Bright Lines Identity

In the controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger expresses his opinion on social problems. The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a troubled teen; he seeks help throughout the novel. Holden has been in and out of schools and can not seem to fit in. Holden has depression and turns to alcohol for all his problems due to the lack of love in his life. No one understood what he was going through which caused him to almost kill himself. J.D. Salinger uses Holden to protest society’s problems.

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” This book is Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys. The genre of this book is historical fiction. The book is about a 13-year-old girl, Lina, and her family. They are a Jewish family at the time of the Nazi’s. This was not a very good time in Lina, her brother, or her mom’s life. All of a sudden Lina and her family find themselves on a railroad cattle car and they don’t know where they are going or where their dad is. On the cattle car, Lina meets a cute boy her age named Andrius who is trying to find his dad, also. Lina and Andrius go and try to find their dads. Lina finder hers, but Andrius comes up empty-handed. When they get off the cattle car, which is 1 year later, Lina is split up from her dad, so she has to work to try to find him again but then she finds out he is dead. Lina gets out of the camp they are in and her and Andrius get married. In the book Between Shades Of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys Lina is courageous, determined, and loving.

Between Shades of Gray takes place in 1941, when fifteen-year-old Lina and her family are precipitously taken away from their home in Lithuania by the Soviet Union and transported to a Siberian labor camp. The long and horrific train ride to Siberia is pervaded with barbarity, and once the prisoners arrive, they are only faced with more cruelty. Lina, a gifted artist, records her experience in drawings kept hidden from the cruel guards, as she documents her struggles to keep faith in humanity.

Marshall Gillette Mr. Pelster English 2 9 December 2016 The Inevitable Every person, at some point in their life, has to grow up. Eventually everybody learns to deal with the fact that they have to grow up. In The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. Salinger creates multiple images of how Holden, the main character, can’t deal with the reality of growing up, which ends up spiraling his life out of control. Life is all about learning to deal with changes, a skill that Holden has yet to learn.

It is a well known fact that Hitler killed nearly 11 million people in the holocaust, yet few seem to realize that Josef Stalin killed nearly 9 million more in WWII. Many did not know of the horrors until author Ruta Sepetys wrote “Between shades of Gray”. A book about the fifteen year old Lithuanian girl, Lina, who was taken by the secret police along with her mother and brother. This book follows her journey through the real life trauma thousands of others went through. After Lina was taken from her home she was moved to a beet farm in Siberia. Later she and the rest of her family were re-located to a new camp in the freezing cold of the arctic circle. Millions of people died in World War Two. But there were thousands who were forced to keep secret about the traumatic events they lived through in the second world war.

“That Evening Sun” by William Faulkner is a good example of a great emotional turmoil transferred directly to the readers through the words of a narrator who does not seem to grasp the severity of the turmoil. It is a story of an African American laundress who lives in the fear of her common-law husband Jesus who suspects her of carrying a white man's child in her womb and seems hell bent on killing her.

George Will utilizes an iconoclastic look upon Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. Will portrays Holden as a classical example of an American whiner. Holden represented the generation of the 1950’s and the struggles endured by the invisible shackles of social pressure. Will calls Holden out on his ever-so-present division of people into “phonies” and the “phoniness” evident in them. Holden is portrayed as an insufferable teenager who complains too much. However, Will does not explain the circumstances, nor the situations that Holden has had to endure throughout his life. Therefore, I do not agree with Will’s evaluation of Holden.

The novel “Women With Big Eyes” is a cultural novel, based on the lives of Mexican women and different experiences they had with the culture they were born into. This novel also goes into the depth of not only the cultural influences in women’s lives, but the different aspects that basically create the aunts of the story that make them unique and memorable in different cultural ways. Not only are these characteristics clearly shown to be a part of the Mexican culture, but also the morals of Mexican culture. We are told about different experiences and different lives and though these women are from the same culture they live completely different lives.

The objective of this Literary Analysis Essay is to express my opinion as it relates to the

Alot of people like to believe that the world is generally all good or all evil; however, in reality they are the yin and yang of the human condition, and they are the labels we put on things that either appeal to us or don’t. The biblical story of Lucifer, who before he was banished from Heaven, was God’s favorite angel. Lucifer in the story, defied God which was the ultimate disobedience to authority in everyone’s mind and so Lucifer was sent to Hell. Disobedience is seen as this sinful action that should be abolished as quickly as it arrived, people are oblivious to the good that can come from disobeying authority and more importantly the destructiveness

In the J.D.Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger implies that the world is full of phonies which makes it hard to maintain a meaningful relationships. Holden’s characterization as a liar and a phony throughout the story, expresses Salinger’s point that the world is full of disingenuous people. Holden admits he is a “Terrific liar” (0) in the beginning of the novel, and continuously proves that he is indeed a terrific liar.

Throughout the beginning of the novel it can be seen that Satrapi’s identity is is very much interwoven with the relationships she has with others. Whether it be the “permissive nature” (Satrapi, 131) of her mother, the “passionate politicking” (Satrapi, 20) of her father, or the fearless and valiant acts of her uncle Anoosh, all of Satrapi’s relationships have some sort of impact on her life and decisions at a young age. One of the more significant relationships Satrapi develops at a young age, is the strong connection to religion

The Sun Also Rises was written almost twenty years before On the Road but Ernest Hemingway’s novel is more progressive than that of Kerouac. For Jake, the idea of being old-fashioned and comfortable seems out of place in The Sun Also Rises as the women he loves and the friends he hangs out with seem to contradict the life Jake is searching for. In On the Road, Sal faces a similar dilemma as he is pursuing a free-living, no-root-planting lifestyle but everything he encounters is contrary to what he wants. Both of these men are chasing after what it means to live authentically but they are stuck in the wrong book to accomplish their goals. When analyzing Sal and Jake, then widening the view to include their lovers, friends and the novels’ historical

At the conclusion of his novel, The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway sends Brett south with Romero to the Spanish capital of Madrid. In Madrid, despite enjoying her time with Romero, Brett, in an action of self-reflection, sends Romero away as she realizes she is a negative influence on the young bull-fighter,and learns to care for the well-being of others, no matter what her personal desires may be. This becomes clear most especially when looking at the setting of where this decision is made. This decision is made by Brett in Madrid, which is south of her hometown, England. When analyzing this, Thomas Foster stated in his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, that “when

Hemingway carried the style and attitude of his short stories into his first great novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). He dedicated this novel to his first wife, Hedley Richardson. The novel divided into three books and which also divided into several chapters. The novel begins in Paris, France, moves to Pamplona, Spain and concludes in Madrid, Spain.