What Are The Similarities Between The Catcher Of The Rye Compared To The Catcher In The Rye

People of all ages experience a transitional stage throughout life, which would be the transitional stage from childhood to adulthood usually occurring during the mid teen years of life. This phase is considered to be the time when many children start to leave childhood for the life of adulthood. During these times of change many human beings experience confusion and potential problems of growing up in the adult world. Throughout the United States many people become confused of who they are as a person growing up, such as the protagonists of The Catcher in the Rye and The House on Mango Street who both experience difficulty in leaving childhood life for adulthood life. These two characters

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.

From the very start of this essay, it is quite clear that the narrative perspective in Jack London’s “In a Far Country” is very different than the one in J.D.Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”. Both authors have managed to catch the reader’s hearts, but each of them through their specific, unique way of storytelling. Jack London has shown us the beauty and the cruelty of nature through his mesmerizing descriptions of the Great Wild, while Salinger had his own way of showing us that adulthood shouldn’t stop us from being the children we’ve hidden because of the responsibilities and problems life has brought unto us.

<br>Henry and Holden began both their stories weaker and more ignorant than they left them. How are their rises to maturity similar and different? Both stories cover a time period of about three days. The three days are greatly important, as they detail the rite of passage from youth to maturity. Such a prodigious transformation in a mere three days implies an extraordinary sequence of preceding events. Both The Catcher in the Rye and The Red Badge of Courage tell a story of one of the most relevant time periods in both of the main character's lives- their rise to adulthood. Both characters seem to have promising futures ahead of them. Holden ends his account of "the madman stuff" that happened to him last Christmas giving the impression that he will try harder in school and that he actually missed the people he criticized so harshly.

Holden Caulfield and Phoebe Caulfield are siblings in the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Being siblings, they have many similarities as well as differences. Holden is the main character in the novel, and the narrator of the story. Holden is writing from a mental hospital about his experience, “around last Christmas just before I got run down.” (Salinger, 1) He writes about his journey from Pencey Prep School, in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, to his home in New York City. Along the way he encounters many different important people to the story, one of the most important characters he encounters along the way is his sister Phoebe who teaches Holden what it means to be mature.

In the book the Catcher in the Rye and the movie Ordinary People the main characters share similar characteristics in different ways. Holden and Conrad are both faced with hard times when they lose a brother they were close with. Holden’s brother Allie died from cancer and Conrad’s brother died from a boating accident. Although their brothers died by different causes, they are facing similar obstacles because of their losses. While they are both very similar, they also are very different, they both do not have a good relationship with their parents, they are both not very motivated when it comes to school, and they both turn to violence at some points and they isolate themselves from others.

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 characters Holden Caulfield, from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and Will Hunting, from Good Will Hunting, have very similar personalities; however, they live in completely different worlds. The Catcher in the Rye is narrated by Holden Caulfield. He is a seventeen year old from New York City, and in the book, he comes to terms with his past. The story is told from a psychiatric institution. The movie Good Will Hunting is about a very intelligent twenty year old, Will Hunting, who is a janitor at a school in south Boston. The major conflict with the both of them is within their own mind. Part of them wants to connect with other people on an adult level, while part of them wants to reject the world. The main difference between them has to do with socio-economics, and how different their childhoods were. A main similarity between the two is that they push things away, because they are afraid of getting attached to anything. Another similarity is that they are both very intelligent young men, but are not necessarily good in school. Even though Holden and Will grew up in almost opposite conditions, they have many similarities when it comes to their personalities.

In Catcher in the Rye, Holden states that he wants to stop kids from running off a cliff. He is an adult, yet he doesn’t want to let go of his childish view of the world. In Willa Cather’s My Antonia, the book discusses themes of nostalgia and growing up. Through carefully analyzing My Antonia, it becomes clear that this novel mirrors Catcher in the Rye.

Catcher in the Rye influenced Perks of Being a Wallflower in many ways that makes their connection vary strongly, from the way it’s written, the tone, and the characters. Holden and Charlie both go through traumatic experiences that end with the boys being hospitalized. Not only Charlie and Holden had a connection, but so did their siblings: Charlie’s brother and D.B. takes up celebrity-like careers. Charlie and Holden relates in loosing people who are close to them. For example, they lost a family member and both of their classmates had committed suicide.

Though stark differences are apparent as well, The Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poets Society hold similar themes beyond crew cuts and preparatory schools. These include the struggle to conform, finding corruption and evil in adulthood, and having fear for the future as an adolescent. Throughout the novel, Holden continually finds himself feeling like an outcast; he attended a reputable school before he was expelled, impromptuly planned an escape from New York to live alone in the countryside to escape the world in which he lives, and was often rejected from most of the places he visits and by people he met as he ventured alone through New York. Similarly, Keating of Dead Poets Society stands apart from the rest of the faculty working at the preparatory school.

Are parents really giving their kids all the opportunities they deserve? Some would say they don’t. Generally, parents want the best for their child and want them to succeed, but a lot of the time, they don’t always allow them to do what they want to try. Several people also feel the same way. The Catcher in the Rye, Dead Poets Society, and other non-fiction sources reveal that parents often are caring and want the best for their child, but need to be more supportive of their child’s wishes.

The novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D Salinger is a coming-of-age story. It follows the short tale of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy, who throughout his experiences in the novel, changes and becomes more mature and independent. The story essentially has two Holden Caulfields, the one telling the story, and the one that the story is being told about. This essay will look at the differences and similarities between the two Holden’s’.

In the novel Catcher in the Rye and Chronicle of a Death Foretold there are many similarities involving Death or even certain conflicts. Dramatic events occurs in similar ways in both novel, in which the Authors have the same views. In Chronicle of a death foretold religion was as serious as being a part of a gang if you break a rule you’re looked upon as a trader or outsider and Angela was viewed by the town differently after her sexual intercourse (suspense). Catcher in the Rye was a book built around suspense with many reason why Holden Caulfield didn’t feel comfortable going back home which built suspense on what he was going to do next.

One of my favorite thing to do I do not have anything else to is reading. Ever since I was a child, books where a source of answers for thins I wanted to know and quench my thirst for knowledge. Yet not only are books a source of knowledge they are also a way to visit fantastical and wonderful worlds whether its Hogwarts, Middle Earth or a dystopian future. A questions that I’m constantly ask is what is my favorite book but I don’t think I have one; every book has it different appeal from the rebellious Holden in The Catcher in the Rye or Jean Valjean in Les Miserables every character its different and I think putting them on a list of whose better it’s not giving them the respect they deserve.