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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In life one thing is certain‚ that is death. Death follows no rules‚ death does not follow a schedule. Death can be unexpected and unfair but the fact is death does not live with us we live with death. Many children are usually not used to death and can not fully understand the concept behind it and if exposed to death many children do not handle it well‚ because of this adults do their best to shield children from death until they are ready or mature enough to handle it. Unfortunately in Salinger’s
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his mother bought him. He thinks about what his mother did to get the stakes‚ and how she bought him the wrong kind. As Holden gathers his things he says‚ " I had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before" (51-52). Holden does not want gifts from his parents‚ he just wants them to love him. When parents have more money and can afford to send their children
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Jessica Welch Ms. Skulnik English I November 16‚ 2014 Holden’s Symbols Imagine being kicked out of many different schools after your brother passed away and all while not having many friends and being bullied. That is exactly what happened to Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Salinger uses many different symbols throughout the book to show Holden’s maturation and thoughts as he goes through a very stressful time in his life. Holden is scared
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isolation as it effects Holden the greatest. We are first introduced to the theme of loneliness and isolation at the very start of the book‚ when he begins to look back on how he ended up in the psychiatric ward. Holden’s story begins with the day he was kicked out of his school‚ ‘Pencey Prep’ and he is watching the football game. He
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Carpenters; and Seymour‚ An Introduction”. However‚ they did not reach the culmination in the literary world as The Catcher in the Rye did. In his later years Salinger gradually drifted away from the literary circle with scanty publications. To this day perhaps
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A book is a beautiful thing. They give us sanity and imagination. Books take us to a place of many wonders. So why get rid of them? The beloved author Ray Bradbury creates a New York Times bestseller Fahrenheit 451‚ a fictional future when books are outlawed and burned. The book shows how absent-minded humans can be without books. How unimaginative we are without them. Another author‚ Bernard Malamud‚ once wrote a story named A Summer’s Reading. This story talks about a young man who has dropped
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The novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye‘ by J.D Salinger is a story that shows that growing up is a very painful process. During the novel‚ Holden Caulfield‚ a sixteen-year-old boy who was expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep went through his life that came with changes that caused him to become more independent and mature. In the story‚ Holden has reached a point in his life where is expected to grow up and follow more rules and guidelines about how to be a proper and responsible
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troubled teen‚ or someone with a serious mental illness? In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield gets kicked out of the private school he is attending and stays in New York for a couple of days instead of going home. Holden struggles with depression throughout his journey and has many problems like lying and drinking. Holden is suffering from depression because of many traumatic life experiences‚ most things make him miserable‚ and he participates
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Catcher in the Rye 21-23 Event hough Holden has been on his own for a little while knows how to get along without phony adults in his life. I dont know if it just in my mind‚ but he felt very eager and excited to see his sister‚ even though he has basically isolated himself to everyone else. He seemed desperate. This showed Holdens contradicted possiblilies of growing up or staying as innocent as you are now. Phoebe is a child‚ meaning that she is innocent‚ and that is the way that Holden
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