...Catcher in the Rye meets Finding Nemo Holden’s journey and Nemo’s journey are very similar because their journeys contain very similar struggles which helps them change for children to adolescence. Nemo and Holden are very childish and do not follow rules at the beginning of their tales. By the end of their journeys they change their complete train of thought and are more mature and and have a better understanding of life. The novel, Catcher in the Rye follows a young man named Holden on his journey from a child to an adolescent. This journey begins when Holden’s little brother, Allie, dies of cancer. Holden then starts going to a prep school known as Pencey Prep. Holden then kicked out of Pencey Prep because he got into a fight with another...
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...THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. SALINGER I. Content of the Book Holden Caulfield is a very weird and interesting young man who likes to do things on impulse or because as he said 'he got such a bang out of it'. He has a brother, D.B. who is a writer in Hollywood, a little sister named Phoebe and another brother Allie, who has already died before the story even began. In the beginning of the story Holden narrates that he'll be leaving his school, Pencey Prep (a school full of Phonies from Holden’s point of view), because he flunked out in the four out of five subjects he was taking, the only subject he didn't fail was English. Holden tells the readers that he had come back to Agerstown, Pennsylvania though he was traveling with his team for a fencing contest, he lost all of the foils in a New York Subway, and so the match was cancelled instead. Holden even mentioned that on the way home his mates treated him to silence and he found this very amusing. Though there was a football game going on, Holden didn't go down and watch it, instead he went to visit his old history teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer is a very old man who wants to help Caulfield in his studies (since Holden has also been expelled in a few other schools as well) and at some point Mr. Spencer even read out Holden's examination paper and the little note that Holden had written in the end saying that if Mr. Spencer would like to flunk him then he'd be all right with it, Holden explained to the readers that the...
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...The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Plot summary Holden begins his story at Pencey Prep, an exclusive private school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden misses the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his History teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and is not to return after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's History paper, in which Holden...
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...In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger portrays a lost and confused teenager named Holden Caulfield; who is trying to find his place in life after getting kicked out of school. After going to New York to escape his annoying peers; he meets a series of people in the city that helps him find his goal in life. His dream was to be the Catcher in the Rye and preserve childhood innocence, but this dream was later destroyed with the realization that children must lose their innocence in order to grow up. Throughout the book Salinger uses an array of items that symbolize Holden’s position and thoughts on the world. One of the significant objects mentioned by Salinger is money. In J.D Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye money is significant because it symbolizes the unfairness in society. In the novel money is constantly spent and earned with both a greedy and sympathetic mindset. To begin with, money is often earned and given to people with the worst morality. One of Pencey’s alumni Ossenburger is an extremely rich and powerful man, yet according to Holden Ossenburger is wealthy because of bad morale and trickery. “…you could get members of your family members for about five bucks apiece…” “He probably just shoves them in sacks and dumps them in the river anyway.” (22) This is an example of the negative examples of society. The family of the deceased are trusting Ossemburger with a beloved member of their family. Yet, Ossenburger betrays their trust by dumping the dead into...
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...teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and isn't to return home until after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's history paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Spencer so his teacher wouldn't feel bad about failing him in the subject. Holden returns to his dorm, which is quiet because most of the students are still at the football game. Wearing the new red hunting cap he bought in New York City, he begins re-reading a book (Out of Africa), but his distraction is temporary. First, his dorm neighbor Ackley disturbs him, although Holden is patient about it. Then later, Holden argues with his roommate Stradlater, who fails to appreciate a composition that Holden wrote for him about the baseball glove of Holden's late brother Allie. A womanizer, Stradlater has just returned from a date with Holden's old friend Jane Gallagher. Holden is distressed that Stradlater might have taken advantage of Jane. Stradlater doesn't appreciate Jane in the manner in which Holden does; Stradlater even refers to Jane as "Jean". The boys fight, and Stradlater wins easily. Fed up with Pencey Prep, Holden catches a train to New York City, where he plans to stay in a hotel until Wednesday, when his parents...
