...perspective of Holden who has been expelled from his fourth school. After a fight with his roommate, Holden leaves early to explore New York City alone. Holden battles with the reality of adulthood that has turn a different turn on his life. We get to this stage where we fear to grow up and see what will be coming for us next in the future. Salinger’s novel clearly displays the experience of being isolated from multiple activities which can lead to the theme of alienation, the creation of the character (Holden) and also the symbolism which can be unnoticed. Salinger tries to convey a message with his writing to also displaying human connection is a must. The theme of “The Catcher in the Rye” is alienation which connects to Holden (the protagonist)...
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...about a boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden drops out of schools and faces hardships while away from home. Throughout the novel, it is shown that Holden refuses to grow up as he reminisces about his childhood life. He also faces many struggles and hardships. The death of his younger brother Allie seemed to take the greatest toll on him. His death had also much grief to him. Holden and Allie shared a special relationship that couldn’t really be replaced. His death affected Holden to such a great extent that he has difficulty forming new relationships throughout the story. Holden’s brother Allie was eleven years old when he passed away from leukemia. When Allie died, Holden went to his garage and broke...
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...sixteen-year boy named Holden Caulfield. The story begins with Holden being expelled from Pencey Prep. He decides to not go home, and chooses to leave three days early. The entire novel follows these three days that Holden spends in New York. There are many clear and meaningful symbols in “The Catcher in the Rye”. Some of these symbols include the carousel in the park, and Holden’s hat. The most important symbols in the novel that are also relevant in a “real life” setting are Allie Caulfield, Phoebe Caulfield, and the museum that Holden visits. Allie Caulfield is Holden's younger brother that died many years earlier, and he was one of the major symbols in...
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...person narrative, Holden Caulfield, is the indecisive teen that tells his story about a horrible weekend he once had and calls it “this madman stuff” (Salinger 1). His story begins at his high school Pency Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania which he just got kicked-out of for failing all his classes except English. Holden is supposed to arrive home days later, but he gets in an argument with his roommate Stradlater, and leaves to New York to stay at the Edmont hotel. He begins...
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...example of a person who does not take advice would be Holden Caulfield from the novel Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield narrates the novel, Catcher in The Rye from a mental hospital in Southern California. He narrates his life after failing out of his school, Pencey Preparation. Along the way Holden took advice from many people, but never executes it. “If” is a poem from Rudyard Kipling to his “son” to teach him how to be a man. Much like how Holden ignores the advice...
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...Jared Odom 4th Mr. Fish 9 December 2016 The Life Of Holden Caulfield “The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. Born on January 1, 1919, in New York, J.D. Salinger was a huge writer. His novel, The Catcher in the Rye, set a new course for writing during World War One America and made Salinger famous in the literature world. What inspired J.D. to write Catcher in the rye was the sights and sounds of a guy named Devon in the town of Tiverton where J.D. Salinger spent three months during World War 2. Salinger Served in the U.S Army and was one of the soldiers that landed on Utah Beach on D-Day while serving in the army Salinger wrote this well known novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. The main theme of the novel is the protection of innocence the story follows the life of Holden Caulfield and shows how he develops and comes of age. Holden starts out as a 17 year old boy that goes to school at a school named Pency High School which is a more formal and rich high school. In a result of not applying himself in school he was kicked out of the high school....
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...communicates the conflicting emotions present during Holden Caulfield's journey into adulthood, reflected by his cynical attitude towards the adult world and his idealistic perspective of the innocence of youth. One of the prevalent themes of Holden's journey to adulthood is his cynical attitude toward the adult world. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden says, "You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime. It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddamn Cadillac someday, and you have to keep...
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...Holden Caufield is the main character from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is unlike the other students at Pencey. His views and actions are unique, which results in him having many strengths and weaknesses, as a person and as a student. Some of Holden’s strengths include having a creative mind & having urban skill. Holden also has some weaknesses which include criticizing the world and others & having a tendency to lie frequently. One of Holden’s strength is his creativity and how he is able to develop unique pieces of writing. In the text, Holden was supposed to write a descriptive piece for his roommate Stradlater. The final result is a story about his brother, Allie’s baseball glove. Holden gave great detail about the glove and...
