The Catcher in the rye is a book written by J.D Salinger. The book is about a rebellious teenager named Holden Caulfield. Holden is lost in life and struggles to find his way out depression. J.D Salinger shows in this book the true value of having guidance in your life when one grows up. Guidance will keep one from from being lost in life. Salinger shows the importance of having guidance early on in the book. In the beginning of Holden’s story‚ Holden explains how he acts quite young for his age
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the night to find Mr. Antolini patting his head in a way that he perceives as "flitty." There is much speculation on whether Mr. Antolini was making a sexual advance on Holden‚ and it is left up to the reader to decide. Holden leaves and spends his last afternoon wandering the city. He later wonders if his interpretation of Mr. Antolini’s actions was actually
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Phoniness was Holden’s Downfall Holden Caulfield sees life and the entire world as a struggle between the artificial things and those that are authentic. His main pasttime is to detect phoniness in other people’s lives and to harshly critisize it‚ as well. And‚ although he loves the purity and innocence that childhood brings with it‚ and hates the artificiality of the adult world‚ he is‚ troughout the story of “The Catcher in the Rye“‚ gradually forced into it‚ due to his surroundings as
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his house he is treated as a criminal just because of his infamous father‚ and socially he is an outcast. With the help of Freak‚ he starts to develop some confidence in learning and himself‚ but this only hurts him in the end when Freak dies.The last way Maxwell is working against his mind is that he is dependant on others. Another way Maxwell’s mind
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realizes that him and the ducks are more closely related than what he actually thought. Holden is worried about his future and may be subconsciously worried about his own loss of innocence and the journey he has been on shows that he is trying to lose the last of his innocence while at the same time keep it preserved in the others around him. Finally when he arrives at the lake‚ “What it was‚ it was partly frozen and partly not frozen. But I didn’t see any ducks around. I walked all around the whole damn
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teenager named Holden Caulfield who has gotten kicked out of prep school after prep school‚ and after being kicked out of his current school‚ he tries to avoid making contact with his parents so they don’t find out that he flunked out of school. He has days of self-reflection and thinking while wandering the streets‚ going to countless bars‚ and meeting up with people from his past. He remembers different people that he met in his life and different things that he liked. He also thinks a lot about all
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after Alaska passes away‚ we see Miles torturing himself over her still‚ asking himself things like‚ "Did she ever love me? Would she have left Jake for me? Or was it just another impulsive Alaska moment? It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it‚ and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me." (Looking For Alaska‚ p. 171). While Miles shows his immaturity subconsciously in the sense that his biggest worries revolve
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In the short story‚ By the Waters of Babylon‚ by Stephen Vincent Benet‚ (April 25‚ 1963) the name seems to be given based on that Babylon was once the largest city in the world for 300 years in 539 b.c.‚ Babylon was a very advanced society for the time of its construction‚ and the name Babylon means Gate of the Gods in the language Akkadian. Babylon was one of the largest cities in the world for one hundred years‚ then it lost most of its valor for a few hundred years then later became the biggest
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Tomas Rivera’s short story “And the Earth Did Not Devour Him‚” Rivera tells the story about a young boy who has severely struggled to understand how exactly he has lost a year in his life. Rivera starts the book with the boy thinking about when the last year began and ended. He experiences reality as well as memories as he tries to adjust his mind. So far‚ many themes of literature can be seen in the book including racism and education. I also noticed the many self-held thoughts of conversation by
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Growing up is generally not considered easy or desirable. In J.D Salinger’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy on the precipice of adulthood. He is resisting growing up despite the allure of sex and alcohol‚ but he despises the thought of entering a phony world. For Holden‚ his life is stuck in a never ending cycle of misery‚ alcohol‚ and a desire to hold on to his childhood innocence. His own life up to this point has been very rough - his beloved younger brother
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