The Catcher In The Rye 'And John Knowles' A Separate Peace

A Separate Peace is a fictional book written by John Knowles that takes place in the early 1940s in New Hampshire at the Devon school. High school boys attend Devon to prepare for the war physically and mentally. Gene, a graduate from Devon, returns to the school to visit two specific places. Flashing back to his summer session and fall term as a senior, Gene recalls all of the competitive moments he experiences. Both the good and the tragic memories he mentions include him and his friends.

Bradbury uses censorship as the theme of the novel. The government tries to control every aspect of people’s lives. Bradbury tries to tell us that this government has a lot of power. He shows us through the quote “Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin” (Bradbury 15).

Holden´s Behavior Holden Caulfield is a teenager growing up in 1950’s America. He has been through an ordeal, both physically and mentally, and is going through a pivotal time in his life, arguably caused by the death of his brother, Allie, only a few short years before. Holden runs away from his school, Pencey Prep, and wanders around New York for the vast majority of the story. During this journey, he is faced with the fact that he must grow up, something he does not take lightly. While it may be noted that Holden Caulfield wasn’t quite able to express himself through practical means, his thought processes can be surmised as identical to those of the typical teenager.

The early 1900s was an era when homosexuality was denounced socially, as it was unlawful for majority of the world including the United States of America. Authors were cautious when discussing themes of homosexuality that did not conform with public opinion. Scott Fitzgerald’s wit and cleverness, were instrumental in showcasing the underlying theme of homosexuality without certifying it. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, protagonist Nick Carraway consistently possesses characteristics of a homosexual, through his adoration of Jay Gatsby, homosexual encounters and his apathy towards females.

John Joseph Powell once wrote, “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” This ties into the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. This novel is set in the 1950s. Holden Caulfield, the narrator, is a teenage boy who has gone to, and been kicked out of many boarding schools. After failing 4 out of 5 classes at Pencey Prep, he was kicked out.

For are summer reading essay you have asked us to write about our books I have chosen to write about the boy in the striped pajamas the main characters our shmuel and Bruno shmuel is a young polish Jew who is thrown into a concentration camp or a death camp as they called it Bruno is a young kid born under a powerful man in the camps he gets a promotion so they move to Poland for his dad 's promotion his dad is now a general so Bruno is is now living in this small house right beside and giant fence and he has no idea that what the fence really is is the concentration camp so some time passes and Bruno feels like he is going to go crazy if he doesn 't want do something soon so he goes exploring when exploring this long never ending fence he sees this boy on the other side and sees he is wearing striped pajamas and a striped hat when he gets closer he sees that he is wearing a gold wristband with a star ( the Star of David ) the two boys begin talking and figure out they both share a birthday they talk almost everyday for a month then one day when Bruno walks into the kitchen he sees shmuel cleaning his glasses for his father 's birthday celebration the two boys being to play together and talk then Bruno offers shmuel a piece of chicken the co general walks in and sees what is happening he ask what 's going on here and shmuel says he gave it to me were friends and when the general asked Bruno if this was true Bruno said I 've never seen that kid before shmuel then gets really

In “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin wrote a different type coming of age story. At the end of the story the narrator finally develops a new understanding for his brother, and forgives him. The story’s narrator is a black algebra teacher, whose name is never revealed, who is living in Harlem, a New York City neighborhood. In the beginning of the story the narrator reads about his brother, Sonny, being busted with heroin in the newspaper.

Ordinary People is a novel telling a story of an American family and their struggles after the family’s oldest son dies. It was written by Judith Guest (born 1936) and was first published in 1976. The main character of the story is the younger son of the family, Conrad, who’s a junior in high school. After his brother’s death Conrad gets deeply depressed and tries to take his own life.

The mere idea about removing this word from “Huckleberry Fin” is preposterous. By removing the word nigger, we are removing the whole meaning of the book. We are removing the reason and the effect Mark Twain was trying to laminate. He was trying to teach people the history behind this offensive word and how powerful a single word can be. As stated in the article, “In Defense of a Loaded Word,” the author said, “’Nigger is border, the signpost that reminds us that the old crimes don’t disappear.”

Since it was said that the states voluntarily joined the union, they could devide that the federal government went over its borders and pick and choose what federal laws they want to follow (United States History 1). The Alien and Sedition Acts severely detracted from natural rights, such as the freedom of speech. When the first ten amendments were ratified, citizens were promised the freedom of speech, allowing all humans to give their opinion about the government without punishment. The Alien and Sedition Acts, however, prohibited anybody from speaking negatively about the government. Berns, an American constitutional law and political philosophy

No piece of literature should ever be ban : Of Mice and Men should not be ban from young adults and libraries. The literature classic promotes good life lessons for students to learn from such as friendship and motivation. Simply banning the book would contradict the right of free press under the first amendment of the constitutions. The book also provides a considerable amount of historical context. Even though the book contains a tremendous amount of racism , sexism , and vulgar language , in today’s media , we are exposed to a similar content.

Censorship is a common theme in both books and movies today. The novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and the film, Equilibrium, are no exception. Censorship is the regulation and control of information viewed as unacceptable by a person or group. Censorship is often used to hide information from the general public in order to enforce their ideology and to prevent people from becoming educated on a topic to form their own opinions (Definitions of Censorship, n.d.). This creates a large difference in social stratification between people in power and the rest of society which is why it holds so much power.

1984: An Unfortunate Banning What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie, British-Indian author (1947-)