This semester‚ I read the book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. This is a stunning book about a 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
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The Catcher in the Rye is written in a subjective style from the point of view of its protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ following his exact thought process (a writing style known as stream of consciousness). There is flow in the seemingly disjointed ideas and episodes; for example‚ as Holden sits in a chair in his dorm‚ minor events such as picking up a book or looking at a table‚ unfold into discussions about experiences. Critical reviews agree that the novel accurately reflected the teenage colloquial
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Case 11 Teaching Note Gap Inc. in 2010: Is the Turnaround Strategy Working? Teaching Outline and Analysis 1. What does a five-forces analysis reveal about the strength of competition in the U.S. family clothing stores industry? In leading the class discussion of the five-forces analysis‚ we encourage you to direct the attention of students to Figures 3.3‚ 3.4‚ 3.5‚ 3.6‚ 3.7‚ and 3.8 in Chapter 3 to support their analysis. 11-1 Case 11 Teaching Note Gap Inc. in 2010: Is the Turnaround
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countries‚ as well as some U.S. schools due to excessive use of curse words‚ the novel instantly became a success. In present time‚ it is still very popular and considered an American classic. A brief plot summary The story is about Holden Caulfield‚ a 16-year-old boy from Manhattan. He is privileged‚ yet troubled‚ and has recently been expelled from his current private school‚ which has happened several times in the past too. He decides to leave the school a little earlier than he is allowed
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humble upbringings. Similarly‚ the character Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye faces isolation‚ to cope he begins to fail most of his classes. Although Nomi Nickel from Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness‚ and Holden Caulfield from J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye rebel to compensate for their isolation ‚ both ultimately realize valuable lessons. Nomi Nickel realizes that she is accepts her Mennonite community‚ whereas Holden Caulfield realizes that people have to change in order to
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Most journeys involve a change in character. One example of this is the journey of self-discovery that Holden Caulfield undergoes in “The Catcher in the Rye”. J. D. Salinger uses a variety of linguistic and literary techniques such as characterisation and setting to take the audience on Holden’s journey. Holden Caulfield is a teenager who is struggling to fit into adult society. This is evident from very early on in the book when Salinger immediately characterises Holden as a very judgmental and
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guessing what Holden is really feeling or thinking. Holden’s outlook and perspective on life are displayed on each page and I can hardly ever put the book down. There are many aspects of this book that I truly enjoy. The complex character of Holden Caulfield is what I love the most about this book. He is very unpredictable and spontaneous. I never know what he is going to do next. He is truly a free spirit with a lot of troubles weighing him down. He has an interesting
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are shared amongst these works. For instance‚ looking at the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ and the movie Pleasantville‚ directed by Gary Ross‚ several similarities can be called out. Throughout the book‚ sixteen year old Holden Caulfield displays what his life is like after being kicked out of boarding school. He often speaks of people’s phoniness and how he dislikes it. In Pleasantville‚ a teenage boy named David and his sister Jennifer are put into a TV show called Pleasantville
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During 1775‚ the American Colonies had a dispute between each other in the Virginia Convention on whether a war should be declared against Britain. For one of the meetings‚ Patrick Henry‚ an attorney and politician‚ gave a speech explaining his position on why the colonies should go to war. In his speech‚ Henry successfully applied the rhetorical strategies of metaphor and repetition to convey his argument that a war against Britain was the only right course of action to take. At the Virginia Convention
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Raye Cheng Catcher in the Rye Summer Reading July 17‚ 2015 1. Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ despises phonies‚ people depicted as corrupt and hypocritical characters‚ and though Holden appear to not be a phony‚ there are instances when he definitely does seem to be one. Holden loathes phonies for their hypocritical and superficial personalities‚ which he thinks is evident in almost all adults. He explains his hatred for these people
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