Young teenagers suffer from isolation and remoteness causing them to have a feeling of anxiety and depression. J.D Salinger and his novel The Catcher in the Rye reflects on Holden and how Holden is affected by the death of his younger brother Alie, it makes Holden feel isolated and lonely. Stephan Chobosky and his novel The Perks of Being a...
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Adolescence, a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. Teenagers between thirteen and nineteen years of age, experience awkward increase in stage of their lives. During the teen years, teenagers reveal in some overwhelming external and internal struggles. In the novel “Catcher in the Rye (1951), J.D. Salinger uses the motif...
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J.D. Salinger introduced Holden Caulfield as an emotional teenager that had been kicked off his boarding school. Holden faced difficulty when he left and felt alone in the world. His parents were not there for him and his sister, so he had to take up a responsibility that he was not ready for. He was not ready to protect his...
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My imaginative piece, crafting the viewpoint of a homosexual participant within a gay conversion therapy program, uses the influence of Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger and Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, A Modest Proposal to reinforce the created voice of dissent. Opposing religious belief, societal norm and the totalitarian like the dominance of leading service figures, the narrative draws...
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The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger is a classic novel about a young man named Holden Caulfield and his journey into the adult world. Holden has been to many schools and kicked out many times. Holden tells the story of his expulsion and the adventures following it. He runs into a variety of characters on his journey...
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Innocence is something people want to keep, especially during or after adolescence. Holden goes through this transition because of losing his brother, Allie, and struggles to accept it. To Holden, losing Allie is a traumatic experience that affects him greatly enough to manipulate his views on adolescence. From this, he makes the effort to save his and others’ innocence. Holden...
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Throughout the novel, Holden seems to be excluded from and victimized by the world around him. As he says to Mr. Spencer, he feels trapped on “the other side” of life, and he continually attempts to find his way in a world in which he feels he doesn’t belong. As the novel progresses, we begin to perceive that Holden’s alienation...
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Symbols in books tend to have many different moods that balance each other out, and most often or not are found in characters along with objects. The most significant symbols are not Characters at all in The Catcher in The Rye. The most impactful Symbols in the story are The ducks, Holden’s hunting hat, and death itself. The text shows...
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Majority of the book Holden is a pessimist, angry, and depressing young teenager that struggles with the idea of adulthood. The author uses his state of mind to mask his desperate need to protect the idea of innocence. Holden spoke with an informal and childlike tone, but he had a more respectful tone when he talked to the other characters...
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Growing old is inevitable, but having the courage to mature is definitely a choice. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye follows the adventures of seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, a lonely outsider that struggles to find his place in society. Similarly, Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid highlights the coming of age and mother-daughter relationships of Annie John on the island of...
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Through the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Holden is portrayed as a controversial adolescent to the 1950’s society he grew up in. He was constantly breaking traditional values, causing him to stand out among the rest of the teens his age. The teen culture illustrated by Holden has not influenced teen culture today due to teenagers...
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The book is about a young character’s growth to maturity, bildungsroman is a novel that deals with the formative years of the main character his psychological development and moral education, it usually ends on a positive note with the hero’s foolish mistakes and painful disappointment over and a life of usefulness ahead, the novel is actually a story of a...
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Towards the end of the novel Holden compassionately refers to his sister as 'old Phoebe' and it is clear from this affectionate tone he cares about her. Holden is protective of Phoebe's innocence as he sees himself in her from a time not too long ago. As growing up for Holden has required him to recognise the world around him...
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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, the author constructs a nihilistic teenager who lives in a society dominated by phony adults and is trying to deal with both internal and external conflicts. Nihilism is the belief that there is no value to life. Nihilist people are very pessimistic and have no loyalties or moral principles....
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Adolescence is the period of time following after puberty fully finishes developing within a teenager which a young person transitions from a child into an adult. Catcher in The Rye leads its audience through a narrated story about a teen’s weekend displaying his coming of maturity, or what he believes to be his coming of age. Is this weekend for...
