Casciana Jayne Holden wasn’t born into your typical stereotype family, born on June 29th, 1989 moments before her identical twin sister Syria Nichole. Casciana was always the curious one, she was also a daddy’s girl while her twin was momma’s little angel the one that could never do no wrong. Casciana loved her sister more than anything, except she hated that their mother Nicole Marie Holden would always believe Syria over Casciana never really giving her the benefit of the doubt. It was what always caused Casciana to run in the other direction when she wanted something from one of her parents. She knew that her father would always give it to her no questions asked. Patrick Dean Holden wasn’t your normal man as what people would say about …show more content…
While Syria thought it was funny that Casciana was the one that did that, her mother hated it. Casciana would always find herself getting into trouble including in school while she applied herself and was a straight A student she had dreams of running away and just being with her father. The only person that understood her and the person she wanted to be. Elementary school and Middle school weren’t all that things were cracked up to be, Casciana had one real friend that was actually a friend and was always around including when Casciana just wanted to be left alone. She was that friend that just came and bugged the hell out of Casciana just to make sure she stopped closing herself off to people.
When high school came around at Casciana started growing more into a woman she began to experience changes in her body, things that she didn’t understand. She would start to forget things, she would misplace things and could never find them again. It wasn’t until she was 17 years old that her whole life changed and it wasn’t for the better. Casciana had become a completely new person, she stayed out all night, she partied, she stopped going to class, and when her father was home all she did was fight with him. Some would say that she was possessed by something, she would just laugh it off, but the truth was she was possessed, Casciana was slightly
The “Sunny Randall” series follows main character Sunny Randall, who is a female detective. She was created by Parker so that Helen Hunt would play her in a movie, but it never happened. He kept the series going because his publisher asked him to. Both Randall and Spenser (another Boston detective that was created by Parker) have things in common, but also things that make them unique. There are six novels to the series.
He’s left-handed. He wrote poems on his baseball mitt. He had red hair. He was nice, smart, and died of leukemia a few years prior. He doesn’t go into specifics or his whole life story; he doesn’t need to. All we need to know is that we “would have liked him.” When Holden’s little sister, Phoebe, discovers that Holden was kicked out of school again, she accuses him of not liking anything, to which he predictably responds with, “I like Allie.” When Phoebe clarifies that Allie is dead, Halden responds in hysterics, “I know he’s dead! Don’t you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can’t I? Just because somebody’s dead, you don’t just stop liking them, for God’s sake - especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that’re alive and all.” Holden still hasn’t entirely gotten over Allie’s death, and he probably never will. The one that he liked, the one person that he seemed to love more than any other, is dead. Nothing in life satisfies him, because nothing in life can fill that empty, depressed void within
A family is meant to keep a person safe, care for them, and is a group/person one can share their feelings to, it is an important part of their life. This is the opposite to Holden, as Holden’s family is not big part in his life, however, they are on one of the reasons that Holden isolates himself from the public. He does not speak much about his parents as he is very distant from them. But after the loss of Allie, their youngest child, it drove Mrs. Caufield to a nervous state of exhaustion, causing her to lose sleep and to chain smoke. After Holden gets expelled from Pencey Prep, he knows his parents are going to get a letter from the school indicating his expulsion and he knows how his mother will react so he decides to stay behind and arrive
Holden is sorry for his older brother D.B. who supposedly is a prostitute in Hollywood meaning he sold himself to write for big companies, so his creative juices have halted and formed into a uniformed generic cliche script. I believe this cold and sorriness towards his older brother is the fact that he could not stop him from getting bought by Hollywood producers and that the change that was occurring amiss Holden was unstoppable because he thought so greatly of
Because of this, Holden doesn’t attain a strong, healthy relationship with his parents, causing him to go on a path of self-destruction. He has little control over his actions, which has caused him to get expelled from his school, and is now roaming the New York streets by his
She knows that Holden is not the best person but she tries hard to encourage him to be happy and responsible. The fact that she cares so much about him and is worried shows that she is very emotional for a child. Holden also mentions this when he says “The only trouble is , she’s a little too affectionate sometimes. She’s very emotional , for a child.
Holden worry of what his parents are going to do after they find out, he
The Catcher in the Rye: Holden’s Impulsive Actions from Pain Anger is a symptom of pain. The emotional pain from the unfortunate, early death of Holden’s younger brother Allie causes Holden’s mental downward spiral as he attempts to seek comfort. When Allie dies, Holden reacts irrationally.
