Im Just A Kid Quotes

By: Xander Dell Book: New Kid Author: Tim Green Book genre: Realistic Fiction Quote: “Be careful what you wish for” Summary: A kid named Brock and his dad are moving around because there was a warrant out for Brock's dad and they would kill Brock if he did not turn himself in. When he gets to his new school he gets in a fight then becomes friends with the kid. Brock is only in eighth grade and is a giant for a kid.

This instance is showing that Holden is putting himself in isolation away from everybody else. He is on top of a hill all alone while everybody else is having fun at a football game. Right off the bat, Holden portrays avoidance and detachment from other people. Of the symptoms above, Holden demonstrates most of them very strongly. He had many instances where his emotional reactions changed dramatically. For example, at the end of the book when Holden is explaining how he misses everybody and says, “I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice”(214). This quote expresses how drastically Holden’s emotions change as time goes on. Earlier in the book Holden despises these characters, but now he is telling us that he misses them. It demonstrates that he is not mentally stable, which is a strong symptom of PTSD that Holden pertains throughout the book. Another example of this is when Holden is looking back on how he reacted to his brother’s death and says, “It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit , but I hardly even knew what I was doing”(39). Holden portrays another part of himself that is unstable in this quote. Not only is he unstable with how he feels about others,

Holden can’t get over the loss of his brother’s death, Allie, and even blames himself partially for his death. Holen in the book says “Anyway, that’s what I wrote about Stradlater’s composition about. Old Allie's baseball mitt. ”(Salinger 39). These two quotes both explain how Holden feels on the inside and the outside.

Holden feels alone and depressed after a few hours out of his room. He feels as if he is by himself in the big world. As Holden said on page 56, " It was depressing out in the street. You couldn't even hear any cars anymore. I got a feeling so lonesome and rotten, I even

Throughout the book The Catcher In the Rye, Holden has struggled with mental illness. This why the song “The sound of silence” By Paul Simon pertains to Holden. In the song it says “Hello darkness my old friend” the darkness is Holden's depression and he can view it as something so common to him at this point. Holden's depression has been with him for a while and it almost comforts him, like a friend, his depression is like a blanket surrounding and comforting Holden while tainting his thoughts, emotions, and judgement. Also shown in the song, this quote, “In restless dreams I walked alone” through this quote you can see how Holden felt alone and that no one would be there to help him accomplish any of his goals if he had any. Even Though Holden

Holden is perpetually forcing people to give him attention. He is incontestably a lonely kid, but instead of finding a healthy and mature way of dealing with his issues he needs to make up ridiculous plans of escape. And yet before he leaves for those ludicrous plans he must announce it to his little sister which he must have known would have caused negative accouterments. Yet, he goes and wakes her up in the middle of the night because attention is attention to him negative or positive. “That made her cry even harder. I was glad. All of a sudden I wanted her to cry till her eyes practically dropped out. I almost hated her.” (Salinger 121). This quote is said when Phoebe wants to go away with Holden, but he will not allow her. It depicts the idea that not only does Holden have zero compassion for the situation, but also the idea that Holden enjoys the idea that he is the reason for her sadness. Holden’s desire for attention is so strong that he does not care if the attention is negative or positive. In the end, he is sadistic in this moment and he does not even seem bothered by

The song “Mr. Lonely” by Akon represents Holden when he is in the adult world going places and trying to find people to feel that lonely spot. More specifically when holden is in the room by himself. “I really felt like dancing. I’m very fond of dancing, sometimes, and that was one of times. So all of a suddenly sort of leaned over and said, “Would any of you girls care to dance?” (Salinger 70). Holden can not stand being alone so when he goes to lavender room he talks to older women and bugs them until they dance with him. Whenever Holden is by himself he either leaves to be around people over call someone to feel that loneliness and make himself feel better. Considering this, the artist Akon was feeling lonely because he said, “Lonely,

