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Mentors In Catcher In The Rye

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Adult mentors are supposed to give advice and help teenagers and people younger than them. Some of them give good advice that helps the person and they take this advice and run with it to meet their potential. On the other hand some mentors give good advice but cannot relate to the teenager and so it is not effective and they just carry on doing what they were doing in the first place. In Catcher in the Rye and “Good Will Hunting” the protagonists have mentors that help them in varying degrees. Will and Holden both have mentors that help them and affect their life for the better. For Will it is Sean who gets through to Will and helps him turn around his life. For Holden it is Mr. Antolini who gives him advice that starts him down the right path. These mentors connect with Will or Holden by “speaking their language”. Sean combines things …show more content…

Will did not connect with Dr. Lambeau because all Lambeau wanted was for Will to be a Math Genious. Holden also had a teacher, Old Spencer, try to get him to change his life but like Will the advice was to get his school work better and Holden didn’t want to hear that. Dr. Lambeau and Old Spencer both don’t connect with the protagonists and try to push them into school but neither want that so they both ignore the mentor. These mentors could not connect with Will or Holden which probably put their recovery backwards and hurt them more than it helped them. In Catcher in the Rye and “Good Will Hunting” the protagonists both have mentors that help them in varying degrees. Will’s mentor Sean really connects with him unlike Dr. Lambeau who doesn’t connect and pushes Will away. Holden’s mentor Mr. Antolini really helps him but Old Spencer is just ignored by Holden. Good mentors really help young teenagers deal with problems and get ready for life but bad ones can sometimes make the problem even

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