to leave childhood. Holden Caulfield is a troubled character who regularly finds conflict with others and himself during adolescence. In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger argues that Holden struggles to complete the transition from childhood to adulthood, yet never fully completes that transition. This is displayed through his childish behavior, immature language, and enduring symbols. Salinger uses Holden’s childish character to display his attachment to childhood. Holden is expelled at every
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A contributing factor for Holden to have these violent outbursts is that he is emotionally unstable. The possible disorder that can explain his emotions instability is Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD, is a serious mental disorder marked by a pattern of ongoing instability in moods, behavior, self-image, and functioning. According to the article, “What Is The Cause For The Emotionally Unstable Borderline Personality Disorder?" from TheBorderlineTreatment.com
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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
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Student name: ________________________________ Student ID _______________________ York University Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies School of Administrative Studies AP/ADMS 4250 Marketing Strategy, Fall 2013 Instructor: A. Rusetski, Ph.D. EXAM 1: Case AP/ADMS 4250 Marketing Strategy Exam 1 Page 1 of 7 FIAT RETURNS TO CANADA1 A.RUSETSKI, PH.D F IGURE 1: A 2011 FIAT 500 On March 18, 2011 two hundred strange looking tiny cars lined up on
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Throughout the novel, Holden seems to be excluded from and victimized by the world around him. As he says to Mr. Spencer, he feels trapped on “the other side” of life, and he continually attempts to find himself in the world, even though he feels as if he does not belong. As the novel continues, it becomes transparent that Holden’s alienation is his way of protecting himself, as stated, “The way I wore it, I swung the old peak way around to the back, very corny…I liked the way it looked” (Sallinger
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to tell to Holden is that he should care about school because it is very important and that he is “riding for - it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling” (243). This goes back to Castle who falls to his death and Antolini is basically saying that if Holden would keep on falling and not try to stop it then he will die. Furthermore, Antolini tells Holden that he clearly sees Holden “dying nobly
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and The Rye shows lots of points leading towards Holdens depression. Holden lost his brother allie and that is what really brought holden down. Holden’s teacher Mr. Antolini Tries to point holden in the right and tell him that the path he is taking is wrong. He tells holden that seeing life as corrupt is no good and brings bad relationships with evrything. Mr. Antolini attempts to help Holden to prevent his “great fall” as he states,“the
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Literary Analysis of “Paul’s Case”: by Willa Cather Paul, the protagonist, suffers from a common problem that all adolescents have experienced at one time or another past or present that of being different from their peers and not feeling like they have been dealt a fair hand in life. “They made for him a part of the ugliness of the world, of the ache in head, and the bitter burning on his tongue” (Cather, par. 63). Paul’s failure to conform results in a flair of individuality that alienates
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Allie’s baseball mitt. Allie’s baseball mitt unearths a different side of Holden that not many people see; however, this is a difficult side of Holden to see because of how little he shows it. To understand why Holden is so attached to Allie’s old baseball mitt, the should first know who Allie was, and why he is so important to Holden. Allie was Holden’s younger brother who, at a young age, passed away from leukemia. Allie and Holden had been close when they were growing up; therefore,
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“A&P,” a short story by John Updike, consists of interlacing conflicts which lead to the single most important conflict in a teenager’s life: not knowing the unknown. These conflicts develop through the use of foreshadowing and flashbacks that lead to the character departure from the A&P. The author uses a first person view of a working teenager, who struggles to escape the social classes and the burdens of expectations from society and his peers as he in order to become more in charge of his life
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