Holden wishes to be free from the phoniness of Pencey Prep and also the adult word. The negative effect of leaving the school without his parents’ knowledge can be seen after Holden leaves Ernie’s and returns back to the hotel, “The whole lobby was empty. It smelled like fifty million dead cigars. It really did. I wasn't sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead.” (Salinger 90). Holden finally got what he had wanted, to be alone. As explained in chapter 25 when he reveals his wishes of moving away and becoming a deaf-mute. Instead of being happy in his isolation, finally free from the phonies in the world around him, Holden becomes deeply depressed, even expressing thoughts of suicide. This is also evident after Holden leaves the Wicker Bar drunk and is wandering around Central Park in the cold, “…it was getting very cold out again, and my teeth started chattering like hell. I couldn't make them stop…I started walking over to the park. I figured I'd go by that little lake and see what the hell the ducks were doing… I didn't have anyplace else special to go to--I didn't even know where I was going to sleep yet--so I went. I wasn't tired or anything. I just felt blue as hell.” (Salinger 153). Holden is in clear need of help and instead of calling home and telling his parents the truth, he pushes away further and decides to go to the duck pond, once again surrounded by his depressing thoughts. In Holden’s fight to become independent he only further launched himself into his depression. During adolescence a person needs things like love and encouragement in order to succeed, but by alienating himself from the people who love him most, he is taking that away from himself. Similar to Holden, Christopher also tries to become

This song fits in perfectly with how Holden is handling his problems. After being kicked out of a private school in which his mother paid for, he delays telling her until he can get his emotions under control. He goes to New York City and tries to get drunk to relieve his stress, as Billie Joe Armstrong did with drugs. “Am I just paranoid? Or I'm just stoned.” This song also talks about the constant paranoia he faces. Holden also has to deal with being paranoid as he is clearly insecure. It is rare that the reader will find Holden describing somebody positively. He is constantly making shallow judgments about the people he encounters. He says, “I’m not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you out on the dance floor.” Before even having a conversation with her, he already comes to the conclusion that she is a stupid girl. This proves his insecurity because he is seeing his imperfections through others and criticizing them for it.

This song speaks volumes as to what Holden is trying to find in life. He wants to be happy, but he is often depressed with his life. In the story it is revealed that the museum is his indeed “happy place”. In the story it reads “I get very happy when I think about it. Even now” (120). Holden admires the fact that nothing in the Museum changes and wishes that the museum could represent how his life would go. Simple, and manageable all characteristics he wishes he could trace into his real life. The song brings this all together because no matter how long it’s been since Holden’s last visit it still gives him the same spark of happiness as the last time. Being happy is definitely the main point of this

I made a word collage with pictures surrounding it, some of the words I used were, Allie- Allie was holdens sister who sadly died of Leukemia she is included in the collage because she is often referred to and or talked about in the book. Depressed- The word depressed is included because Holden is emotionally depressed throughout the book due to the fact that he is unable to find a connection with anyone. Tuberculosis-

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

This song is significant to this chapter because there are many different sides to Holden and one of them is being a little kid and this song talks about being adolescent. Holden

Throughout the novel Holden is rejected and exploited by the society around him. As he is conflicted with himself to find a purpose in life he constantly tries to connect with a superficial society. The ongoing failure and fake personas he meets adds to his depression and cynicism. But instead of facing the problems by growing up and to move on Holden uses this negativity and isolation to protect him. Holden tries show that he is better than everybody else as this is the little stability he has left. When in reality Holden is just scared of the interaction of people because they just submerge him with complications he doesn 't know not yet how to deal with. Holden not being be able to cope with the idea of growing up adds to his loneliness which is the core of his pain. When his encounters first interaction in the novel, Holden Caulfield is an uncaring outcast who sees no motivation in life. As he says to Mr. Spencer, he feels trapped on “the other side of life” (Salinger). Holden constant attempt to fit into society is hidden because of his detachment to people. His only stability right now is to search for his own individuality and to face adulthood himself. That is why

J.D. Salinger uses the motif of loneliness to show how Holden’s struggles affected him negatively and demonstrate what made Holden lonely in this book. For example, the motif of loneliness describes Holden because after his brother Allie died he kept having flashbacks about him he couldn’t believe his brother is dead, for example he says, “I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist” (pg.39). This shows how when Holden feels lonely or sad or upset he gets really triggered which causes him to have a negative reaction to the world. Another example of Holden demonstrating the motif of loneliness in the book is when he was thinking about Jane Gallagher, he says “Jane Gallagher. Jesus ... I couldn't get her off my mind. I really couldn't” (pg.32). This shows us that just like Holden’s case with Allie he feels like he misses most of the people he hasn’t seen for a long time and that once he gets flashbacks of the important people in his life it is hard for him to move on. He does not feel safe alone. For instance, at the end of the book, Holden says “Don't ever tell anybody