...In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the setting changes as quickly as Holden’s indecisiveness and mood. The beginning of the novel takes place in a residence that the reader will later assume to be a type of psychiatric ward or mental institution. This is where the majority of the novel is told from Holden’s memories, a stream of consciousness that makes the story jump to different settings in the book. First introduced from Holden’s memories is when he is on top of a hill overlooking his school that he refers to as Pencey Prep, where he is viewing a football game. Holden then runs to his ill teacher’s home to discuss his flunking out of school. After an unpleasant farewell, Holden returns to his dormitory in the Ossenburger Memorial wing of the school back at Pencey. Two friends of...
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...Holden is drawn to the Museum of Natural History, because of the feelings he got from the people that worked there, the consistency from how nothing would change, and how it used his ideals, making it a place of comfort for him. On Holden’s way back home, he encounters a little kid and asks where his sister would be, and the kid replies that she is probably at the Museum of Natural History. This makes Holden nostalgic because the Museum of Natural History was one of the only places he genuinely appreciated, but couldn’t go anymore because he attends (attended) a boarding school. He recalls his time going to the museum, and is reminded of what he likes about the place. “The floor was all stone, and of you had some marbles in your hand and you dropped them, they bounced like madmen all over the floor and made a helluva racket… She never got sore though, Miss Aigletinger...if you touched one of the paddles or anything while you were passing, one of the guards would say to you, “Don’t touch anything, children,” but he always said it in a nice voice, not like a goddam cop or anything.” (156-157) About dropping the marbles and making a “helluva racket,” is just something that kids are going to do, and you are not going to be able to stop them. What Holden acknowledges about the guard, is that he is not trying to boss you around in a scruff voice and tell you what to do (which Holden despises), but says, “Don’t touch anything, children,” in a “nice voice” which Holden appreciates because...
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...In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden has been kicked out of Pencey Prep; he then proceeds to visit Mr. Spencer whom he talks to for a while. Mr. Spencer leaves Holden more depressed than he was beforehand. Holden leaves Pencey Prep and goes into New York City where he debates calling Jane, searches for Phoebe, and tries to cheer himself up before having to go back home. Holden goes back home during the night to talk to Phoebe and she gives Holden some money she had been saving, Holden cries and goes back out. Holden returns home at the end of the novel and we don’t know what happens, but he tells us that everything is okay. Throughout the novel three main literary elements are present: Holden’s tone, Holden’s point of view, and Phoebe’s point of view. The tone and word choice Holden uses reveals what’s going on inside his head. Holden uses negative and hostile language which shows his despair and isolation (Miller). “‘That’s exactly my goddam point,” I said. “I don’t get hardly anything out of anything. I’m in bad shape. I’m in lousy shape’” (Salinger 146). The novel is packed with religious profanity that Holden emits all throughout the novel and because of it, religion is kept fresh in one’s mind and can infer that Holden wants it but doesn't want to go through with getting what he wants (Evans). Though the religious profanity is so prevalent in...
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...Often, many young adults battle with misconceptions about themselves and lack a sense of direction within their lives. In the coming of age novel The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, the conflicted protagonist, Holden Caulfield, struggles in maintaining a balance in his life with an aversion view towards society and a disconnect with others. Also, my personal memories connect to Holden’s events and views in life. Holden’s distaste for adapting into adulthood overpowers his pursuit of identity and acceptance of reality. Holden establishes that disabling others from maturing is impractical, but discovering a meaningful purpose within himself is critical in accepting his change into adulthood. Holden encounters various people that both suit...
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... Holden is embodied between childhood and adulthood by talking about Allie and holding on and that's his childhood. His adulthood is what he fears to enter, because he's scared to grow up but he acts like an adult. He can't get over allie's death we see this because he still talks about him and he wrote a paper about Allie for Stradlater's composition paper. He acts like an adult but he doesn't want to have the same life like every other adult. One way he likes like an adult is he drinks like one. He represents what most other kids feel when they're growing up. Holden is poisoned to entering the adult world even know he acts like one but he just doesn't want to face that he's growing up. We see him acting like an adult when he curses throughout the story because we all know that if someone curses it's cool and that's what adults do. He says “Sonuvabitch”, “Crap, “Damn” and “Goddamn”. In chapter 7 holden says sleep tight ya morons! He always calls people morons he even says “morons don't like it when you call them morons” in chapter 6. He also fears entering a world with phonies he talks about phonies the whole book. He says “One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all. They were coming in the goddamn window” in chapter 2 page 61. Then he hates movies because “there phony and the actor stink and it's like hiding/running away from your problems”. He says “i could see people going if there's nothing to do but when they're...
