Angela Rodriguez Ms. Toland APLAC per. 2 December 6‚ 2012 Catch Her in the Woods Fairytale Boy! This crumby forest filled with little girls in goddam red hoods. Who wears a red hood in the forest? No one‚ that’s who. I’m the wolf in this forest. No one ever comes through here except for some wild dogs or squirrels. Those squirrels just kill me! They jump at the slightest movement. I sometimes chase like I’m gonna eat them or something—to get a kick out of it. Not that I’d have done
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Most important thing in life-Childhood Don’t you just love little kids. They do some of the dumbest things but‚they are so cute doing it.. My cousin once ate a dime but‚ I still laughed. At the age Allie died He still didn’t get to see the world. He was so innocent. It’s how Holden judges the world and how he acts in it. Helps him help who actually needs it. Ali is the most important character in the book. He sets up Holden’s thoughts of childhood. It’s how he looks at the world. Holden sees youth
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Entry One Quote: “... and all that David Copperfield kind of crap but I don’t feel like going through it if you want to know the truth... my parents would have about two hemorrhages a piece it I tell anything pretty personal about them.” (Page 1) Response: This excerpt makes me very curious about his family members. The tone makes me believe that Holden probably is ashamed by them or he doesn’t like them when he describes them as “crap”. His parents’ attitude toward telling others personal stories
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Similar observations are made by academic writer and author Sarah Graham in her book entitled Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. In this book‚ Graham addresses a variety of reading techniques‚ themes‚ and comparisons/contrasts in regards to Salinger’s most popular novel‚ but she specifically addresses the main theme of Holden’s attempt to escape the phony 1950’s materialistic focused society surrounding him. Graham begins her take on this theme of escaping society with a chapter on Holden’s rebellion:
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Holden notices two nuns with cheap looking suitcases. He immediately judges them based on the appearance of their suitcases.Holden says that he doesn’t like cheap suitcases because they do not look as nice. He is not just talking about suitcases‚ he means people who are in different economic positions than his. This shows how Holden‚ who grew up going to private schools where almost all the boys were from rich families‚ wasn’t used to being around someone who was from a lower class or someone who
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Pleasantville Popular culture is the artistic and creative expression in entertainment and style that appeals to society as whole. It includes music‚ film‚ sports‚ painting‚ sculpture‚ and even photography. It can be diffused in many ways‚ but one of the most powerful and effective ways to address society is through film and television. Broadcasting‚ radio and television are the primary means by which information and entertainment are delivered to the public in virtually every nation around the
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Jane’s mother‚ he’s afraid Sally’s mom will pick up at her house‚ and he "doesn’t like" Carl Luce. Holden steps out of the phone booth after twenty minutes‚ having not called anyone. This is the story of his life. Or at least the story of The Catcher in the Rye. When Holden does end up interacting with people‚ he usually gets the short end of the stick. He invites Ackley along to the movies‚ but Ackley won’t return the favor by letting Holden sleep in his roommate’s bed. He writes Stradlater’s composition
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In the novel‚ Catcher in the Rye adolescence is shown throughout the novel in the character Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is stuck in a grey area where he isn’t so much a child anymore but he’s also wouldn’t be classified as an adult. There are many ideas shown throughout this novel that distinguish and represent adolescence and throughout the novel Holden’s voice does work as an adolescent one. But a theme that sticks out the most to me in the novel is sexuality. Specific sexuality traits could
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satisfying life a woman could lead by fulfilling her duties. Gary Ross’s 1998 feature film Pleasantville examined the differences between the 90s and the 50s image of family by transporting 90s characters into the ideal black and white image of the ideal 1950s family of a mother‚ father‚ son and daughter. Not only did this movie explore ideas in feminism‚ but racism as well. When a character of the original Pleasantville was exposed to something new‚ they turned from black and white to an image of color
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Todd would stay miserable and keep his parents happy and keep up his imagine whereas Holden would rather run away and keep being sent to new schools making his parents look bad and be real instead of being a "phony" as Holden would say. In the catcher in the rye Holden doesn’t talk much about his parents but you can imagine that they are kind people after going through the loss of loosing a child. That after they lost that child it might have become too painful to keep Holden around which is why they
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