Holden is a middle child being the second born out of his four siblings. This does not dictate or predetermine how his life will be like but it can play a large role in how he fits into his family. He greatly respects his older brother DB which can be gathered when he says that his brother is his favorite author but also criticized him and deems him a phony for having a career out in hollywood. This can also be taken as jealousy as some children might have of their older siblings who seem more successful in life. While he loves his older brother there is an underlying resentment because he might be pressured to follow in his brother’s footsteps but instead rebels. While Holden tells the story in a higher than thou sort of way you can see moments of weakness and insecurity when he puts himself down by saying things like “in the
Here, Holden desperately wants to escape the phony, corrupt world, so he proclaims his love to her, and asks her to runaway with him. She tells him that he is crazy and leaves him.
In a typical family with multiple siblings, the dynamics seem to have a certain pattern. The relationships between siblings vary depending on order of birth. Many times the older siblings will seemingly play the role of “second parents”. Another pattern that is often found in such families, is the closer in age, the closer the relationship between the siblings. According to the book, Allie would have been the closest sibling to Holden’s age, yet Holden would have still felt protective of him as an older brother. While not rational, (as grief seldom tends to be), Allie’s death, though unpreventable, may have still left Holden feeling abandoned by his younger brother.
When the reader looks back at Holden’s history they can make assumptions as to why Holden wants things to stay the way they are. The general assumption would be because Holden is very distant to people who are dear to him. He mentions his younger sister, Phoebe frequently but cannot connect with her in any way due to Holden’s enrollment in a relatively distant school. Holden also recalls his two brothers, Allie and D.B., whom he is exiled from in result of Allie’s tragic fate and D.B.’s migration to California. The death of Holden’s favorite person, Allie, results ultimately in the unstable mental condition that controls Holden. Holden’s fascination with children and their mentalities is driven from Holden’s mourning of Allie’s death. While Holden tries to resist changing, he is identifying himself with Allie. Critic, Hermit Vanderbilt, agrees that, “Obviously despairing at the cosmic injustice of such an early death, Holden falls into a schizophrenic disorder interested in keeping him from growing up and keeping the role of Allie alive.” (Vanderbilt 299). In addition to the laments of personal loss, Holden also desires a stagnancy of time because of his fear of losing his moral purity. This is shown when Holden speaks about how his older brother, D.B., has lost his moral standards in the pursuit of fame. Holden feels D.B. has strayed far from his truly respectable writing when D.B. “sold himself out” to the expectations of Hollywood. Holden refers to D.B. as a
Holden never called his parents instead he thinks about calling his sister, Phoebe, but then he realizes “the trouble was she wouldn’t’ve been the one to answer the phone” (59), his parents would be the ones to answer. Holden’s excuse for not seeing his parents because he got kicked out school, but Holden doesn’t like his parents because he thinks that they don’t love him. That makes it hard for him to talk about his feelings because he doesn’t feel like anyone who doesn’t love him wouldn’t understand what he is going through. Holden doesn’t even ends up calling his friends not even Sally Hayes, but he doesn’t call her because he “was afraid her mother would answer the phone. Her mother knew my mother” (59).
In Faust: Part One, Goethe presents the rebirth of Faust as an individual, reflecting the significance of Easter and Romanticism. This is emphasized in Part One through Faust’s subjective introspective journey being juxtaposed with the holiday of Easter, a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Christian savior and Son of God. Easter is significant in Faust because it is symbolic of the path to revitalization and an affirmation of life. Yet this is problematized by the fact that temptations and evil lie in wait, as manifested by Mephistopheles, even on roads of redemption. However, it is ultimately steadfastness to this metaphorical path, Goethe argues, by which Romantic virtues like love may conquer Enlightenment values that
The first time I ever saw Holden was in the third grade. We met at the Ancient Egypt exhibition in the American Museum of Natural History. And ever since that day we made it a tradition to go to the museum every Saturday at 12 o'clock. It was my favorite part of the week. Until one day on July 18, 1946, Holden called and canceled. Ever since that day we didn’t see each other as often as we used to. He only came over the last day of summer to tell me he would be sent off to boarding school. I never knew why he stopped wanting to hang out, but I always suspected it was because of Allie's death. Holden and Allie were the closest siblings I had ever met.