 1863‚ all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United
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This is the diagnosis for Mr. Holden Caulfield. Mr. Caulfield is a sixteen year old‚ white‚ male‚ whos residence is in New York City‚ New York. He has brown/gray hair and is about 6 foot. Caulfield is in high school and was recently expelled from Pencey Prep. After analyzing Caulfield‚ I have come to determine that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). Mr. Caulfield has multiple symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After speaking with the patient and observing his actions‚ several
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Teen pregnancy has been a great issue that has been widely discussed about and seen to increase in the United States. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy one-third of girls in the US get pregnant at least once by the age of 20 and most of the pregnancies are unplanned (2011). Teen pregnancies have been increasing due to the fact that teens are not using contraceptives to prevent any pregnancies and society does not do a good job on informing teens of the importance
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Holden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old boy who has to deal with all of the toils of growing up‚ while dealing with the loss of his younger brother and an unstable home. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is a story about a boy who alienates himself from people he loves and knows as a form of protection from being hurt. The main reason that Holden acts this way is because he is still dealing with the loss of his brother‚ Allie. “I was only thirteen‚ and they were going to have my psychoanalyzed
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