The Catcher in the Rye written by J. D. Salinger is a story depicted in the 1950s. THe main character Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy who is currently attending Pencey prep school in Agerstown‚ Pennsylvania. Failing out of three other schools‚ this is his fourth school.Which he is currently in the process of being expelled from. The story is set on a Saturday afternoon as Holden goes to visit a teacher to say goodbye. Since Pencey is a “sleep away” school Holden does not return to Manhattan
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Mrs.Schomer ENG 3K3-11 14 July 2008 The novel The Catcher in the Rye is about a young protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who tells the story about his life from a mental institution and how he got himself into that situation. Holden is not as perfect as he wants to be‚ due to his constant lying‚ his tendency to judge others and the negative situations he gets himself in. His inability to recognize that he is a phony and a hypocrite directly contributes to his physiological problems. Holden Caulfield
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INTRODUCTION Grabber and general statement Take a moment to look to your right‚ now to your left. Either 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
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The Catcher in the Rye Essay Bertrand Arthur William Russell once said‚ “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Every day‚ thousands of people have an emotional or psychological breakdown. It can be spontaneous or it can be built up and that person can leave signs that would show an oncoming breakdown. In the novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is a 16 year old troubled boy who
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Protagonist Holden Caulfield faces many events that make him feel that life is just a depressing way of living. Each opportunity Holden achieves he somehow finds a way to mess it up. In Holden’s perspective life seems really unfair to him. Ever since his little brother died‚ life turned upside down for him. Since the day Holden left school he went through many tough events that made him go back into the past. Holden does not want to grow up. Holden`s personality is very unique. In fact Holden`s
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In the Novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden’s dream is to stop children from growing up. He would imagine thousands of children playing in a field and on one side‚ there is a cliff. He would hide somewhere until a child came close to the edge of a cliff and then he would come out and stop them from falling off and catch them if they fell. To Holden‚ growing up means becoming normal and joining the fake‚ phony world. He is afraid of growing up because he does not want to be responsible‚ does not
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Have you ever thought that maybe there are others like you? J.D. Salinger wrote the Catcher in the Rye so that people could relate to it‚ mostly young adults. Holden Caulfield has been through a lot‚ first the death of his brother‚ then he starts to find himself in slumps‚ which he later on realizes that the problems he goes through are all his fault. I believe that Holden goes through these problems because he is depressed‚ and he is depressed because of the death of his brother. In the beginning
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JD Salinger’s Catcher and the Rye was written during a time of suppression for teens and often behave in outburst or turn to music that speaks to them. Although at the time music did not cater to the young folk‚ now there’s an abundant amount even for songs that cater to that demographic. This song A Letter to Myself by Denace. This song in many ways can be speaking to Holden as he goes through his troubles and he can identify with the song. Holden is one who is highly critical of himself and shown
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Maturing‚ Growing and Changing The Catcher in the Rye Sam Dunn M. Buzminski ENG3U Thursday October 2‚ 2014 S. Dunn 1 Growth and change is one of the biggest stages in someone’s life where they truly mature and develop. In the novel the Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger‚ the author puts the protagonist through various stages that help/force him to grow and change. These stages include firstly an emotional loss‚ period of awkwardness‚ culminating in a ‘setting forth’. Secondly
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Innocence‚ Compassion‚ and some Crazy’ Cliff A novel‚ which has gained literary recognition worldwide‚ scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents‚ The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J.D. Salinger‚ substantiates the growth and perils‚ which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and
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