Perfect Day For Bananafish

I was never a huge fan of children. I was never the girl to babysit all of the kids on my block. I was never the girl to spark up a conversation with a little girl or boy. I am the younger sibling and I have no younger cousins; I was the baby of the family, so I never really had to deal with children growing up. I never know what to say when I am talking to children because they do not understand the world the same way I do. Up until now, I never thought of that as a good thing. Seymour, a character from A Perfect Day for a Bananafish, is in a similar situation after returning from war with a severe case of PTSD. He talks to the children because they do not understand all of the tragedies of the world. Seymour has an easier time communicating

Moon Jellyfish are in the “Animalia Kingdom, Phylum Cnidarian, Class Scyphozoan, Order Semaeostomeae, Family Ulmaridae, and Genus Aurelia” ( Myers, 2016 ; Espinosa, ; 2016 ; Parr, 2016 ; Jones, 2026 ; Hammond, 2016 ; Dewey, 2016). The morphological description of Cnidarians are corals, sea anemones, jellyfish and hydroids. These cnidarians form a diverse phylum that contains ~9000 species, which live in aquatic (predominantly marine) environments. The phylum-defining trait of Cnidaria is the stinging cell, the nematocyte an extrusive organelle used for predation, adhesion and defense (Holstein, 1981; Lengfeld et al., 2009; Tardent and Holstein, 1982) (Steele and Technau; 2011). Also, this phylum, Cnidarians, are divided into two groups, “Anthozoa (sea anemones, corals and sea pens), which live as

Salinger’s upbringing and military experience provided the inspiration for his writing career. Salinger was born in New York, but later moved to and grew up in the fashionable areas of Urban Manhattan (Peacock, 130). ”JD Salinger” says “Salinger graduated from Valleyforge in 1936, but his high school experience there would haunt him, becoming the foundation

In fact, both J.D Salinger and William Faulkner wrote during periods of war and rehabilitation. While Seymour Glass faces the growing stereotypes of veterans and is forced to seek companionship with young children like Sybil, Darl encounters great opposition from his family members and could relate to no one but himself. Also like Seymour, Darl is a great thinker, almost omniscient at times throughout the story. For instance, Darl, out of all the characters, takes on the role of describing his mother’s death, while ironically being the furthest person away from the house. Darl’s description of Addie’s passing can be somewhat

Muriel, Seymour’s wife, and her parents, are representing the kind of America the soldiers in World War II return to. They are unaware of what exactly has taken place and what kinds of unexplainable cruelties these soldiers have experienced. On top of that, Muriel and her mother seem very self-centered and extremely shallow, which doesn’t make it any better for Seymour to return to, even though they seem to show great concern for him and his kind of behavior. For example, we are being told about Muriel that “she was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.”

His mother had taught him to not look at girls, and after the operation when he started to develop more feelings, he had a hard time talking to Alice Kinnian because he had the thought that he liked her, and that he shouldn’t. Due to the hard nature of his mother, Charlie’s emotional life was not maturing with his new-found intelligence. Emotionally, he was still a little kid. “I knew she would give herself to me, and I wanted her, but what about Charlie?” Whenever he would get near Alice, he would start to panic because he felt that there was still a part of his old self within him, keeping him from taking his relationship further with

I never saw how businesses like SeaWorld worked until watching this documentary, the amount of effectiveness, it has changed my mind about how we see animals in shows differently. The title is a hook, Blackfish, it draws an audience in, the documentary was released July 19, 2013 in New York City, and it was directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Blackfish is about the orcas that have performed at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida and San Diego, California, former SeaWorld trainers also gave their testimonials about their experiences and the experiences of the orcas. The main points were about the biggest male orca there named Tilikum and the death of SeaWorld's poster girl, Dawn Brancheau. After analyzing this documentary, the form on how we see these

In 1944, at age 21, author Joseph Heller was deployed to the Italian front of World War Two. While there, he flew 60 missions as a B-25 Bombardier; however he claims that most of these flights were merely “milk runs”. After his return, Heller expressed that he had been considering a novel about a “flier facing the end of his missions,” and in 1953 the idea for Catch-22 simply came to him. Part of the inspiration for the novel came from two friends of his that had been wounded in the war. Heller reported that “one of them told some funny stories about war experiences,” while the other friend “could not see how any humor could be associated with the horror of war,” (Daugherty 2011).

