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    community. The title of the movie addresses Peter Parker’s new title as Spiderman which is his new profession. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden Caulfield’s perceptions of death and maturity help him to find his dream of saving children from adulthood. Throughout the novel‚ the deaths of those who Holden

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    The Catch in the Catcher in the Rye… Literature can cause a variety of controversy in the world over the years there have been many different situations in which books have been banned and or challenged. The Great Gatsby‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ and Gone with the Wind all history changing books which has frequently been banned or challenged‚ this collection of raw American Literature have been attacked for numerous of reasons. Sexual content‚ profanity‚ and explicit scenes. All of these

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    Many people feel lonely or isolated. This problem is not new. In The Catcher In The Rye‚ J.D. Salinger talks about this issue using Holden‚the main character of the novel‚ to do so. In his novel‚ he uses the symbols of Allie and Holden’s red hunting hat to bring out and show Holden’s true emotions. When Holden is wearing the red hunting hat he is showing his desire to be alone and isolated from the rest of the world. one way the author shows this is when Holden is talking to ackley‚ “I pulled the

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    Joao Raimundo Mr. Booth English 10 01/10/2013 Influences of The Catcher in the Rye in the World Although The Catcher in the Rye has been considered one of the top 100 Books of the Century by the French newspaper Le Monde (Savigneau)‚ it is highly controversial and many people despise it. Several societies believe that the book leads the reader to psychological problems and misfits in society. Countless schools and libraries have banned the books during its first years of existence‚ however

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    Ms. Komar English 10B Period 5 Experiencing Grief According to psychiatrist Elisabeth Ross‚ there are four main stages of grief: denial‚ anger‚ depression and acceptance. Throughout‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ by J. Salinger‚ Holden experiences all five stages of grief. Holden is a teenage boy‚ who suffers from loss and loneliness. Holden vividly exhibits all of these different stages of grief. Holden tries to overcome his grief by going through the various stages of grief: denial‚ anger‚ depression

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    Tori Morrison portrays the premature loss of innocence in her novel The Bluest Eye‚ by explaining encounters that little girls are faced with‚ like violence‚ sex‚ and the ideas of beauty. (what is the argument Morrison makes about those ideas?) When one girl loses her innocence it causes a chain reaction that corrupt children’s brains because it creates the feeling of importance and maturity to share your knowledge. The things that they learn can forever affect their personalities and behavior.

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    Salinger paints the reader an unflattering picture of postwar America while showing how different social institutions follow one mainstream value. In all the 1950’s gave way to the counter-cultural movement that flourished in the 1960‚ making Catcher in the Rye the begin of the snowball

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    captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.” This quote is from the protagonist ‚Louie Zamperini‚ in the book “Unbroken”‚ by Laura Hillenbrand‚ replicates how precisely Holden views the world. Throughout the storyline of the “Catcher in the Rye‚” by JD Salinger‚ a seventeen year old boy named Holden has a different perspective on everyone he meets. Everyone Holden meets he thinks of them as a phonie. By him thinking that the entire society is fake‚ he starts to alienate and keeps pushing

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    In Jd Salinger’s award winning novel‚ Catcher In The Rye‚ Had many symbols that give this book its meaning. I’m going to tell you many symbols‚ and each and everyone one of them means something to the book greatly. One symbol that was shown was when he was at the museum of natural history. This symbol is childhood. Holden has a hard time with change‚ especially with young kids growing up. He wants them never to grow. The reason this is a symbol is‚ at the museum nothing changes. The displays are

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    In the novel‚ the Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield searches for acceptance from many people and for the majority of the time he gets rejected. Salinger uses 3 specific scenes of Holden trying to find acceptance which are when his paper is rejected by Stradlater‚ when his old teacher Spencer lectures him‚ and as he talks to the nuns. In two out the 3 scenes Holden gets rejected. It is a common them to see Holden not gain acceptance from others. Holden does not get rejected by everyone he meets

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