Quiz Makeup Chapters 1-11 Holden Caulfield seems to be a troubled kid who keeps having to leave the school he is attending. He has just flunked out of Pensey Prep School because he was not applying himself. Holden goes to tell his former history teach Mr. Spencer goodbye. Mr. Spencer annoys Holden by reminding him that he flunked him and forces him to read his horrible essay he had written. Holden is in his room reading Out of Africa when one of the students Ackley comes into his room. Ackley stays
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In this bildungsroman novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden Caulfield believes that there is adolescence and adulthood‚ and he is so frightened of being categorized in the adulthood category that he goes to extremes to alienate himself from the population. He refuses to conform to the norm of American adulthood through his wild‚ immaturely driven thoughts and isolated feelings of others. Holden sees many people and many things throughout this book‚ most of them he shakes his head
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HOLDEN’S INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER CHARACTERS The catcher in the rye‚ by J.D Salinger‚ tells the story of Holden Caulfield and all the things he do when he gets out of Pencey School because of failing five subjects. When the story begins‚ it starts while Holden is still at Pencey. By being still in there‚ the story stars to tell about Holden’s interactions with some friends of him and how he feels with every one of them. Some of them he gets in conversation with but with others he just describes
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J.D. Salinger’s most popular novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ is narrated from the point of view of the main character‚ Holden Caulfield. Holden is a very judgemental character who spends a lot of his time judging other people as a way to avoid looking into himself. His critiques of the people around him are often things that he himself is guilty of. Much of what you learn about Holden Caulfield‚ you learn from the way he judges other people. One of Holden’s favorite things to call people is‚ “phony
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Holden’s Mental Breakdown The Catcher in the Rye is a novel about an adolescent boy struggling with the idea of adulthood and all the impurities it contains. The teenaged boy‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is slightly psychologically unstable and does not do well in any of his classes a preparatory school‚ because he refuses to apply himself. Holden experiences a mental breakdown as a result of tragic events in his past‚ his perception of the world‚ specifically the adults‚ and the effect it has on him‚ and
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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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When one both reads Catcher in the Rye and sees Rebel Without a Cause‚ he or she can’t help but wonder if the writers‚ Nicholas Ray and J.D. Salinger‚ somehow knew each other‚ or if one writer copied the ideas of the other. Jim Stark and Holden Caulfield‚ the two main characters of the stories‚ have so much in common that if they ever met one another‚ they would immediately become friends. The main theme that applies to both works is teenage rebellion. Holden and Jim seem to get into trouble often
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Comparison Essay The two books that I am comparing are The Catcher in the Rye‚ and Lord of the Flies. The two books are very interesting and are very opposite yet the same in many ways. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden is an idealistic character who becomes more of a realist as the novel progresses‚ while in the Lord of the Flies‚ many characters assume different roles. But the main argument between the two novels is that Holden has a dream job of being the catcher in the rye. The catcher in the
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The Flapper Throughout history there has always been rebels of society‚ flappers were the rebels of society in the twenties. Fashion at this time was a good indicator of the change the country was undergoing. Women in this time period disregarded traditional conduct and dress; they wore smaller‚ more revealing pieces of clothing. Flappers were a huge influence in the 1920’s by helping the American woman open up and become more independent and by demanding the same equality as men. Flappers influenced
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Tragic events can affect your mindset in irreversible ways‚ causing self-destructive behavior‚ low self-esteem‚ and devious actions. Jerome David Salinger in his novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ develops the character of Holden Caulfield‚ an adolescent boy who is living a tragedy‚ inflicted with suffering and deep pain within himself. According to Mary Klages from the University of Colorado‚ she incorporates Warren Hedges and Freud through a psychoanalytic lens and come to a conclusion that psychoanalytical
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