Similarities Between Black Boy And Catcher In The Rye

Through it all there can be a factor/difference that can be daunting in a person’s life and the way they handle it is eventually up to them and will effect in some way, shape, or form.

Throughout life, there are always obstacles that everyone has to overcome in one way or another. This can range from doing poor in school or encountering a death in the family. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Calvin Jarret from Ordinary People by Judith Guest have both overcame obstacles in their life. However, it has shaped them into the people they are now. Both Holden and Calvin share the similarity of isolating themselves from expressing their feelings to others, but their effort for love and desire for a different lifestyle differentiates them as well.

Both The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman have very subjective first person point of views. However, this point of view allows us to be closer to the narrator/main character. Both narrators in each story use their perspective to allow us to see a more sentimental side to the story, even though it may not be the most credible point of view.

In life we may go through hardships that take us down a path that benefits us in the future and make us stronger individuals. These hardships can influence a person’s life by making us face obstacles we don’t want to face and

In the studied works ''Into the wild'', "Anthem", and "The catcher in the rye", they all have many things in common. One of the biggest things they have in common is they each have a society they live in that greatly impacts the way they behave throughout the story. In the studied works an important element of the story and characters is the society they live in with the standards and the way they respond to it. I strongly believe this adds a lot of meaning to the story and the way it unfolds. Chris McCandless from Into the wild lived in a society that has many standards and expectations.

The Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried compare how the two main characters are Isolated and in Exile. Each book the two charters are Isolated and Exiled in different way but in some way also similar. Two young men trying to find a way to be accepted in the adult world is still a mystery to them. The loss friends, family along the way and they can’t seem to find trust in relationships. When you’re young you do not know what is out there in the world. Who would think that growing up would be so hard. My comparisons are about the main characters Holden in “Catcher in the Rye”, and O’Brien in The Things they Carried.

While Richard was growing up he was never treated like a kid, his father always saw him like a grown man. His father was a person who wanted all his commands to be done as he pleased. He is also

The next form of hunger that Richard encountered was one for literature which seemed to give him a release from the suffocating reality of his surroundings. His appetite for literature became a defining characteristic as the novel progressed. Though her effort was short-lived, a boarder at his Grandma’s house, Ella, gave him his first taste of reading. “As her words fell upon my new ears, I endowed them with a reality that welled up from somewhere within me…. My sense of life deepened…. The sensations the story aroused in me were never to leave me” (Wright 39). In light of Richard’s continued pursuit for knowledge critic Dykema-VanderArk reflects that, “Richard's reading opens his eyes… ‘made the look of the world different’ and let him imagine his life under different circumstances. Richard eventually recognizes that the social system of the South strives to keep black Americans from just such ways of thinking.” His craving for literature sets him apart from most of the black community surrounding him.

the role of a black boy. He became a black boy for the sole purpose of survival,

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However, she is only doing this in order to help Richard survive in the future. By winning the right to the streets of Memphis, Richard is growing more independent. He no longer relies on his father to bring home food because he is not coming back, and he is able to stand up for himself when the time comes. Richard becomes more independent throughout different experiences in Black Boy.

Peter Weis movie Dead Poets Society took place in the early 1950´s at a privileged private prep school for young men entering adulthood, much like Salinger's famous award winning novel Catcher in the Rye. Wiers movie has multiple unique characters that all somehow mirror Holden Caulfield, the main character featured in Salinger's work. Holden's admiration and love for the genuity of one's character strongly reflects the respect John Keating's holds for the originality that in shown through poetry of a person. Two boys, the first being Todd Anderson, mirrors braver side while Knox´s love for Chris reflect on Holden passion for Jane. These three characters in comparison to Holden best bring out some of his most memorable qualities.

There are many experiences that one encounters in his or her lifetime, but only a few of these experiences are significant enough to leave an impact on our lives. It is safe to say that these experiences help shape us to be the person we are today. With these experiences, along with how we are raised, is what leads to our development as an individual; cognitively, emotionally, and spiritually and how we view the world and ourselves. These experiences leave a lasting impression, and we refer back to them when faced with difficult situations. Whether these experiences are good or bad can change the makeup of our identity, and internal perceptions.

Throughout the book, Richard shows ignorance when it comes to race issues. He often doesn't know how to respond or act when he is being harassed about his race. This ignorance comes from his family refusing to tell him about what was happening in the world when he was a child. At one point, his mother even slapped him for asking about why there was segregation and about why his grandmother is “white” (46-48). These events and actions in his youth would lead to him being ignorant of these issues in his adulthood, which would lead to Richard being isolated from both the black and the white communities. First, one example of his separation from the black community is when Richard refuses to steal from white people. “More than once I had been called a ‘dumb nigger’ by black boys who discovered that I had not availed myself of a chance to snatch some petty piece of white property that had been carelessly left within my reach”(199). The other boys call Richard out because he refuses to steal. He does this because he was raised not to steal from white people while the other boys were raised to take advantage of their position in life and use it to their advantage. This gap between knowledge of how one should act leads to Richard being isolated from the other boys and others in the black community. Likewise, Richard ignorance of race issues leads to a rift between him and the white community.

Richard is not eye-catching due to physical deformity which he vividly describes as the cause of his misfit, and therefore acquires himself the status of a victim. No one pays attention to him because others neither find him handsome nor sexually appealing. But he magnetizes the audience, makes them complicit of his own deeds and dares it to look away.