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...The Catcher in the Rye Hannah Genich Mr. Buzminski ENG 3U March 7, 2015 J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye demonstrated a typical Bildungsroman novel, showing that maturing is inevitable and ones life will go on. Holden Caulfield’s experiences allow his character to undergo permanent change that altered his perspectives on life. Salinger illustrated a Bildungsroman with emotional loss, life lessons learnt from encounters, and acceptance of ethics in society. Holden’s role as a developing character in Salinger’s novel demonstrated the elements used in a Bildungsroman. The first phase of a Bildungsroman involves an emotional loss, a period of awkwardness and typically ends with moral the growth of the protagonist. The emotional loss Holden experienced was the loss of his younger brother, Allie, who passed away from leukemia five years before the beginning of the novel. This event altered Holden’s psychological behavior. Holden still grieved from the passing of Allie and regretted the time he told Allie to leave him and Bobby alone. Holden reenacted that particular moment and tried to change the past: “Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby's house” (Salinger 99). Holden tried to comfort his depression by attempting to change the past through communication with his deceased brother. Due to Holden’s ongoing struggle to deal with this loss of Allie, he demonstrated traits of awkwardness in the form of cynicism. Holden’s mental state...
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...Madrigal Professor Hendricks English Composition 2 1 December 2014 Bibliography Salinger, J.D. “The Catcher in the Rye” Little, Brown and Company. Boston: 1945. This source is the actual book The Catcher in the Rye which was written by J.D. Salinger. He writes of a boy, Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is a troubled teenager who switches between having a pompous attitude and feeling as if he is superior to others and then being aware of being alienated from his peers, to beginning to protect his innocence and that of other people. He begins to isolate himself from others because he doesn’t want to get hurt after losing a little brother, Allie. Other students looked down upon him and that is why he has possibly developed a dislike for other people. At first his isolation is more negative than positive. Holden is kicked out of the third school due to having poor grades. After being kicked out of school, he goes on a journey filled with various incidents that cause him to make grown up decisions. The story is narrated in first-person by Holden from a psychiatric hospital where Holden is for treatment. A quotation I will be using in the book is “I am always saying ‘Glad to've met you’ to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though” (Salinger 87). Madrigal 2 “Catcher in the Rye the Alienation of Holden Caulfield” Humanities 360 Print. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014. Humanities 360...
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...the person looks at it. Holden Caulfield from the book The Catcher in the Rye, takes growing up as a difficult process. He likes to make things a burden to do. Holden makes becoming an adult more difficult by being self-centered, using vulgar language, and wanting the responsibilities of a child but being able to do what anything an adult could. Holden Caulfield struggles with growing up throughout the book as kid’s today struggle with similar social problems. Holden across the span of book worries about himself and no one else. He tends to push things away and fend for his own self, because he feels people are phonies, or just to fake to be with. Salinger writes “You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were” (Salinger126). Here holden quickly jumps to conclusion that everyone in the building are phonies, when he doesn’t even know anyone. Because Holden cannot place himself into other people shoes to consider their point of view or to hear what they have to say, he struggles connecting with anyone that isn’t already in relation with him. So instead he labels them as phonies. This is one of the many social issues that keep Holden from maturing and growing up to be an adult. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a cognitive neuroscientist from University College London, UK, found in one of her studies on decision making and the teenage brain, said “she has found that the...
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...In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden experiences difficult challenges in his daily life. He has no friends and thinks that the exhibits are humans. Holden enjoys seeing the exhibits and it would be the one place for Holden to go if he wanted everything the same during his childhood. That is what makes it so strange. The museum never changes and helps Holden escape from his reality life. “You could go there a hundred thousand times, and the Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish” (121). Holden liked knowing that the glass cases in the museum would never judge him from his mistakes in the real world. He visits the museum to escape from all the chaos in his life. He likes the glass cases that the museum places all their exhibits in. He desires to place parts of his life in glass cases because they won’t change. He decides not to go in the museum. He is afraid that the museum and Jane Gallagher has changed. Holden knows that if the museum has change, then it would hurt him, so he doesn’t enter. He remembers happiness and laughter when he was with his friends and family. Holden wishes to live a simple and uncomplicated life. “Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you’d be so much older or anything. It wouldn’t be that, exactly” (121). The Museum of Natural History symbolizes the world Holden would love to live in. For example, he says,“ The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything...
