Over the course of the whole story the author is making this a story about a young teenage boy in the strange ages between being a child and a adult and how he feels like he doesn’t fit in with many people because “they’re too phony”. The author’s reasoning for writing the novel the way he did was because he wanted to let all the teens going through that awkward time in between the transition of becoming an adult from a child that they are not alone, no matter how lonely or lost they may feel that they can find something to relate to in Holden Caulfield and see what are the consequences of his actions and allow us to learn from them and prevent them. First, the author shows how holden thinks he is different from others such
In this novel, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is the narrator that goes through a variety of problems. He has dilemmas, but meets/reconnects with people on his quest of life. This novel is more than just a simple story about a protagonist and his life events. This novel follows the structure of bildungsroman. There are four parts to it- character’s growth in social structure, a form of loss, process of maturity, and if the character ends in a new place of society.
Holden making the essay about his brother Allie and his baseball glove was one of the many examples that Holden care and was feeling depressed because he explains the meaning of Allies glove and how “ it made
Throughout the rest of the book Knowles keeps stating Gene’s thoughts of regret andFinny’s disbelief of the situation. In a true friendship, if one was feeling a great amount jealousy,one would most likely talk it through or at least think through the situation instead of trying tocause physical harm to them. Once summer session is over, Brinker Hadley comes into the two boys room unaware ofFinny’s return and asks Gene if he is ready to enlist which they talked about prior to Finny’sreturn. Finny who wanted nothing more to be able to enlist was thinking about losing his bestfriend but reacted differently. He kind of shook it off and went to shower.
As well as Blanche lies and her mental state slopes downhill, Blanche has another issue which is also a factor as to why she is the way she is. From the time Blanche was a young teenager, when she married her husband at the age of sixteen, to her current self, she has had many issues with men. The first issue is that she married young and found something out that pushed her to make her do things she later regretted. “... A widow of a homosexual husband…”(House22)
Salinger, Holden Caulfield is kicked out of Pencey University because of his inability to show initiative in his schoolwork. After receiving the news that he must leave, Holden visits his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, in order to say goodbye. During their conversation, Mr. Spencer tells Holden, "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules" (Salinger). After hearing that, Holden does not agree because he recognizes that life's game is an unfair one, one that is rigged and where one can easily have a better chance at winning than another.
Again, I know he probably didn’t mean it that way or intend for it to be taken that way but being someone who has personally been there I did not put myself in that situation and I didn’t want to be there, and I certainly didn’t know how to change the outcome at the time. As a child I didn’t know what was right or wrong and yes, I guess you can say my own parent made me a victim without realizing or knowing so, but as a child I myself didn’t. So inconclusion I do not agree that everyone is a victim, nor do I think every makes themselves victims. Maybe most or maybe even some but not
Holden on Phonies Holden Caulfield constantly contradicts himself in the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, this is best seen on his views towards phonies and he himself unknowingly being a phony. Throughout the book Holden mentions the phrase phonies several times as a way to describe someone who is fake, hypocritical, or pretentious. For instance, Holden thinks that Mr. Haas, the headmaster at Pency, was the most “phoniest bastard” he has ever met; Mr. Haas always puts on a act when he’s meeting parents (21). When people are phony it “drives [him] crazy” because he just wants people to be real (21).
“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood” by Louise J. Kaplan. Holden and Charlie both live in a precarious time of adolescence and need to grab hold of their life in some way. Both are trying to make better sense of the world around them .The existence of adolescence in the catcher in the rye and the perks of being a wallflower are constructed through the examination of innocence, phoniness and isolation. Firstly, the catcher in the rye and the perks of being a wallflower demonstrates Holden’s
“Why didn’t you pay it before?” “ I was pretty sick about that. I waited too long to help another man”(6). This ending was not expected in the beginning, however there was a little of foreshadowing towards it. One example of it is when the teacher made a rude comment and no one stood up for him just a few tears from his crush.
He explains how he overcame his way of keeping his secret of how he was dyslexic, which he didn’t found out till college about after a friend was explains his situation, “ A friend of mine had just been diagnosed with dyslexia and was describing…. the problem I was having.” (Cook 159) Cook exclaims many reasons and information about dyslexia in his essay which he stating, “Dyslexics learn to read, but they are never fully fluent.” (Cook 159)
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Danny, for example, comes out to his father about wanting to study psychology. Reb Saunders also realizes the damage he has done by raising Danny in silence, and starts talking to him to try to rebuild that relationship. On the flip side, I believe that the novel did not take place in an appropriate setting. The Chosen took place in Brooklyn, New York.
He was so disgusted by what he had just read that he could not think about having to talk about it for an hour and fifteen minutes. However, his perception of the Nacirema people did change upon gathering into groups and talking about the events that were described by Miner. As the student worked with his group members on tasks assigned by the instructor of the class he began to relate the, once thought, inhumane acts described by Miner, to events and practices that he and his fellow Americans willingly do throughout their lives. However, that connection seemed to be too farfetched in the readers mind, so he opted out of sharing it with his group members. To the students surprise, the professor later revealed to the class that the word Nacirema was simply America written backwards.
Holden mentions the possibility that he was going to be psychoanalyzed just after the passing of his brother. However, he explains that he did not receive treatment at that stage of his life. While writing down his thoughts for the novel Holden is simultaneously being psychoanalyzed. On the first page of the novel, Holden says, “[...] I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy”(1). Holden is referring to being in a place in which he is psychoanalyzed, several years after the death of his brother.