Hanna's Mistakes

Julia is an agent of insurgence who seeks to oppose the Party with sexual promiscuity. Especially in comparison to Katherine, Winston’s ex-wife, Julia is a character that can be associated with darkness. “She [Julia] had her first love affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty.. Life as she saw it was quite simple. You wanted a good time; ‘they’, meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best as you could“ (Orwell 131). Her actions of rebellion such as stealing food from the Inner Party and having sex with Party men are what make Julia appear to connect to darkness.

The first of many things that Julia and Winston don’t have in common are their characteristics. Both Winston and Julia have a contradicting physical appearance and personality. Winston is a small, frail figure with very fair hair. His face is naturally optimistic looking and his skin is rough by the continuous use of coarse soap, blunt razor blades, and the cold of winter. Winston is thirty-nine years old and has bad health. He coughs violently in the morning and suffers itching and inflammation from a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. The symptoms of the ulcer grow worse the more he retains from sexual activity and starts to alleviate once he starts the affair with Julia. Winston is very thoughtful and observant and is very concerned with the Party’s philosophy and how they control the history. Winston also has a unique sense of fatalism and is extremely paranoid. On the other hand, Julia has very dissimilar characteristics than Winston. Julia is dark-haired and twenty-six years old. She plays the act of a zealous Party member by wearing an Anti-Sex sash and passionately participating during the Two Minutes Hate. The real Julia is

Let us say there was a left handed baseball glove lying around, does a feeling of pain, grief, memories, guilt, and depression arise from it? Now, let us capture a closer view of it, there is writing on it, just another dirty worn out used mitt, right? To Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, this basically describes his entire life, from the worn out seams to the faded fabric to the smudged green ink to the slight lingering scent. It was Allie, his younger brother’s, mitt. Incidentally, he died from leukemia at a young age and never acquired the experience of the joys of childhood.

But the book increasingly presents through many examples his attitude towards life, and his problems socializing with the world around him. Holden is afraid of change; he wants everything to remain the same because of Allie’s death. Throughout the book, Holden mentions Allie almost every single time, the reason why is because Allie to Holden was the most intelligent, enjoyable, lovely, the most charming kid with the best sense of humor you’ll ever meet. Holden’s love towards Allie was so enormous that after his brother past away, he glorified him as a saint. Moreover, Holden is glad that his brother past away in a young age because he knows that he will never see the ugly truth of the world, that means having never been corrupted by the world of sexual relations and older people.

Allie’s lack of appearance greatly affects Holden’s actions throughout novel. This absence is due to his death at the early age of 11. The major loss of his innocent red-headed brother was enough to break Holden at the tender age of 13. When Allie’s death occurred the loss of Holden 's sanity soon followed. “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don 't blame them. I really don 't.” Holden says. When Holden found out Allie died he didn 't cry and morn the way I believe his parents and Phoebe did. He morned through

Allie was Holden's younger brother that passed away from Leukemia at the age of eleven. Holden was very distraught when this happened, after he found out he punched the windows in the garage and ended up breaking his hand. Holden was sent to the hospital for his hand and missed Allie's funeral. Although it is not explicitly stated in the book, the fact that he missed his younger brother's funeral troubles him it could be one of the reasons Holden lacks closure about the passing of Allie. Allie passing away hit Holden harder than anyone else because Holden considered Allie his best friend and thought of him as the most intelligent and nicest member of the family. Holden also bonded a lot with Allie because his older brother, D.B., moved to Hollywood to become a writer for the movies. This made Holden partially resent his older brother because he considered D.B. a phony for "selling himself out to Hollywood". Once D.B. left, Holden bonded more with Allie even though they already were together whenever they could be. Almost four years after the death of Allie, Holden still considers Allie as the only person or thing that he truly likes. Phoebe, his younger sister, confronted him about it by saying that Allie is dead and does not count as someone or something he truly likes. Holden became very upset and even angry at that statement, responding