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...hardship at one point in our lives as it can help us mature and better ourselves. However, when the hardship comes from several different sources, it becomes hard to learn form the many experiences. This is demonstrated throughout the narrator’s life in J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher In the Rye. It is shown that: poor relations between an individual and their family impacts the individual’s ability to make good decisions. Secondly, when an individual is surrounded by deceiving people, their ability to socialize and network is hindered. Finally, the constant feeling of depression harms an individual well being, both physical and mental. Ultimately, the times of hardship that an individual experiences are shaped by the outside influences of: family, deceptive societies, and mental illnesses. Firstly, the narrator, Holden, his poor relationship with his family prevented him from making decisions that would benefit him. To begin with, Holden was always sent away to a private school during the working year. Naturally, this made him unable to Habibi 2 communicate as frequently with his parents. Although it may have seemed like a good idea to his parents, their absence is what moulded Holden’s conscience. As parents, they are their children’s role models and teachers, their main responsibility was to instill good morals into their children. Their absence caused Holden to be easily influenced by his peers and the pressure of society to do things that are irrational for...
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...It is a known fact that people who refuse to depend on those around them, have experienced, or are currently experiencing, a difficult time in their lives. The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year-old boy with a thirteen year-old mindset. While he struggles to find himself in society, he seems to have no problem isolating himself from those around him. Throughout J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, although Holden appears to live in a highly social environment and is afforded many opportunities to expand his “social circle”, his actions are best conveyed through the idea that when people feel they do not fit into the “norms” society has set for them, they tend to isolate themselves. The House on Mango...
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...adolescents have had to deal with the internal struggles while coming of age. J.D Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, applies literary devices and language patterns to develop the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his internal struggles and conflicts of maturing into adulthood. Salinger effectively uses Holden’s lies, language of depression, and flashbacks to accurately portray how teenagers often fear growing up, and feel the need to hang onto their innocence. Lying is an effective way for teenagers to hide their emotions and pretend to be someone they’re not, essentially testing the waters of maturity without taking the responsibility. Holden flees Pencey Prep School after being kicked out for failing the majority of his classes, and finds himself on a train sitting next to the mother of one of his classmates, on his way to New York City. Taking a liking to the woman, Holden begins to spin a web of lies. He tells her his name is Rudolf Schmidt and casually adds, “I have to have this operation… It isn’t very serious. I have this tiny little brain tumor on the brain… right near the outside”(58). This single lie entertains Holden, as he would rather talk about something that he has never experienced instead of being truthful about himself. He avoids taking on the responsibility of being mature enough to tell the truth about failing out of Pencey, including his decision to run away from his problems. With all the lying Holden has done, he has become quite skillful and creative...
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...Holden Caulfield is so lost in the world, he doesn’t even realize it. He doesn’t really want much. He craves just what every other human craves naturally. It’s a human’s nature to want somebody. To talk to, to care about, and to love. However, even in today’s world, people still struggle to find people who truly care about them. As sad as it sounds, it happens and this is why so many people relate to Holden. What separates Holden from the normal struggling teen is that Holden surrounds himself with phonies and fakes. Despite the illusion, this actually makes Holden’s situation worse. By surrounding himself with fake people, he makes himself feel like there are people who actually care about him, when in reality there’s no one. Fake friends like Carl Luce, fake relationships like Sally, and desperate acts of discussion with prostitutes slowly cripple his mental state. After Holden left Pencey, he immediately felt more alone. When he wasn’t constantly around people he started to feel a lot more lonely in a great city like New York. After nights full of drinking and over-thinking, he was finally approached by a pimp asking if he wanted to have some fun for the night. Clearly lost in thought and testosterone raging he agrees. When Sunny actually comes around however Holden realizes he doesn’t want someone to have sex with, but just someone to be with. Expecting some kind of compassion, he receives none, and winds up even more upset. Even worse for Holden is...
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...John Connolly said, “For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.” The author shows that there is no escaping juvenility nor adulthood, because it will always linger within one, demonstrating the oblivion of boyhood and being an adult. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a teenager named Holden is in constant conflict with adulthood and childhood. He quits school and runs away to hopefully mold himself into an adult. As Holden wanders through the city of phonies, he embarks new experiences, changing his way of thinking. Holden craves to become an adult, but his childhood pulls him back, which constantly deprives him of growing up. Salinger uses Holden to show the...
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...How to Avoid a Tragedy Tiger Woods, an elite professional American golfer, is one of the most successful and well-known athletes of all time. Regrettably, his well-earned fame and money got into his head a little too much, resulting in a huge turning point in Woods’ career. Thinking he didn’t have to follow the same guidelines as everyone else, Woods was caught having sexual affairs with other women, which placed the world’s eye onto him. He thought he was better and more special than everyone else, causing him to make thoughtless decisions. By the time he apologized and realized he was wrong, it was too late and from his mistake, he suffered through dissenting public attention, as well as the loss of millions of dollars from supporting commercial...
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