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...In the book “The Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger discusses certain terms and concepts that identify the difficulties the main character, Holden Caulfield, went through. Now in the beginning of the story, it shows or portrays Holden having a hard time fitting in with society because of the way they treat each other and in a way it's like giving up his innocence and being exposed to things such as phonies. However, the main reason it is difficult for him to fit in is because he wants kids to be safe from society and stay with their innocence, in a way this connects with how “ The Catcher in the Rye” is a story of Holden coming of age. This is also about how Holden wants kids to stay in the time period of innocence that they’re in now before...
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...novel based on a boy named Holden Caulfield which he is afraid of adulthood written by J.D Salinger. Holden feels that all adults are phonies. As well as the teenagers his age that pretend to be adults or mature turn out to be phonies as they grow up. Also they feel they have to be a certain way to be portrayed as an adult. Caulfield is portrayed as a kid to most people, he is constantly told to grow up. From being kicked out of Pency to sleeping from hotel to hotel he discovers himself continuously having the feeling of being lonely. Furthermore, Caulfield holds all of his feelings in to where he needs to talk to someone about it. Holden is going through the stage every teenager goes through. When Holden says, “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden I almost wished I was dead.”.This reminded me to today's society because there are many teenagers that just need someone to talk to or even just express how they feel or are to someone who will hear them out and not judge them or...
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...Holden Caulfield, portrayed in the Catcher in the Rye as a teen struggling to find his own identity, possesses many characteristics that easily connect him to a typical teenager today. The book was written many years ago, however, it is still relevant today. Holden's actions and thoughts are those that most teenagers can relate with. The desire to be independent and the confusion about “finding oneself” are issues that almost all teens face. Even though it seems the advancement of technology has “connected” us to people like never before, it has actually created a sense of loneliness rather than connectedness. Throughout the whole book, Holden is surrounded by people, yet he always feels “sad” and “lonesome.” “The first thing I did when...
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...In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, Holden is portrayed as immature because he is dealing with a mental disorder ever since his brother died and as a result, is kicked out of every school he went to. In the beginning, he goes to a school named Pencey, which is adored by its attending students. He decides to leave Pencey because he is failing every class except English, and is most likely going to be expelled anyway. He goes to his old teachers house, Mr. Antolini, and they talk about what he plans on doing for the future. He buys a notepad and a pencil and writes a letter to his sister Phoebe, telling her to meet up with him because he is planning on running away. He does not end up running away and plans to go to...
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...n this book, the fundamental character, Holden Caulfield, tells us a tale about what happened amid his Christmas excursion. Holden is a sixteen-year-old kid who has failed out of a private private academy. Since he is worried about the possibility that that his guardians would discover this, he goes to an inn in New York City as opposed to going home after he leaves school for Christmas get-away. In New York, numerous things transpire inside of a couple of days. For instance, he goes to the inn bar and meets three ladies after he first arrives there. The ladies leave not long after he neglects to chat with them, furthermore, Holden feels forlorn and discouraged. He goes to another bar to discover somebody to invest some...
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...The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a novel published in 1951. Holden Caulfield is the sixteen-year-old protagonist in the novel. He's a cynical character who has allowed grieving from his eleven-year-old brother’s death from leukemia to form the way he thinks about life, society, and himself. After getting kicked out of Pencey, a boarding school, he goes on a journey to New York City where he tries to connect with people he knows, like Sally Hayes, Carl Luce, and Mr. Antolini, and people he meets, including girls at the bar, the prostitute Sunny, Maurice, two nuns, taxi drivers and little kids. He protects himself a lot and prevents himself from connecting by using critical cynicism. He alienates himself from other characters through this misanthropic view on life, but he connects with readers through a conversational and informal style and his sense of humor. Though Holden has a...
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...Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield possesses many different character traits that make him an intriguing character. Irresponsibility and loneliness are two of his biggest characteristics, but throughout the novel, Holden shows that he can be desperate. Holden’s irresponsibility is apparent from the very beginning of the novel. He is clearly not on top of his grades and has been kicked out of multiple schools due to his poor efforts. In chapter one, Holden talks to his English teacher, Mr. Spencer, to explain what had been going on. Holden is well aware that the news of his latest exit won’t bode well with his already annoyed parents. “Well…they’ll be pretty irritated about it,” I said. They really will. This is about...
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