Holden and Charlie In both the novels Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Chbosky’s the perks of being a wallflower, the main characters Holden Caulfield and Charlie are troubled teens. Although they were teenagers in different time periods they shared many similar teenage difficulties. Both novels portray a male protagonist growing up while struggling to find his identity, while loathing their lives. Thus both novels are of the coming of age genre. Both boys are socially awkward and are not able
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Christopher McCandless, chronicled by biographer, Jon Krakauer, was a man who wanted to be independent of anything that society needed in order to find peace of mind and independence that comes from true solitude. You do not have to put your life at risk and go out to the godforsaken wild. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society”. I find that Emerson is trying to portray the message that one must ultimately focus on the thoughts
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“A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in everything”- Dr. Farrah Gray. In Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger Holden Caulfield constantly lies to emotionally keep people away. He is mentally damaged due to the death of his younger brother a few years ago. Holden is now in a mental hospital for a reason the readers do not know. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby, who works his way up in society, bringing the American dream to life. Gatsby lies about his past
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Most people recognize the titles of literary works such as To Kill A Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, and The Great Gatsby, which are considered classics. These works have been around long enough to gather literary acclaim and this has contributed to their widespread recognition. Charlotte Brontë’s coming of age novel, Jane Eyre, qualifies as a classic because it has been read in Literature classes and libraries around the world for the past one hundred and sixty years, proving it can withstand
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published in 1945, and The Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, and published in 2001, both focus on a teenage boy going on an adventure. The adventures each boy face are very different but also have many themes in common. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield gets kicked out of school and decides to stay in New York for a few days before the end of the semester, he discovers many things and has many new experiences. In The Life of Pi, while Pi and his family are moving to Canada from India by boat
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“It's not as bad as it sounds.” (Huckleberry Finn) Compare how the theme of outsiders is presented in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, D.B.C Pierre’s Vernon God Little and Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. Throughout the history of literature, the idea of an outsider unable to find his place within society is explored frequently in all three texts. The theme of the outsiders is presented in all novels but separated due to the different time periods in which they were set, thus resulting in controversy and
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After World War II, the earth had been shifted and changed to the point of no return. Huge industrial and military superpowers had almost all of the power. Russia and The United States had become the two most important and powerful countries in the late 1940’s. This set the stage for some of the most influential decades in modern history, not only on the political level, but in literature and how it affected aspects of life or Americans and Russians. During the 1940’s and 1950’s, the topical views
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through his characterization of Holden Caulfield is so potent that those details resonate even more for someone dealing with a similar internal struggle. When I read the book at 15, every sensory detail that Salinger described helped better illuminate part of my own internal struggle. The over exaggeration of the resentment of society as being in genuine really captured my own internal resentment for molds that people contrive themselves to fit. The one scene with Caulfield sitting in the bathtub depressed
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Lennon: One Day at a Time," his "10-year obsession with The Beatles congealed into a hatred of John Lennon in particular," Gaines explained. But the book that truly influenced him was "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger, and its protagonist, Holden Caulfield.”(Sloane, “Inside the mind of John Lennon's killer.” CNN). He then decided to kill John Lennon. He quit his job and went up to New York in October 1980. Mark David
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a vision of lonely human beings who fail to make contact, are isolated from each other and society, and ultimately feel abandoned by the universe. Tom, a writer who has left his mother and sister in order to pursue freedom and adventure, narrates a memory of his abandoned family. The memory is of St. Louis in 1937. Tom, his mother Amanda and his sister Laura are trying to make ends meet in a small tenement apartment. Tom’s father, a telephone repairman
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