Catcher In The Rye Rhetorical Analysis

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his bold novel, The Scarlet Letter tackles a variety of themes that include: sin, guilt, redemption, postfeminism, and organized religion's abuse of power. Hawthorne spoke in a somber and grim tone, designed to arouse a sense of suspense for his readers. The audience in which he was addressing would have been conservative Christians and women suffragettes, all of whom reflected the ideologies during this time period. By instilling clever diction, Hawthorne exposes hypocrisy in Puritanism and objects against the religion's superfluous punishments; which force individuals to endure unnecessary and extreme suffering.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an action, adventure, science fiction book. It is about a teenager named Thomas, who arrives in an enclosed environment with no memory of his past. He lives with other teenagers, all boys. Everyday, they try to figure out a way to escape the maze, and seek freedom, but Thomas figured a way out. All of the gladers (the nickname of the people, due to them living in a place called the glade) ran out in the maze, most of them were killed by grievers (monsters that live in the maze), but some of them survived including Thomas. The survivors escaped the maze.

• “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” (ch.2 p.5)

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

Sometimes whats ideal in a situation is not what the truth of the situation and can cause your ideals to be lost. In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, he demonstrates a shift in some of the characters from the thought of idealism to the reality and truth of the world. Ralph is a good example of this shift, he starts out thinking the island will be a fun place and they’ll have fun waiting to be rescued, but soon he realizes that there is going to be more hardship and struggles to keep up the moral and hope of rescue. In the book Ralph wanted to keep everyone safe and get them off the island, but Jack wants to be a leader and messes up his plans, making it so that Ralph is alone in his plan to get rescued.

The passage begins on an unusual high note, with Holden’s three upbeat words, “The best thing.” But, by the end of the first sentence, Salinger hints that Holden’s reasoning might be more characteristically dark. To Holden, the best thing about the Museum is that “everything always stayed right where it was.” The reader isn’t sure what Holden means. “Nobody’d move,” he explains as a clarification, as if the reader would now understand. It isn’t until the third try that that Holden’s reasoning is clear. He likes that the displays of Eskimos, deer, and birds are frozen in action and never change. “Nobody’d be different” he repeats, completing the idea using Salinger's signature technique of repetition to drive the point home. To Holden, “the best thing” about the museum is that it never changes, unlike the real people in his

In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, there is a character by the name of Ralph. Ralph, the oldest of them all is introduced in the very beginning of the story. The story takes place on an uninhabited island. On this island are a bunch of boys whose plane had crashed. There are no women or adults, the oldest one is twelve and few months and therefore, is declared leader. They have to work together each with an assigned job to survive. The fact that Ralph is the leader, causes him to have to give a lot speeches to the group he uses logos and ethos well. In chapter 5 of the the book, “Beast from Water” These techniques cause him to persuade the boys better although, he would be more persuasive if he used all of the techniques. Using ethos, pathos and logos together makes an argument strong.

Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares and mystifies him, Holden invents a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy (“phoniness”), while childhood is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. Nothing reveals his image of these two worlds better than his fantasy about the catcher in the rye: he imagines childhood as an idyllic field of rye in which children romp and play; adulthood, for the children of this world, is equivalent to death—a fatal fall over the edge of a cliff. His created understandings of childhood and adulthood allow Holden to cut himself off from the world by covering himself with a protective armor of cynicism. But as the book progresses, Holden’s experiences, particularly his encounters with Mr. Antolini and Phoebe, reveal the shallowness of his conceptions.

Thomas, a teenager discovers himself in a strange place known as glade. Entering the glade with an only small fragment of his memory, he has to survive through the hardship and be a runner in order to find a way to escape the glade. The maze runner is set in an apocalyptic world. Thomas should accustom and demonstrate his skills to be a runner in the maze, but he can only do this with the help of other gladers. Thomas starts as a whiner, unwilling and an impulsive kid who just wants to figure out the maze himself, but eventually evolves as a brave, compassionate, and an intelligent kid realizing that he wants to redeem himself by helping his friends and assimilates into the glade striving to become a runner with the help of gladers.

“The Story of an Hour” Writing Assignment In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” she argues that the joy of independence is crucial to one’s happiness. In this story, Chopin utilizes the different types of irony and symbolism to help explain how independence is the foundation to Mr. Mallard’s joy. After Mrs. Mallard welcomes her new freedom, she descends down the stairs from her room like a “goddess of Victory” (2) alongside her sister, Josephine. The “goddess of Victory” symbolizes Mrs. Mallard’s triumph and success in overcoming the “powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature” (2), which she has experienced in her marriage.

Of joy that kill the snide note that Kate Chopin left to summarize the prompt “The Story of an Hour.” This note was quite fitting considering the circumstances of Mrs. Mallard’s situation. In any story of death normally you would hear the words depression, alcohol, and family surrounding it. However, in this story the words sob, free, and joy surround the news of Mr. Mallard’s death. These words represent the steps Mrs. Mallard and the rest of us should take when embracing the death of anyone close to us. The first step is the most obvious to accept the death and cry for your loss and the worlds loss of another mind. Next you should acknowledge that because of their death they are now free of the affliction of the the world. Lastly, you must

The short story “Story Of An Hour” written by Kate Chopin is considered as a scandalous story of political reflection and an unethical message about a woman, who is told that her husband has been in a fatal car crash. After receiving the news she walks off and stares into the window and smiles. Professor reading this would think that the window is a symbol of freedom, and once she steps out in the new world she is free as a bird. ” Scandalous” is what reporters would say in this era because a woman without a man had as much hope of making it in the world, as a dog that could did not bark around strangers. It’s possible, but it never happens.

018 Catcher in the Rye Textual Analysis J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, uses not only main character Holden Caulfield, but many different symbols throughout the book in order to develop a larger theme in the text. While you could argue that there are many different significant themes being displayed within the book, Salinger has emphasized change as being a big part of the work and the story itself. The author uses symbols such as the catcher in the rye, the carousel, and the museum in order to create to express the idea that if you are not willing to accept changes throughout your life, you will never grow as a person. The first important symbol that was used within the text was once the author described Holden’s big dream

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth” (1).

Every child must grow up because that is the process of life. There are many challenges and obstacles that we have to go through, but we learn how to overcome them as we grow. Life gets more challenging as we go through it and even though adolescents may not realize it, there are much more significant problems in the world than not getting the toy they wanted from Santa Claus. Our problems get larger and they get harder to deal with as we get older. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character is a teenage boy named Holden that is facing problems that he is having a hard time dealing with. He is having a hard time growing up because he doesn’t know how to face the problems that come his way. Salinger tells the journey of a teenager that portrays the hardest part of growing up is realizing that you’re not young anymore and living how you’re expected to live at your age.