Miss Kinnian was Charlie Gordon's teacher before the operation. She was very kind to Charlie and realized how much potential he had to become smarter. When Charlie had the operation, it took time for Charlie to become smarter. As days passed Charlie became smarter and smarter. Charlie soon became so smart he did not attend Miss Kinnian's class. Although he was not in her class anymore, Charlie felt strongly for Alice, and Alice soon felt the same for Charlie. One evening when they went out for coffee Alice told Charlie that she did not want their relationship to get in the way of his learning and did not think they should see each other anymore. This was the start of a great deal of argument. Charlie then bought his own apartment. Next door lived an artist named Fay Lillman. Charlie and Fay became friends. Fay was unaware of Charlie's operation and believed he was always that smart. When Charlie's operation deteriorated so did their relationship. Fay no longer wanted to see Charlie because Charlie was not a normal man, but a mentally handy cap man. Although Charlie and Alice argued a great deal, Alice still loved him and stayed by his side in the times he needed her most. As soon as Alice heard that Charlie was deteriorating, she went to Charlie's apartment and stayed with him, until he kicked her out. Alice was the only true friend Charlie

It was Spring of 1992: Bill Ruther was sitting on an arm chair at a local coffee shop in New York City, he was waiting for his coffee and bagel that he had ordered. While he was waiting he decided to read a magazine and think of what his day might bring. Bill is a D-day veteran one of the survivors, he has tried to avoid and erase that brutal day from his memory.

Taking a satirical stance on one of the most pivotal and melancholic events in a country’s history is one of the things that makes the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller such an alluring and captivating story. Written in 1961 following World War II and preceding the Korean War, Joseph Heller strips away all of the awe-inspiring airs about war and presents it in its most unadulterated and realistic versions. Rather than telling the classic tale of the hero and lives saved, Heller describes the greed and paradoxes involved in the art of war. Joseph Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian-Jewish immigrants Isaac and Lena Heller. At five years old, his father died, an event many critics believe can be credited to his focus on the theme of death within his novels.

Soldier’s Home is a short story written by Earnest Hemingway and published in 1925. One of the most compelling features of the work is its brevity and omission. Lamb notes, “The short story’s lack of space leads to prose that relies heavily on suggestiveness and implication, allowing the reader a greater role in bringing the narrative to life” (Lamb 34). As a former journalist, Hemingway learned to write in a concise style that put the maximum information into every word, to the point of omitting information that could be inferred or discovered. In a famous 1954 interview with George Plimpton, later published in 1958, Hemingway said, “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg.

J.D. Salinger (Jerome Davis Salinger) was said by some people to be one of the best American Authors of past century. Salinger’s works reflects the many experiences he had as a child. One of the more common focuses tends to be his fascination with protecting the innocence in children.

Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) (1919- ), American novelist and short story writer, known for his stories dealing with the intellectual and emotional struggles of adolescents who are alienated from the empty, materialistic world of their parents. Salinger's work is marked by a profound sense of craftsmanship, a keen ear for dialogue, and a deep awareness of the frustrations of life in America after World War II (1939-1945).

In the movie Sybil directed by Joseph Sargent, is about a girl named Sybil who is based on a girl named Shirley Ardell Mason who has Multiple Personality Disorder. Sybil meets with a doctor named Dr. Wilbur and she helps Sybil accept her different personalities and work to ease her anxiety. Out of all her personalities “Peggy” is the most important because she gave the most information and clues to Dr Wilbur and she was one of the most powerful of all of the personalities. Peggy was the main reason Dr. Wilbur found out about Sybil’s childhood and the root of her disorder. Peggy was a little girl who didn’t know what happiness was and she was always very sad. She gave many clues to the reason Sybil has this disorder, she said things like