...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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...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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...novel about a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who is suffering from a depression problem. Some people believe he is not suffering from the mental illness of depression. While others believe he is suffering from the mental illness of depression. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger, Holden Caulfield is suffering from the mental illness of depression, which began when he lost his younger brother Allie at a young age. The death of Allie began the mental illness of depression for Holden. “I was only thirteen, and they were gonna have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the...
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...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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...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 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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...the book was Holden Caulfield, who when we first meet him, is preparing to move out of the prep school that he is currently attending. He has failed out of many preparatory schools such as Pencey, the school that he was attending. He takes a bus to New York City, where he lives. However, he is to embarrassed to return home and checks into the Edmont hotel for a few days. Caulfield goes downstairs to the Lavender Room, the Edmont's bar and nightclub but the waiter realizes that he is a minor and refuses to serve him. After leaving the bar, he continuously has flashbacks of a girl that he used to know, named Jane Gallagher, whom his roommate was messing around with the night that he left. He goes to Ernie's Piano Bar in Greenwich Villiage, and runs into one of his brother's former girlfriends....
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...Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D Salinger's Bildungsroman story “the Catcher in the Rye”, fears and hates the idea of becoming an adult. Holden shows this during chapter 25 when he repeatedly asks his dead brother Allie to save his innocence. “Allie, don't let me disappear. Please Allie.”(257). Due to the fact the Holden considers “disappearing” losing your childhood innocence, and the fact that he’s talking to his dead younger brother, I believe that it is clear that Holden is deeply afraid of becoming an adult. Another instance where Holden shows his worry that he might become an adult was (again) during chapter 25. Holden was walking around in his little sister Phoebe's school, when he notices “Fuck you” written on the wall....
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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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...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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...behavior. Although Holden has experienced a traumatic event of the death of a loved brother, these behavior issues are still detrimental and could have serious consequences in the near future. Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye by: JD Salinger has poor communication skills which put him in physical harm and angry outbursts that sabotage his relationships. Caulfield has many poor communication skills that are caused by his behavioral. Holden's poor communication skills, more specifically his tendency to instigate, is having immense effects on his wellbeing. In more than one situation Holden has been beaten...
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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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...Holden Caulfield is a very different person in 2018 whereas to before. In the book, Catcher in the Rye, Holden experienced many events that led him to ´grow up´. Holden is going through a depressive state where he finds everything depressing. He also believes that after some point, everyone is phony, when they're not. This affects Holden´s social life, which then affects his mental state. Throughout the book, the only thing that seemed to keep him happy was children. Almost everybody has experienced a low point in their life. During these times we aren't in our best states (physically or mentally) and we tend to make a lot of mistakes. However, we pull ourselves back up and push through. Later on, we tend to learn from our mistakes and reflect...
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