“The Catcher in the Rye and The Five Levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” In the article “The Five levels of Maslow 's hierarchy of needs” by Abraham Maslow explains the basic needs that a person wants to achieve during his or her lifetime. Cherry states that there are 5 basic needs a person wants to achieve, which are physiological, security, social, esteem, and self actualization being the highest of these needs. The needs go up as a pyramid and the higher you go the longer and harder the needs are to full fill. Then higher needs become more important than the needs below it. Maslow also explains in the article how the needs will not necessarily appear in the same order depending on the type of person. In the book “Catcher in …show more content…
He tries to protect the children’s innocence because when he saw the “fuck you” on the wall he got really mad because Holden doesn 't want the children to see it since he feels that their innocence will go away too soon(204). Holden feels that after a person loses their innocence, problems similar to his will start to appear. Holden doesn’t want the children to lose their innocence and become like him. He doesn 't want them to grow up and see life as something bad and realize how the world is, not happy and just surrounded by a bunch of phonies. Another time that Holden cares about other people is when Stradlater is on a date with Jane the girl that Holden feels lover for her. Stradlater didn’t know how her name was pronounced and Holden said he was a moron(100) Holden wanted to protect Jane from getting hurt by Stradlater. Holden didn 't want to see her suffer since he really cares about her and he didn 't want just anyone to play around with her feelings. Holden wanted to keep her away from the bad and to not suffer the way she did when she was in her house and started crying because of her dad. Holden wants her happy and will do anything to make it happen. Holden has achieved the need of self actualization and he demonstrates it through his actions throughout the book. In conclusion, Holden is the character that fits well with the article writing by Kendra Cherry. Where his behavior is impacted by the missing
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a structural progression of psychological and physical needs. Maslow hypothesized that there were two distinct types of needs: deficiency needs and growth needs2. The deficiency needs,
People of all ages experience a transitional stage throughout life, which would be the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood usually occurring during the mid teen years of life. This phase is considered to be the time when many children start to leave childhood for the life of adulthood. During these times of change many human beings experience confusion and potential problems of growing up in the adult world. Throughout the United States many people become confused of who they are as a person growing up, such as the protagonists of The Catcher in the Rye and The House on Mango Street who both experience difficulty in leaving childhood life for adulthood life. These two characters
Yet another issue Holden endures throughout this novel is loneliness . There are many reasons that he is very lonely all throughout the novel. The biggest reason he doesn't talk to anybody is because he is afraid he is going to get hurt emotionally. For example he is scared to call Jane and is scared to let her in his heart because he doesn't want to loose another person he loves, like his deceased brother Allie. Another example of his loneliness is when he meets the prostitute in the hotel. Holden knows that he can have the comfort of another human for a little while, but he doesn't want to do anything with her because he knows she will just leave after they are done having sex. In a way he is looking for something that will last longer, like a relationship, but he is too scared of being hurt . Although, “loneliness is difficult to fess up
Love also becomes an important aspect, each thrive for passion and affection from others and have someone they confide in. Holden places deep care into his younger sister Phoebe because they connect on many levels, both as childlike mind and in interest. He also longs for closure towards his deceased brother Allie. Holden worries about his parents thoughts, he respects them. He is concerned about his mother’s reaction to getting kicked out of yet another school. The only two people he feels he has truly connected with are his sister and Allie, often in times of need they are the first he contacts. Throughout his cycle of depression he talks aloud to Allie. (Quote: Holden: “I felt so depressed, you can't even imagine. What I did, I started talking, sort of out loud to Allie. I do that sometimes when I get very depressed.”) He shows he cares about Phoebe by constantly wanting to call and chat with her; he often talks about her. On the contrary he contradicts himself by finding an excuse to not call, or to not visit. By isolating himself he also goes against himself because he
The Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried compare how the two main characters are Isolated and in Exile. Each book the two charters are Isolated and Exiled in different way but in some way also similar. Two young men trying to find a way to be accepted in the adult world is still a mystery to them. The loss friends, family along the way and they can’t seem to find trust in relationships. When you’re young you do not know what is out there in the world. Who would think that growing up would be so hard. My comparisons are about the main characters Holden in “Catcher in the Rye”, and O’Brien in The Things they Carried.
