Catcher In The Rye Critical Response

The coming of age phase in a young person’s life is a transitional phase which prompts the idea of individualism, decision making, acceptance, moral challenges, disappointment, and individual needs. These years are essential for the overall learning and growing-up part of someone’s life. Coming of age characteristics transpired in the novel The Catcher in the Rye and The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian pertain to, but do not exclude, the acceptance of the complexities and “grayness” of the world, confrontation with the adult world, and the individual needs and desires vs. external pressures/expectations/norms. In both novels, young boys are faced with tough choices that will later help them in the overall transition from

Holden Caulfield is the main character & narrator. He's insecure, emotionally stunted, very bitter and has a cynical view about he world around him. He is a mentally ill 16 year old who views the world around him with bitterness with a longing for the world around him to never change. He is extremely judgmental about others. He is in a psychiatric hospital months after the events of the novel take place.

Furthermore, the theme of this novel relies strongly on character development. The three themes of the novel: the painfulness of growing up, alienation as a form of self defence and the phoniness of adulthood are all based on the main character, Holden. Throughout the novel, Holden seems to isolate himself from the world. As he says to Mr Spencer, he feels 'trapped ' on ' the other side of life ', and he constantly attempts to fit in as well as protecting himself from maturity.

Prompt: Choose a character from a novel or play of recognized literary merit and write an essay in which you (a) briefly describe the standards of the fictional society in which the character exists and (b) show how the character is affected by and responds to those standards. In your essay do not merely summarize the plot.

The Catcher in the Rye is a book written by J.D. Salinger. It is about Holden, a depressed teenager, and the events that take place three days before winter break in New York City. In this book, Holden interacts with many different characters. Some of them leave him feeling happy, while others make Holden depressed. Two characters Holden talks to are his sister Phoebe and a prostitute named Sunny.

Holden Caulfield has recently been showing various signs of depression. A girl named Phoebe Caulfield, Holden’s sister, showed concern about her brother. One night she said to him, “You don’t like anything that’s happening” (Salinger, 169), and when he responded, “Yes I do. Sure I do” (Salinger, 169), she challenged him. She told him, “Name one thing” (Salinger, 169), and was concerned when he answered, after a long pause, “I like Allie” (Salinger, 169). Allie is Holden’s late brother, and Phoebe was worried to hear that the only thing her brother likes about this world is something that isn’t even there anymore.

Like the concept of childhood, children's literature is very much a cultural construct that continues to evolve over time. (Reference). The complexity and Rowling’s willingness to take on difficult and contemporary issues such as racism, genocide, classism, and difference – makes Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone uniquely valuable in developing a narrative. While both books can be regarded as controversial due to the moral fibre of them, The Catcher in the Rye, captures an adolescent protagonist wavering between childhood and adulthood.

I strongly believe that Gene intentionally "jounced" the tree limb, and ultimately caused Finny to fall. There are a couple ways in the above passage that authenticates that Gene intentionally jounced the tree limb. First of all, Gene explains,”Holding firmly to the trunk, I took a step toward him, and then my knees bent and I jounced the limb.” If Gene had accidentally jounced the limb, he would not be “holding firmly” to the trunk. Gene was firmly holding on to the trunk because if he was not and he jounced the limb, there was also a chance for him to fall. Right after finny falls, Gene claims that it was the first clumsy physical action the Finny has ever made. Readers can infer that Gene said that with pride because later, “I moved

Holden Caulfield the story’s protagonist and narrator. A young man who the reader finds at the start of the novel is being kicked out of school. In the span of about three days, Holden takes the reader on an adventure in New York City, giving commentary on people, and things he sees on his journey. J. D. Salinger wrote the story of Catcher In The Rye in the 1940s. At the same time, the world was at war.

The Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger in 1951, four years after the beginning of the Cold War. The story revolves around a character named Holden Caulfield, an outsider to his society and an unreliable narrator. His story begins with a description his current situation, which consists of being confined to some institution for a “sickness” he refuses to talk about and his reminisce of better times. Caulfield flashes back to when he got expelled from a highly competitive prep school, failing all of his classes with the exception of English. Concluding that Pencey Prep was full of phonies anyway, he decides to take a train to New York City. On the way there, he meets the mother

The Catcher in the Rye is a book loved by anyone and everyone; of the old times and the new times. The main character, Holden Caulfield, tells us all of his struggles from a Christmas vacation that couldn’t have gone any worse than it did. Through everything that happens with him, his struggles are reflecting what it was like to live in a world of post-World War II and post-Great Depression; alcoholism, self-confusion, and an even deeper, self depression.

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger is a critically acclaimed and highly spoke of book. The book “Catcher in the Rye” is narrated by a sixteen year old boy named “Holden Caulfield”. This teen adolescent is not like any other boy you will ever find, Holden is a sixteen year old teen going through the most difficult times of adolescence and is discovering that no one understands him. Holden is too complex for our understanding he speaks in his own vernacular as if not one thing or person can understand him. The story takes place mostly in New York after Holden flunks out of his prep school, “Pencey Prep”. Holden travels to New York for three days before going back to his family. In New York Holden makes many harrowing experiences that

The Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger, an American author. The book was published in 1951. The Catcher in the Rye takes place in an unspecified location in 1951, starting out in a mental hospital. The story follows the main character, sixteen year-old Holden Caulfield. The Catcher in the Rye is pretty much him just talking about the events during and after his being kicked out of his school for flunking four out of five classes. His perspective as a teenage boy makes the book rather enjoyable, as you get to read about his wandering thoughts and it just feels very real.

Holden Caulfield’s perspective of the world can be defined as “teenage angst”. He is occupied with people’s authenticity, to see whether or not if they are a “phonies”. His character is complex and at times paradoxical. He categorizes people as fake and superficial, yet throughout the book, the reader can tell he’s desperate for companionship. Although I

The Catcher in the Rye is an alright book. I’m not going to say that it was a bad book, It wasn’t. All it really was, was a story of the life of a boy named Holden Caulfield. This book starts with Holden getting kicked out of his college, but that’s just one of the many colleges he has been kicked out of. Then it goes on of Holden meeting with his colleagues, or with strangers, and describing how he feels towards these people. The people he meets throughout the book usually end up depressing him and causing him to become more lonely. This story wasn’t all interesting, but it still kept me at a steady wonderment at what would happen next. Some of the things this book wasn’t bad at was describing characters,