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In The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger tells the journey from adolescence into maturity for Holden Caulfield. Adolescence is the stage in one’s life in which maturity into adulthood occurs. The story starts off with Holden getting kicked out of the fourth preparatory school he has gone to, Pencey Prep. Instead of waiting for his Christmas break to...
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In Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger Holden is characterized as a normal teenager, but throughout the book he demonstrates some behaviors that can label him more as abnormal. Although the book doesn’t not take during a long period of time the actions that Holden takes, and thoughts that he constantly has tells the reader that he isn’t mentally...
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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is written in a first person narrative told by a teenager, Holden Caulfield. Holden reflects on the experiences he had over the course of a few days. The story begins at Pencey Prep, where he is kicked out and the rest takes place in New York. The essential question of this novel is,...
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Challenges they often come and go, facing those challenges is what defines you as a person, it’s what builds your character. In the Catcher in The Rye and in The Bell Jar, both main characters had to face mentally, physically and emotionally tough challenges, in Holden’s case it was from getting kicked out of school, getting robbed and beaten up...
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The Catcher in the Rye describes the emotional struggles of a teenager in the 1950s that all of us can somewhat empathize with. Holden may be misunderstood at first because he pushes the readers away with his distancing language and confuses us with his hypocrisy. The real Holden is empathetic under his emotional mask but chooses to act independently to...
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The book Catcher in the Rye is an immensely diversified book in the sense that there are multiple aspects being involved. Everything from hate to love, compulsiveness to Holden's feelings towards his paradoxical and complex state of mind. And that's actually one of many recognizable things that you could notice by reading this piece of work. Depending on which chapter...
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In today’s society adolescents face numerous problems that not only affects them physically, but also mentally. In Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, and The Catcher In the Rye by J.D Salinger, the protagonist’s face several conflicts throughout the novels. Ralph, the main character in Lord of the Flies, must gain the respect of others as well as...
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The themes in any piece of writing is what brings readers wanting more. A strong theme leads to a strong novel, or piece of writing. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, holds three strong major themes which consist of, innocence, death and religion. These themes bring you along Holden's journey and how he overcomes certain obstacles in his life...
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First of all, Holden and Esther share the common obstacle of being unable to conform to the standards and expectations formed by society. Holden and Esther are both adolescents in a 1950s United-States, a less progressive time where you had almost no choice but to follow the path set out by society as you enter the adult world. However, neither...
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The book “The Catcher in the Rye” follows Holden Caulfield as he faces the stage between childhood and adulthood. More specifically, the book describes the days after Holden gets kicked out of a prestigious boarding school (for the third time), and how he spends his days in the city before he tells his parents about getting kicked out. During his...
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Have you ever lost someone you cherish? Well so have the protagonists in the novels, “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Sallinger, and “I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” by Erica L. Sanchez. Holden Caulfield and Julia Reyes both experience family disunity along with loss of innocence, trauma,and loss of a loved one. The novels portray the theme that...
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The main character of the book is Holden Caulfield, he is also the narrator of the book but he is not very specific about where he is telling this story. The book's title is of great importance. It is the title that summarizes the book in a few words and in this case, it is The Catcher in the rye....
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'Is Holden Caulfield expected to be insane?' So asked one coursing authority before emptying J. D. Salinger's great copy for The Catcher in the Rye. Today, perusers may find that Holden must experience a blend of miserable, post-stunning weight issue (PTSD), and dread. Holden himself references mental wobbliness, underhandedness, and treatment. He presents himself as an 'insane,' and he yields...
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Since 1951, The Catcher In the Rye, is written through J.D. Salinger has been off and at the chopping block. Although the radical has been the purpose of grievance, it has additionally been the problem of different sorts of characters. The novel suggests the life of sixteen three hundred and sixty five days vintage, Holden Caufield. Currently in psychiatric care,...
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Being a teenager is challenging on many levels, from fitting in, to passing school, to fighting with your parents, these years are a struggle but they have a large impact on who you grow up to be. As a teen these hardships can cause many emotions, and without an outlet to share and express their feelings, they often end up...
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