Many times throughout the book Holden starts having strong feelings for a particular person for no reason at all. It is very confusing for
If you're looking for a book that is light-hearted and fun, the Catcher in the Rye is not the place you want to look. In The Catcher in the Rye, you get to follow our main character Holden Caulfield on his three-day adventure home from the private school he just got kicked out of: Pencey Prep. Holdens days traveling home are spent in NYC going to bars, hanging out with girls, going to clubs, and anything he could think of to avoid going home and telling his parents he got kicked out of his fourth private school. While this may sound like paradise for a teenager like Holden, it ends up being a very tortuous, and dreadful experience for him to go through all alone. Holden would definitely relate to the song “The Headmaster's Ritual” by The Smiths,
As the story proceeds, we see Holden accept the fact that children will “fall off the cliff” and there’s nothing anyone can do, this represents the struggle of preserving the innocence of children versus letting them experience the way of life on their own. The next day, after seeing his little sister, Phoebe, he decides that he wasn’t going to wait until wednesday to leave for the woods, but he was going to leave that day. Phoebe was at school and he wanted to tell her about this new plan and to say goodbye to her. He walked to her school and wrote a note to give to the principle to give to her, before walking into the school, Holden sits down on the steps “While [he] was sitting down, [he] saw something that drove [him] crazy. Somebody’d written ‘Fuck you’ on the wall. It drove [him] damn near crazy” (Salinger 221). Holden discloses that he was so angry with someone writing this absurd word on the wall, that he was ready to bash whoever it was and even kill them. This shows a whole new side of Holden, he behaves irrationally and violent over the cause of someone defiling school property and subjecting children to “jump over the cliff” of innocence and adolescence. Children grow up and lose their innocence at all different ages and there is no way to preserve it in ways like how Holden wants to. Our society manipulates ways of contorting children’s innocence in ways exhibited like this.
Holden interprets people's action differently because according to him, they have different motives. Holden seems to think that all his surrounding is phony because it's not to his expectation. The only thing that he considers worth of value is a child's innocence. Holden has a significant attachment to his little sister and the warm memories they shared together. It’s probably the only thing that keeps him from carrying out his thoughts and keeps him from losing his mind.
Holden’s changes throughout the story are testimony, to his own sincere transition in life. In the book Holden’s symbolized transition
The main reason as to why he attempts this is because he himself is struggling with growing up yet he isn’t that much a child anymore. Although protecting children is his main goal, Holden tries to protect Mrs. Morrow by lying to her about her son, Ernie, in attempt to keep her from knowing about his cruelty, “they stay a rat their whole life” (57). Holden soon reveals that he wants to be a catcher in the rye while talking to his sister, Phoebe in chapter 22. When revealing his dream, Holden’s intentions are to stand at the edge of a cliff and catch the children to prevent them from falling over. Also, Holden tries to get rid of the “fuck you’s” he found at the school and art museum to prevent the children from seeing them and being exposed to the world’s cruelty. Finally, when watching Phoebe on the carousel attempting to reach the golden ring, despite how worried he was, Holden let Phoebe try and get a grasp of the ring regardless of the fact that she may fall off. “If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them”
Throughout the novel, Holden attempts to find the true from of himself as he struggles with the social interactions around him. Due to the struggle and confusion that arouses from it,
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs model is implemented off a hierarchal pyramid which is renowned as one the most motivational theories, it is mainly incorporated with business dynamics, and it can also be used when relating to cultural diversity. Maslow 's hierarchy outlines in a hierarchal order as drawn upon by (Patrick.A.G, 2003) quoted by Maslow that the needs are ' 'Physiological, safety, social, self-esteem, and self-actualization ' '. The physiological needs are the basis that an individual will attain such as, basic human needs which incorporate survival, food and shelter. After the physiological needs have been met, safety and security is the next priority need on the hierarchy,
Abraham Maslow’s theory, Theory of Hierarchy Needs, is a motivational theory in psychology that has a tier model of the five things a human needs. Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs and that some needs take precedence over others. The five stages, from bottom to top, include Physiological needs( food, water, warmth, and rest), the second stage: Safety Needs ( security and safety), third stage: Belongingness and love needs ( intimate relationships and friends), the fourth stage: Esteem Needs (prestige and feeling of accomplishment), and finally the last stage: Self-actualization ( achieving one’s full potential, including creative potential). The five stage model can be divided into
Psychologist Abraham H. Maslow is the developer of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The theory covers human behavior in terms of basic requirements for survival and growth (Cengage, 2002). The theory was developed in the early 1960’s. During this time psychology was taken over by two different views. One side was the human behavior and the other one was the behaviorist. Maslow explained that psychoanalysts had not accomplished the task to consider the behavior of healthy humans. He also mentioned that many subjective experiences that related with human behaviors were being ignored by behaviorist. In the beginning Maslow examined motivations and experience of many healthy individuals. He recognized that there are many requirements in this theory that are important for human survival and to help motivate individuals. He conceptualized different human needs as a pyramid with five levels in