Examples Of Dialectical Journal For The Catcher In The Rye

These lines exchanged by Jane Eyre and Mr. St John perfectly exhibit the differences in their personalities. Jane Eyre is a passionate, emotional person, while Mr. St John comes off as "cold" and un-feeling. These contrasting temperaments make for an intriguing scene when Mr. St John asks for Jane to marry and move to India with him as a missionary's wife. Jane had a strong emotional reaction to Mr. St John's proposal and St John was taken aback when she rejected him, but he did not have a particularly passionate reaction. In the days and weeks to follow, St. John was by no means friendly or warm with Jane, but he was also not outwardly rude to her. All and all, Mr. St John's disposition can be described as "cold," and Jane's emotions, that had a fire-like intensity, led her to reject to St. Johns final proposal.

Studies have shown that ninety percent of teens who commit suicide are due to a mental illness such as depression (Teen Suicide Statistics 1). This percentage is immensely prominent, and the suicide rate is only climbing. In 1975, there were 1,594 teen suicides, and the numbers have now escalated to 2,061 teen suicides (Holmes 1). Unfortunately, almost half of the teens who have seriously thought about attempting suicide, actually commit suicide (Suicidal Teens 1). Often Holden Caulfield, a victim of depression, thinks about suicide, but doesn’t attempt suicide. The author of The Catcher and Rye, J. D. Salinger, illustrates throughout the book that Holden is trying to run away from his problems by giving him many hardships to overcome in his life. Holden doesn’t have the average teenage lifestyle: he has dealt with being kicked out of four high schools, has witnessed the death of his brother Allie, and unfortunately does not have the guidance or support of his parents. Over the course of the three days, the reader sees Holden reach lower than rock bottom, the rarity of happiness, and Holden’s depression growing to the point of explosion. In The Catcher in the Rye, the author uses the fish and ducks, snowball, and Allie and his baseball mitt to reveal that for young and fragile people, depression can be overwhelming and debilitating because they don’t have the maturity and skill to deal with it properly.

In Rip Van Winkle, it portrays a stereotypical marriage where the woman is constantly nagging her husband to do the things that she wants him to do. This story has a lot of derogatory language towards Rip Van Winkle’s wife, Dame Van Winkle and marriage in general. The narrator says that Rip Van Winkle after a fight would “take to the outside of the house – the only side which, in truth, belongs to a hen-pecked husband” (47).

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

Teenagers such as Holden who have thought of suicide do not desire to die but they want to escape from the problems in their life that at that particular moment the impression of dying was the only way out. Holden often lies to himself to ease the emptiness and guilt he is living with that even Holden himself tells us that he “really felt like, committing suicide” (104). Even if we did not have the evidence that Holden was depressed through his actions of lying and having suicidal thoughts we still have the profound statement of all. What other way to prove that Holden Caulfield is depressed then Holden himself announcing that life itself “makes (him) so depressed” (75). Every single page of the novel is gorged with Holden telling us he is depressed. Whether it was Holden remembering someone say please and Holden commenting “that’s depressing” (211) or Holden warning us to never sleep in Grand Central, because “it’ll depress you,” (194) it is obvious that Holden is suffering from a mental illness.

Cartoon #1: The first cartoon in the packet, with the quote “Loved our evening, Lou. Thanks for being rich,” reminds me of the scene where Gatsby and Daisy see each other again after almost five years. The first quote that reminds me of this picture is when Daisy says, “‘That huge place there?’ she cried pointing” (Page 90). Daisy says this when she first sees Gatsby mansion, and she is immediately mesmerized by his huge amount of wealth.

He had told him that him and Holden jumped out of the tree (Knowles 21).

For my page I am going to review some topics of this novel that I loved, and for others that I didn’t, I will give some of my own ideas. I loved when the good guys stood up for themselves. Good guys tend to be more passive because that is what the most correct thing to do is, but when good guys like Atticus, Mr. Diaz, and Reverend Sykes stood up for people with somewhat of aggression it gives you that nice tingly feeling that I love to have when I’m reading a story. Good guys are never getting full out revenge on a horrible person because they don’t have it in them but what they always do is way better because that horrible person is made to feel horrible about himself. That is all I really loved about the story other than the other

Plot overview: The novel is set in the 1950s. Holden Caulfield is the narrator and the protagonist in the novel. Throughout the novel Holden is not specific about the location but makes it clear that he is either in a sanatorium or mental hospital undergoing treatment. The novel is between the school term in the fall and Christmas time.

It is no surprise that the Catcher in the Rye, a rather prominent and popular novel written J.D Salinger, has many different viewpoints and evokes different opinions from the reader. The novel is about a young man by the name of Holden Caulfield where everything seems to be toppling upon him; stress, growing up, making critical decisions. Holden travels through an arduous journey which is not kind to him, however it does make him open his eyes to the world around him. As such an example of disagreement is “J.D Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, Aging Gracefully”, written by Jonathon Yardley. The author has mixed feelings about the novel throughout his writing; Yardley seems to have a soft spot for the book, but also criticizes it for poor word choice/writing and the seemingly cheap way of pulling the reader’s emotions. Yardley does a decent job of backing up his own claims, but does he go the extra yard to make readers agree with him?

Grieving can have a variety of symptoms depending on each individual, including impaired eating or sleeping habits, feeling depressed, inability concentrating on work. These symptoms stem from the natural process of dealing with loss, and, according to a patient I interviewed, learning about what he goes through is absolutely normal helps to reduce their anxiety and accepting reality. The organisation provides a wide range of booklets for different target groups such as children who lost a parent, or adults who

We all have to go through it. We all learn from it, and it will always be in our memory. Growing up. Some just want to pass it and move on, where others try to stay in the phase as long as possible. Some people grows up when they leave home, some kids by becoming 18 and others a third or fourth reason.

Growing up takes a ton of hard work. When I was a kid I did not have to worry about life. However, when I started 6th grade it was overwhelming for me, I had to use a planner to keep track of my homework, study for tests, and it was crazily stressful because that is when your grade matters. Although, I hated growing up, I gained something important from it, I was more responsible, more mature, and I gained a skill called empathy. To prepare myself for college and the work world I will simply be more grown up.

In the 1950s, American economy was booming after the World War II. Rates of unemployment and inflation were low, and wages were high. However, the American society had its flaws despite all the success it was having. One of the most popular novels of the time, The Cather In The Rye written by JD Salinger, discussed the flaws in the society Americans had failed to realize. Throughout the novel, Salinger criticized many aspects of American Society such as the idea of conformity and the ignorance of teenager’s lives.

The book that I read and will be typing a book report about is “The Catcher in the Rye” written by J. D. Salinger and published in 1951. “The Catcher in the Rye” is classified as literary realism and as a coming-of-age fiction. The book follows the main character, Holden Caulfield, as he spends a few days in New York City after getting kicked out of his school, Pencey Prep, right before Christmas break.