Journal entry a) Plot Development 1) Exposition Holden Caulfield is a 17-year-old adolescent and the protagonist of the novel. He describes the events occurring in 2 days around Christmas time of the previous year. He gets expelled from the Pencey prep school for failing in four subjects. He narrates what happened after he had left the school and why he had left it two days earlier than scheduled day. 2) Conflict This boy has an ongoing process of conflict in his mind regarding the good and
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Brad McCord-4 Rye Catcher The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J.D Salinger that deals with acceptance of the modern world‚ alienation‚ and the retention of youth. The Catcher in the Rye is portrayed through the eyes of Holden Caulfield; a lousy student that is fed up with society and the phoniness of the adult world. J.D Salinger mirrored himself through Holden Caulfield by projecting a shared adolescent life and a favorability toward alienation. J.D Salinger provided many aspects of his life
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symbolic of Holden’s attempt at alienating himself. The outlandish red hunting hat provides Holden with certain uniqueness and individuality of character‚ qualities that prove difficult to attain under the constraints of Pencey‚ a prep school that he attends. His discontent for Pencey prep ultimately leads to his flunking four subjects and having to leave the school because he "isn’t applying himself." We see flashes of intelligence in Holden’s character throughout the story‚ which illustrates Holden’s
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Holden alienates himself from all the changes that occur around him. Holden segregated himself when he didn’t go down to the seats for the last football game at Pencey. He secludes himself on the grounds that he gets kicked out of the considerable number of schools he goes to. Every one of those progressions panic Holden off‚ he gets to be reluctant to feel secure. Holden additionally estranges himself in light
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January 1‚ 1919 Place of Birth: New York City Brief Life Story: Jerome David Salinger grew up on Park Avenue in New York. His father was a successful Jewish cheese importer‚ and his mother was Scotch-Irish Catholic. After struggling in several prep schools‚ Salinger attended Valley Forge Military Academy from 1934-1936. He went on to enroll in several colleges‚ including New York University and Columbia‚ though he never graduated. He took a fiction writing class in 1939 at Columbia that cemented
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his brother D.B. who was a Hollywood writer at the start of his story. He was being expelled on the coming Wednesday from his fourth school‚ Pencey Prep‚ a prestigious school he attended in Agerstown‚ Pennsylvania due to his poor academic performance. He had already been banished from three other schools. Out of the five subjects that he had taken in Pencey Prep‚ he was able to pass just one of them‚ English. He goes to meet his history teacher‚ Mr. Spencer to bid him goodbye but instead gets chastised
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theme‚ and point of view. In both of the novels‚ the setting is taken place in an all boys’ school. The all boys’ school in A Separate Peace was named Devon High School‚ located in New Hampshire and the school in The Catcher in the Rye was named Pencey Prep‚ located in New York. By having both main characters being raised in a same type setting‚ they both can experience similarities that they might have to go through. However‚ each novel was set in a different timeline. A Separate Peace was actually
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Do you remember the transition between being a teenager and becoming an adult? Not wanting to grow up and face the world on your own? I remember as a child I was unsure of what my life would consist of without my parents. Transitioning between having a silver spoon in my mouth to not depending on them. When I was a child‚ I was so naïve of the world not knowing anything of what life consist of. My entire childhood revolved around the idea that my life would always be easy‚ full of games‚ and not
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is extremely lost throughout the book not knowing how to embrace adulthood and has very little assistance from adults. The reader first sees Holden’s immature behavior through his explosion from the Pencey Prep School. Holden is failing all of his classes except English and is asked to leave the prep school over the winter break. Holden leaves the school a couple of days before he is kicked out and embarks on a journey where his is trapped in between adulthood and childhood. Holden engages in many
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Big deal. Selma certainly wasn’t the type of girl who gave any damn interest in these types of phoney bastards. I knew because she told me that all football jocks hanged out in cliques and treated girls like hell. I’m guessing she only came to these Pencey games‚ was to please her old man‚ being the headmaster’s daughter and all. For almost the whole bus ride‚ I hadn’t even asked where she was going. I didn’t really want to be nosy and all. I really didn’t. But I figured out I should anyways‚ out of
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