Holden Caulfield, a name synonymous with rebellion, alienation, and cynicism, is the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout such novel, many problems plague Holden, one of the largest being his inability to reach closure over the death of his younger brother, Allie. To Holden, Allie represents an ideal persona that he subconsciously looks for in people. Allie was an intelligent, enthusiastic young boy who Holden admired, in a way. When Holden talks about Allie, he only ever has positives, heaping praise upon his brother. All to mention that he had died of Leukemia at a young age. Holden responded at first, saying, “I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just

Holden is devastated by Allie’s death and carries around a baseball glove on which Allie used to write poems in green ink. Because Allie died so young, Holden thought that his innocence was taken away from him. I do not think Allie influenced Holden in a good way, because in reaction to his death Holden felt it was his responsibility to protect the innocence of all children. And this is not a healthy feeling, a boy of Holden’s age should not feel responsible for the innocence of children, he should have been able to accept that everyone is going to be an

Winston was a little confused on why Julia wasn't so happy to see him. He ran out of the cafe to stop and talk to her. “Julia!” he yelled, “Why are you following me?” Julia asked.

Winston hates the fact that she lives according to the Party’s teachings, considering he has many unorthodox opinions. Winston is evidently not content with his relationship with Katherine because he believes that marriage must be based on trust and love, rather than the fulfillment of the Party’s expectations. Winston finally realizes what it is like to feel for someone other than Big Brother when he encounters Julia. At first, Winston assumes that Julia is an agent of the Thought Police or of the Brotherhood, but it is not until he reads the note saying “I love you” that his thoughts change. It is extremely difficult for Winston and Julia to make plans due to the constant surveillance, so they spend time with each other by inhabiting the apartment over Mr. Charrington’s shop. For Winston, it is nice to know that there are people like him in Oceania, which is why Julia gives him a reason to stay alive. His health conditions also benefit from his love affair since “the process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice” (Orwell 150). Unfortunately, Winston begins to understand that Julia is not on the same page as him when it comes to the Party. There is no doubt that Julia hates the Party, however she makes no general criticism of it.

Described as “young”, “free-spirited”, and “practical”, Julia differs from Winston in many ways. She is open about her sexuality, and sleeps with several party members before she meets Winston. Although these acts are frowned upon in the eyes of The Party, Julia doesn’t intend them that way, and tells Winston that it is only to satisfy her own desires. Julia only “..questioned the teachings of the party when they in some way touched upon her life”(153). She was too young to remember a life that contradicted The Party’s teachings, and because she believed all Party propaganda to be lies, Julia had no interest in what those teachings were anyway.

Holden's problems can be traced back to the loss of his baby brother. Holden thought Allie was the smartest and brightest Claufield. Allie never appears in the novel only discussed briefly throughout. It is easy to see that Holden misses Allie and that the death causes Holden to lose the ability to love with ease. When Holden is being pushed by Phoebe to express one thing he like in the world he states Allie(Salinger 92). This expresses the true pain Holden feels. He wants nothing more then to speak to Allie. The loss of Allie is what truly spurs Holden's sadness and emotional

Holden Caulfield, the cynical, recently expelled, high school protagonist becomes obsessed with the preservation of innocence. Holden’s younger brother, Allie, who died three years prior of leukemia, is commemorated as the perfect child. Holden suggests that Allie was the smartest, kindest and most well rounded kid, admitting that he would have died instead of Allie. Humanity will never be perfect, and so, no one has quite mastered the art of perfection, and yet Holden suggests that Allie’s perfect, innocent and pure qualities should have been preserved over his own. Holden then seeks and fails to find and recognize innocence in anyone else he encounters. No one measures up to the inflated way Holden idolizes Allie, and such begins his obsession with innocence and honesty. In this way, it can be seen that Salinger idealizes the innocence and wholesomeness of childhood so much so, that Holden feels it would have only been just if he

The main character, Julia is revealed as weak, and incapable of helping her self up as ‘she held out a free hand’ toward Winston

she similar to him? How does Julia’s age make her attitude toward the Party very different