Symbolism In J. D. Salinger

In the poem, “A Hymn to Childhood,” Li-Young Lee talks about having fragmented individuality from childhood due to war. He is lost in perception of a traumatic childhood caused by war and a normal naïve childhood. Lee depicts the two diverged childhoods from his memory through the use of antithesis to emphasize the world perceived by a self fragmented individual. Throughout the poem, he consistently presents two opposing ideas to show what it feels like to grow up with emotional trauma. He descriptively tells the readers he grew up in a state of chaos due to war and that he did not have a peaceful childhood compared to normal kids.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye a teenager, Holden Caulfield, faced many problems at a young age, such as his brother’s, Allie’s, death and being kicked out of schools. As these events occur, Holden is conflicted between choosing childhood and adulthood. However, no one can choose between childhood or adulthood, but Holden feels like he must. The death of his brother leads Holden to believe he should be strong and mature.

How much can the death of a loved one really take from us? In the novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger is about a boy named Holden Caulfield who is deeply affected by the death of his brother Allie but also has a problem with accepting the fact that he soon has to enter adulthood. The novel explains his idea of the world and what he feels his purpose is in it. I think that this novel relates to teens today a lot because most teen that don 't know what they want to do, the thought of them getting older and becoming an adult scares them. Just like teens today Holden just wants someone to hear him out and understand what he’s feeling but at the same time he feels like explaining his feelings is useless.

Rudolfo Anaya clearly points that out in his novel Bless Me, Ultima with the main protagonist Tony. From this, Anaya reveals that childhood is filled with disorientation and awareness with the main protagonist Tony, experiencing death. All of these deaths helped Tony grow more and looking back at the death of Lupito, Narciso, and Florence, they were events that confused him or made him more aware of life. Anaya shows people that childhood is filled with many moments that everyone cannot pinpoint exactly. With Tony, he certainly wants to forget his childhood, but he also keeps it in order to remind himself of what made him Tony.

Life’s what you make it Can you imagine not being able to choose whether or not you want to be a part of a life filled with violence? Some people are just sucked into it because of choices other people make. For instance, Geoffrey Canada’s mom moved him & his three brothers into to the south Bronx where the journey of violence then began. In the memoir Fist Stick Knife Gun the narrator Geoffrey Canada goes through a series of events that eventually influences him to become the man he is today. Geoffrey Continues to reflect on his experiences and shows how he learned from them being that he grew up very poorly compared to an average kid in a rough neighborhood in the south Bronx where he went through a number of life-changing or eye

‘The Divine Wind’ written by Garry Disher, is a novel that explores the lives of many individuals as they face a time of hardship through war and conflict. Hart, the main protagonist of the book, develops several relationships along the way, the majority unfortunately ruined by his personal insecurities. Hart loses the friendship of his two close friends, Mitsy Sennosuke and Alice Penrose, causing him to feel alone and ‘friendless’ for some time. Consequently, he resorts to becoming friends with Jamie Killian, despite the fact that he didn’t get along well with him. Hart’s mother and father share a similar situation- a strained friendship due to individual insecurities.

Noah decides to stay in their home town. As they are moving they go through a lot of hardships and lose some family members, because the move was too rough on them. The book has a theme of endurance that applies to many characters, especially the main one, Tom Joad. I explored the theme of the character Ma Joad. In the beginning of the book, Ma Joad is not the one that makes the decisions, Pa Joad is.

The way we treat others is greatly affected by our life experience and what we go through regularly. When life is difficult it can be hard to see all that's good around us. A character that portrays this greatly is Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol". Growing up he was often alone and whenever someone came into his life, they left him. As he aged he became more bitter and cross with world.

In my opinion people can face their own war by events in their life. These stories actually face their individual “war”. In “Scarlet Ibis” the war that is faced is when the family gets a son that can 't walk or do many things excepted. The family has two parents and one child,which is a boy, until the other boy comes along. The family has a hard time at first with their son not being able to do many things.

This was his start to find justice. Oedipus is trying to find out what really had happened with his parents and why had they had abandoned him at such a young age. On his way to find justice he encounters many problems that made it harder for him. One of the characteristics that troubled him on his road to find justice. He had this habit of not

To begin with, Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s lives were filled with misfortune, misery, and abuse. In addition to this, the brothers also went through their own form of hardship while living with their parents. Geoffrey, who lived with his father and Tobias, living with his mother. With this in mind, I will compare and contrast the central conflict behind their family issues and apply it to their work. In other words, compare Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff’s childhood and look at how it impacted them as adults.

Truman Capote wrote the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood with the accounts from the murderers and investigators of the Clutter family. As Capote grew up, he found himself neglected by his mother and father. Because his mother and father often neglected him, he spent much of his young life with his mother’s relatives. While Capote was young, his mother often made fun of him for being “different” than other children. Although Capote faced many hardships throughout his early life, he was able to overcome them and attain a successful writing career.

The creek is what separated him from his remaining family, Then Character vs. Self comes in when Puck has to weigh his options and decide whether crossing the creek and seeing his family is truly worth risking his life. The last literary element wa the theme. I found that the theme of the book is that family plays an important role emotionally in someone’s life. Puck, as well as Ranger and Sabine all found that once they were separated from the ones they love, it took a large toll on them emotionally. Puck especially was impacted the most by the loss of his mother and the separation from his family.

Living through a significantly rough time period can be difficult on the families trying to raise one at this time, but if you live though to tell the stories it’s absolutely astonishing. My grandfather, Roger O. Schafer lived through The Great Depression, WWII, also served in the Korean war. All the memories and stories my grandpa has are mind blowing, along with saddening to thinking what my grandpa had to live through along with many other civilians trying to survive. There were many responsibilities my grandfather had to learn quickly to help his family during the depression. Sense my grandpa had to encounter many different tragic times within his lifetime, I believe he’s a better knowledgable, successful individual.

Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt rendering his childhood and hardships he faced while growing up. McCourt’s family suffered greatly because of poverty and from moving to America, only to return back to Ireland a short time later. McCourt’s father, Malachy, suffers from a disease of alcoholism and incapability to hold a job long enough to provide for his family. Malachy’s flaws of being an alcoholic and neglectful tendencies feed the troublesome relationship he has with McCourt. McCourt and Malachy have a unusual relationship.