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...J.D. Salinger’s novel entitled Catcher in the Rye and Burr Steer’s movie called “Igby Goes Down” are always being compared for both possess the theme of youth and its attendant angst, rebellion, non-conformism and selfishness. In the Catcher in the Rye, our protagonist is Holden Caulfield,a 16 year old lad who ran away from prep school after he has been expelled. The book mainly revolved about his endless narrative and commentary of all the people he had encountered since he ran away. Igby Goes Down, on the other hand, is about Jayson “Igby” Slocumb, 17 years old who came from a wealthy family but became fed up of his family’s “hypocrisy” and chose to run away. These two are often speculated as two pieces of the same pie but this is actually easily seen in the similarities of the two protagonists. They both ran away because their family and school are already too much to handle and they began to pin hopes that somewhere far away, everything can be better. Although both possess this sentiment, Igby and Holden handled it in a different way. While Igby is an intellectual lad who boasts around about finding the true meaning of life, Holden is a teenager who whines and curses too much and finds everybody else as phonies and jerks, except for her little sister who he cares for. Igby’s narrative is somewhat comic while Holden’s is morbid. Both do not really have particular plans in life when they ran away. They literally went with...
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...Most people recognize the titles of literary works such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, and The Great Gatsby, which are considered classics. These works have been around long enough to gather literary acclaim and this has contributed to their widespread recognition. Charlotte Brontë’s coming of age novel, Jane Eyre, qualifies as a classic because it has been read in Literature classes and libraries around the world for the past one hundred and sixty years, proving it can withstand the test of time. Her classic writing style, unforgettable characters, and literary acclaim have all contributed to the novel’s success. These same characteristics apply to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, supporting that this novel will also stand the test of time. Each author has a style uniquely their own, with...
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...4141- 4141--- Cherished and Cursed:Towarda Social History of The Catcher in the Rye STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD THE plot is brief:in 1949 or perhaps 1950, over the course of three days during the Christmas season, a sixteen-yearold takes a picaresque journey to his New YorkCity home from the third private school to expel him. The narratorrecounts his experiences and opinions from a sanitarium in California. A heavy smoker, Holden Caulfield claims to be already six feet, two inches tall and to have wisps of grey hair; and he wonders what happens to the ducks when the ponds freeze in winter. The novel was published on 16 July 1951, sold for $3.00, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Within two weeks, it had been reprinted five times, the next month three more times-though by the third edition the jacket photographof the author had quietly disappeared. His book stayed on the bestseller list for thirty weeks, though never above fourth place.' Costing 75?, the Bantam paperback edition appeared in 1964. By 1981, when the same edition went for $2.50, sales still held steady, between twenty and thirty thousand copies per month, about a quarter of a million copies annually. In paperback the novel sold over three million copies between 1953 and 1964, climbed even higher by the 1980s, and continues to attract about as many buyers as it did in 1951. The durabilityof The author appreciates the invitationof Professors Marc Lee Raphaeland Robert A. Gross to present an early version...
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...books are those which capture life, as I know it down to every specific detail. These books are similar to watching an HD TV; every detail is just so pronounced and accurate. Books that resemble this beautiful real life portrayal could be like J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in The Rye. Every emotion that Salinger delineates through his characterization of Holden Caulfield is so potent that those details resonate even more for someone dealing with a similar internal struggle. When I read the book at 15, every sensory detail that Salinger described helped better illuminate part of my own internal struggle. The over exaggeration of the resentment of society as being in genuine really captured my own internal resentment for molds that people contrive themselves to fit. The one scene with Caulfield sitting in the bathtub depressed after refusing sex from a hooker will always be infused into my constant sub consciousness. When I just feel worn out and pushed to my emotional limit, I see that image burned bright into my memory because that scene is the ultimate depiction of frustration and stress. Although, this style of writing may be beautiful, sometimes it is nice to escape the hyperrealism captured in a book like Catcher in The Rye, and instead read something that expands the mind’s imagination. The contrary to the book that affirms one’s emotions and ideas is the book that challenges one’s conception of reality. A book such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula has the unique ability to really push...
