Catcher

Innocence, Compassion, and some ‘Crazy' Cliff A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J.D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and perils, which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and

“I swear to God I’m crazy. I admit it.” It is very easy to automatically assume that Holden Caulfield is crazy. It’s even a logical assumption since Caulfield himself admits to being crazy twice throughout the course of the book. However, calling Holden Caulfield crazy is almost the same as calling the majority of the human race crazy also. Holden Caulfield is just an adolescent trying to prevent himself from turning into what he despises the most, a phony. Most of Caulfield’s actions and thoughts

For my book talk I read The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. It is a fictional novel that is 277 pages long. I choose this book because... The Catcher in the Rye is about Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy retelling the events of his life that have put him into the state he is currently in. He begins his retelling right after he is kicked out of Pencey Preparatory School, the fourth school that he has flunked out of. A few days before is supposed to go home, he becomes agitated after

The Catcher in the Rye “Is The Catcher in the Rye, as a work of literature still relevant for today’s youth?” Name: Sara Sigurdson Course: English A1 Supervisor: Mr. Peter Steadman Word count: 3851 Candidate number: 00136022 Table of Contents Content Page Number Abstract 3 Introduction 4 The Actual Catcher in the Rye 4 The Sexual Matter 5 The Caulfield Family 6 Narrator and Protagonist 8 Role Model 9 Mr. Antolini 10 Targeted Audience 10 Guidance 12

Hi, my name is Justine Money and over the summer I read catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger. Catcher in the 2 This book is set in the 1940's 3 Catcher in the Rye is about a teen boy, holden Caulfield, who wants to make a connection with other people, and every scene shows him trying to do this, but every time he fails. 4 Holden is a 16 year old boy from New York, and has recently been expelled from many boarding schools. 5 He is found wandering the streets of new york city because he doesn't

J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye is a classic American novel. The novel is based in the time period of the 1950’s. It’s a first person telling of a teenage boys life after his brother passes away and he is kicked out of his fourth school. Not wanting to attend school anymore with a bunch of “phonies” he decides to have himself a little vacation before returning home to his parents. On his night out on the town he acts the way a teenager would act when alone with a good sum of dough. He goes

For my book talk I read The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. It is a fictional novel that is 277 pages long. I choose this book because it is a classic and because I heard that it appeals to an array of different audiences. The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy retelling the events of his life that have put him in the state he is currently in. It all started after his brother Ally died when he was just a young child. He was never able to truly heal

going to work everyday, dealing with undesirable people, and being part of a stiff society. However, mediums do exist between these two contrasting worlds. Unfortunately, Holden Caulfield, an adolescent struggling with growing up in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, is not aware of these mediums. To him the two worlds seem to be as different as heaven and hell with no purgatory in between. Holden has no positive adult role models, his only concern is preserving

In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, the characters help portray many themes. J.D Saligner creatively infused his work with varying themes. Holden unknowingly magnifies the importance of the themes, of which he is often times oblivious. This novel is sophisticatedly written in a manner that allows us to see all the themes clearly. The themes portrayed in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger include phoniness, psychological alienation, and futile protection of innocence

The Catcher in the Rye: Freudian Approach A young boy loses his even younger brother too early in life. Ensuing is a downward spiral and an attempt to overcome mental illness. Events escalate until he ends up in a mental hospital, where he begins to share his story. Whether he recovers or not, the reader will never know. However, the focus is on the character’s incentives for his actions, not the consequences. Within Sigmund Freud’s idea of a psychoanalytic approach is a focus on defense mechanisms