Neil and Holden are compared in three different ways. Firstly Neil and Holden wanted to commit suicide, secondly they both had experienced lost, and lastly they both want through depression. Firstly Neil and Holden wanted to commit suicide. They both were depression in various different ways. The loss of Neil’s older bother put Neil in a situation Where he almost ended up committing suicide. Holden ends up being depressed for a majority of the book and on point he says he wanted to commit suicide.
Secondly they both had experienced lost. They both had lost a bother in their lives. Holden had lost a younger brother and Neil had lost a older brother. Both of their reactions to their brothers death were almost similar. Holden broke windows
59) Holden's failure to find someone to call is when his isolation comes into view, and earlier in the novel, he admits to wanting to commit suicide because of how lonesome he is. "I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead." (pg. 48) Not only does Holden not have friends, but his own parents do not have a good relationship with him. In chapter seven, Holden talks about his mother buying him hockey skates instead of racing skates. "She bought me the wrong kind of skates-I wanted racing skates and she bought hockey-but it made me sad anyway." (pg. 52) Holden's present from his mother symbolzes she does not even know her own chld well enough to know his interests. Besides his absense of friends and distant relationship with his parents, Holden's biggest sense of lonliness comes from the death of his younger brother, Allie.
Holden and Conrad are alike in how they greif. Both of them don’t like to talk about the deaths because it brings back memories and they
Topic 2-Holden avoids facing the death of his brother keeping the in this cycle of grief.
In the scope of things, Holden’s actions to alienate himself perpetuated his depression and triggered his downward spiral and mental decline. There was a clear internal conflict between his need to protect himself from the pain others cause and, his intrinsic need for companionship. A self-destructive cycle was born out of this conflict. Holden would alienate himself for protection, this resulted in him feeling lonely and depressed, this resulted in his reaching out to others, the interactions lead him to believe that people are destructive which ultimately leads to him alienating
Throughout the first few chapters of the novel, Holden's pride for his brother is clear when Holden quoted, “He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times more intelligent.” (Salinger 21). Their relation was evident to the reader as a mutual brotherly love where they both impacted each other's lives in different ways. As a result, when Allie died Holden had trouble coping with his emotions and proceeded by breaking all the windows in his garage, and breaking his own hand in the process. Overall Allie’s sudden death instills so much anger in Holden, it creates a fear of change because change was so traumatic for him. Having his younger brother die before him makes him believe that the innocence of childhood is dead, so he forces himself to grow up faster than he wants to so he can help children like his sister stay safe in their childhood. His whole outlook of life changes and he begins to perceive growing up as that the older one becomes, the closer one is to death. This mindset not only pressured him into uncomfortable adult situations, but it created the fear of change at the same time which slowly drove him to have psychological problems by the end of the
Holden continues to be upset with the world for his problems after his brother dies. He does not take responsibility for his actions at home. When Holden’s brother first passed away he became very violent. “... 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. I slept in the garage the night he died,and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it…”(Salinger 39). Holden chooses to take his anger out on the windows because he is depressed that he has lost his little brother. Many children resort to violence when they have lost someone very close to them. According to Cruse Bereavement Care Website depending on the child’s age and level of comprehension of what has happened, it can be hard for them to understand their emotions show how they feel. This website shows that Holden’s
After that incident Holden grew up fast it was not helpful that he was set in a boarding school environment surrounded by other influences of teenage boys. After he Ally’s death he breaks all the windows in his garage. I think that he meant that to release the grief and anger, but he was sent in a downward spiral to trouble.
Holden recognizes and perceives to be alienated from the adult world thus causing himself to believe he is depressed. Holden believes he is depressed from viewing the adult world and thinking that it is phony. He believes that the world is phony, superficial, hypocritical, and shallow. He views this world everyday and realizes that one day he will have to step into it, but every time he thinks about the world surrounding him it causes him to become depressed. Holden becomes depressed because he desires to remain a child were innocence is preserved and not drastically taken away. In Holden?s scenario, he feels that his innocence was taken away by witnessing the suicide of his close friend and the death of dear brother. Holden sees the world that he has to become a part of and desires more to not be a part of it. This hatred of stepping into the adult world causes Holden believe he is depressed and
As a young 16-year old boy, Holden has experienced a significant amount of trauma. Holden lost his beloved younger brother Allie, to leukemia three years ago. He spoke highly of his brother
Holden Caulfield encounters himself facing issues of acceptance of death, growing up, and parental neglecting that prevents him from completely understanding why it is that he is severely depressed. One of the hardships Holden must cope with is his inability to come to terms with death, of his younger brother, Allie. We often discover
Holden and Phoebe share a lot of the same experiences because they are family. They both experienced the loss of their brother Allie, who died of leukemia. Holden describes Allie as the “most intelligent member of the family... also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody.” (Salinger, 38) However, Holden takes Allie’s death much harder than Phoebe does. Holden grieves and even cries over Allie, even though Allie had died a whole three years ago in the story. It is also what made Holden begin to go mad, but seems to have little effect on Phoebe all these years later. Holden even says that “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. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the
Secondly, most teenagers have struggles grieving for the loss of of their loved ones. Holden struggles multiples of times to grief for the death of his younger brother, Allie, who died at the age of 11 due to leukemia. Holden writes about Allie for Stradlater’s english homework and tells the reader, “He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class...But it wasn’t just that he as the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anyone...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. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the
One of the hardships Holden must cope with is his inability to come to terms with death, in particular that of his younger brother, Allie. Holden seems to have experienced a
To many Americans today, the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today, we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November, thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden). In the same report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that in 1995, 3 out of every 100 eighteen-year-olds were arrested for weapons offenses. A rate three times higher than for males twenty-five to twenty-nine and five times higher than for males thirty to thirty-four (Curriden).
Holden’s little brother, Allie, had died and Holden is still not over his death. “I get very depressed, I keep saying to him, Holden says, “Okay. Go home and get your bike and meet me in front of Bobby’s house. Hurry up.” (Salinger, 99). There is many moments where Holden thinks of Allie, and even talks to him. Whenever Holden thinks about Allie he gets very upset and doesn’t want to do anything.