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...big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.” (224-225) Holden is talking about the change that kids make when they transition to a teen/adult after experiencing “the fall”. I believe that after Holden experienced the change, he now doesn’t want kids to do the same and fall into the dark abyss. It’s better if the kids stay pure and innocent of the world and never become like the adults. 10) “Every Time I came to the end of the block and stepped of the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I’d never get to the other side of the street. I thought I’d just go down, down, down, and nobody’d ever see me again. Boy did it scare me… Every time I’d get to the end of the block, I’d make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I’d say to him... ‘Allie, don’t let me disappear. Please Allie.’ ” (256-257) Holden seems to be holding a large burden in himself and is always uneasy. He doesn’t want to believe that his brother is dead and refuses to let him go. It’s almost like it has been haunting him for so long that he is slowly breaking down from the inside Passage Analysis The book, Catcher in the Rye, is about a boy...
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...Education - ADHD, Learning, Philosophy of Education, Privatization, Public Schools, School Violence, School Vouchers, Teaching, Technology and Education, Test and Testing, Writing English Composition Essays - Analitical, Autobiographical, Argument, Cause/Effect, Classification, Compare/Contrast, Comparison, Conversation, Creative+Writing, Critical, Deductive, Definition, Descriptive, Description, Dialog, Division, Exploratory, Expository, Informative, Interview, Inquiry, Journalistic, Narration, Observation. Personal Narrative, Place, Profile, Process, Proposal English Literature and Literary Analysis - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A & P, Antigone, Apocalypse Now, Araby, The Awakening, Barn Burning, Beowulf, Beloved, Bible, Birthmark, Blade Runner, The Bluest Eye, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, Cathedral, Chrysanthemums, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Comparing Literary Works, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Death in Venice, Desiree's Baby, A Doll's House, Dr. Faustus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Everyday Use, A Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Glass Menagerie, Gulliver's Travels, The Handmaid's Tale, Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Lottery, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Metamorphosis, My Antonia, My Papa's Waltz, Neuromancer, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, On the Road, Oresteia, Paradise Lost, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Portrait of the Artist...
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...Language Objectives: Language functions addressed in this lesson include summarizing, literary analysis, describing characters (people, places, and things), describing actions, interpreting, and drawing conclusions. Language forms addressed in this lesson include: adverbs, modals and compound tenses, verb forms, nouns, adjectives, subject and verb agreement, and sentence structure. All four skills are addressed in this lesson, as students are required to listen to each other in their small groups and when giving their presentations, they are required to speak to each other to discuss their project in their small groups and when they present their work to the class, they are reading both the assessments and have read the larger text that this lesson is based on, and are writing a summary of their drawings. Key Vocabulary: Insightful,...
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...Book Banning I stand here today to address is the issue of book banning in school libraries. The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) defines censorship as: “The removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational materials… of images, ideas, and information…on the grounds that there are morally or otherwise objectionable in light of standards applied by the censor”Though parents may choose to discuss what their children are exposed to the idea of removing it from access to the public is absurd. By removing books from school libraries concerned members of society are now limiting children and their potential to expand their horizons. I firmly believe everyone has the right to be exposed to knowledge. By limiting the literature that a young mind is exposed to limits the ability to understand and become open minded. On that note I understand that some books should not be hand to children until they have the mental capacity to comprehend the language and the meaning behind some books as not to see these books as simple stories or to be taken literally. I understand that people have reasons for their censors but it does not mean they are always right. There are four motivational factors that may lie behind a censor’s actions. Those factors are family values, religion, political views, and minority rights. On the basis of family values, the censor is usually threatened by changes in accepted traditional ways of life. They view sexual...
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...of the Laureate Research Project. . Pacing: This map is one suggestion for pacing. Springboard pacing guides precede each unit in the “About the Unit” sections and offers pacing on a 45-minute class period length. Prentice Hall Literature – Use selections from Prentice Hall throughout the quarter to reinforce the standards being taught as well as the embedded assessments within the SpringBoard curriculum. QUARTER #1 SpringBoard Curriculum Pacing Guide August 23 – October 22 Standards and Benchmarks | Unit Pacing Guide | SpringBoard Unit/Activities | Assessments | SpringBoard Unit 1Literature * The students will analyze and compare significant works of literature and id relationships among major genres * Analyze the literary devices unique to the literature and how they support and enhance theme and main ideaReading * The student will use pre reading strategies and background knowledge of subject/content area to make and confirm complex predictions * Determine main idea and essential messageWriting * Pre write by generating ideas...
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... |5 | |AS Marking Criteria |6 | |A2 Marking Criteria |7 | |Selecting and Studying Texts |8 | |Approaching Essays – coursework |9 | |Punctuation Guide |11 | |Glossary of Literary Terms |12 | |Reading List |13 | |Independent Learning Project (Year 11 into Year 12) |18 | AQA English Literature B Specification and other resources can be found at: http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/english/eng_lit_b_materials.php?id=02&prev=02 AS LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE COURSE...
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