...In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Sallinger and The Young Elites by Marie Lu, Adelina and Holden have very intense mental states which leads to the motif of isolation within the novel. Adelina is a young girl who is living a happy life, when suddenly a blood fever emerges and she becomes infected. Adelina survives but becomes a malfetto, causing her father to not love her anymore. Adelina despises her father, therefore, her bottled up hatres causes her to hate herself, which then leads to her isolation, “Perhaps I was as selfish as my father” (Lu 5), Marie Lu uses a simile to compare Adelina with her father and create an image in the reader’s mind. The reader associates Adelina’s acts with her father’s and learns her further hatred for her father. The use of the word “selfish” has a negative connotation to it which causes the reader to have a negative image of Adelina’s father, and it sets the hateful tone in Adelina’s narration. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is also a normal boy -like Adelina- who faces...
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...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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...Rye by J.D Saligner, a high school student named Holden Caulfield loses his younger brother Allie to Leukemia. This leads to his depression and grief. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger uses multiple symbols to show Holden’s depression. In the following examples:the red hunting hat, a record called “Little Shirley Beans”, and the ducks from the Central Park It becomes clear to us that Holden Caulfied suffers from depression. Depression can emerge from a death of a loved one. The death of Holden’s little brother Allie took a big toll on him, causing him to drop out of school, feeling depressed as well as isolating himself from everyone. A symptom of depression is to be isolate one’s self...
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...who is supernaturally transported to a tangent universe, guided by a ghost, Frank, in which his actions determine the future of the normal universe. In both the book and the novel, the ironic nature of societal seclusion being self-inflicted shown through the rejection of society by the protagonists themselves, both works are able to reinforce the universality of teen discord. Although there is trust to be found in adults, superficiality is present in the mass majority of the adult society. This phoniness amongst adults is present in both the book and the movie ultimately which contributes to the prevalence of distrust amongst the adolescent protagonists. Their self-instigated alienation and hypocritical fallacies is what allows them to perceive the world for what it is, superficial. However, this hypocritical insight conversely further pushes them into the world of superficiality. Both works suggest phoniness is an inevitable part of adulthood. An individual’s reluctance to conform to society’s phony values allows for an ideological...
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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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...In Holden's point of view, phonies are those people who lack innocence, have already matured, and left childhood. It stands as the foundation of everything that’s wrong in the world around him. When examining Holden's choice of diction, he over uses the word "phony”. In each situation, the reader can see that the word is used in certain context, typically connected with adults, society, and ranges of lifestyles. For example, Holden is continually surrounded by grown-ups and it "just kills” him. Throughout the novel, he confronts many characters who seem negativity affected or superficial—Sally Hayes, Maurice, Carl Luce, Sunny, and Mr. Spencer. Holden often spends all of his time and energy criticizing others for being phoniness, yet he never came to the realization that he possess that very same traits. At various times in the novel, he tells pointless lies, claims to agree with ideas he strongly disagrees with and goes out with girls he has no feelings of intimacy towards, all to try to feel less isolated. His thoughts are generally absurd and cruel and even came to terms that he is a compulsive liar. For example, on the train to New York, he initiates a harsh and unnecessary prank on Mrs. Morrow. He thinks Mr.Morrow is a phony and thinks "That guy was as sensitive as a toilet seat."(Salinger 23). One of Holden's biggest complaints are the movies because they imitate...
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...taxi. Asks cabbie about where the the Central Park ducks go during the winter. Checks in at the Edmont Hotel. Holden calls Faith Cavendish Goes to the Lavender Room. Meets Marty, Laverne, and Bernice Kregs. Dances with them and they stick him with the check. Leaves the Lavender Room. Wants to call Jane Gallagher but doesn't. Grabs a taxi to Ernie's in Greenwich Village. Asks cabbie (Horowitz) about the Central Park ducks. Holden at Ernie's, which is full of jerks. Meets D.B's ex girlfriend Lillian Simmons Holden walks two miles back to the Edmont hotel. At the hotel he meets the elevator operator, Ernie. Ernie offers to set Holden up with a prostitute for five dollars. Sunny, the prostitute arrives at Holden's room. Holden pays the five dollars just to talk. Sunny leaves. Holden...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permissions@hbgusa.com. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. For Isabella and Calista Stone When you are eighty years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. —Jeff Bezos, commencement speech at Princeton University, May 30, 2010 Prologue In the early 1970s, an industrious advertising executive named Julie Ray became fascinated with an unconventional public-school program for gifted children in Houston, Texas. Her son was among the first students enrolled in what would later be called the Vanguard program, which stoked creativity and independence in its students and nurtured expansive, outside-the-box thinking. Ray grew so enamored with the curriculum and the community of enthusiastic teachers and parents that she set out to research similar schools around the state with an eye toward writing a book about Texas’s fledgling gifted-education movement. A few years later, after her son had moved on to junior high, Ray returned to tour the program, nestled in a wing of River Oaks Elementary School, west of downtown Houston. The school’s principal chose a student to accompany her on the visit, an articulate, sandy-haired sixth-grader whose parents asked only that his real name not be used in print....
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