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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caulfield has strange behavioral tendencies. The main character, Holden, suffers from mental illness after suffering from everything he has gone through. His mental illness is triggered from depression after his brother, Allie, had passed away. Depression can be caused by many different things including a loss or death, which is what Holden goes through in “Catcher in the Rye,” a novel written by J.D Salinger. The protagonist;

The Catcher In the Rye, a magnificent and extraordinary for the time being novel written by J. D. Salinger contains multiple symbols, the pivotal one being the title itself. In this essay I am going to explain the meaning and impact of the title as a scheming representation of Holden’s (the book’s protagonist) motives and philosophy. For most of the plot, the story takes place in a vast, yet gloomy setting of New York City in the 1950’s. The The author, portraits the eccentric, in times sinister

Plot Summary Catcher in the Rye is a story about a teenage boy named Holden, and is set in the 1950s. the story opens with him asking an unkown figure if they want to hear a story that happened around Christmas. His story starts in a private school named Pencey. He is forced to go to this school after being kicked out of four other school, and is now failing four out of his five classes. This causes him to be kicked out of the school. He decides to go talk to one of his old teachers to say goodbye

Cap, Carrousel and Catcher: The Maturing Path of Holden Caulfield I. Introduction The Catcher in the Rye is often regarded as “a rite of passage for American adolescents” (Pruchnic 49), in which Holden Caulfield grows up from a “romantically cynical, cynically romantic teenager” (Steed 2) who clings to his elapsed childhood with “extreme emotions [and] bizarre reactions” (Privitera 203) to an adult who turns from the past, moves into the present and looks toward the future. This paper seeks to analyze

The Catcher in the Rye a novel written by J.D. Salinger, the book starts off by Holden Caulfield, main protagonist, talking about his experience alone the weekend before he went home. Holden struggles to fit in society, communicating with others but most of all he is struggling to find himself. Holden lurks for advice from different people in order to get some insight of their perspective. Even though Holden seems to be embracing the growing up mentality yet he wants to keep his innocence. Holden

The Catcher in the Rye “This sentence I’m reading is terrific” I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood (28) | Sarcasm is a typical teenage behavior that is funny to some, but annoying to others. In this sentence he uses sarcasm. | “Jane Gallagher,” I said. I couldn’t get over it. “Jesus H. Christ.” (41) | Jane Gallagher is an important person in Holden’s life. As soon as he hears her name mentioned he gets happy. | He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946.

The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye is taught in english classrooms all over the country. However, its crudeness was looked down upon by many parents that resulted in the frequent request to ban the book from being taught. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is one of the greatest works of literature, but was also very controversial. The Catcher in the Rye tells the story of Holden Caulfield, a teenager facing psychological trouble. Expelled from his school at 16, he goes on a journey

In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger captures struggle of Holden Caulfield with the fight between adolescence and adulthood. The story is told from the perspective of Holden Caulfield, who can be described as a rude, stubborn, not very intelligent and negative. Through the novel we see the world in Holden's eyes and his perspective because of the noel being written in first-person singular. The author also uses sentences nd the way they are written to express Holden as a person. The short sentences

protesting its reading every Sunday morning. So why protest The Catcher in the Rye? The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that told the story of a problematic student attempting to steady his life, a notion most real students can relate to. Catcher in the Rye, just as the Bible, has scenes dedicated to disapproval acts, but they are not the message of the story. No one can hear the message over all the protest. Catcher in the Rye has

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’