Joan Bauer

Response Paper #4 The folk music of the Civil Rights Movement “came out of tradition, common experience, and generations of resistance” (Dunaway 2010: 140). The songs used throughout the movement derived from the shared experiences and struggles of African Americans while connecting “the gentle, idealistic world of folk music and the integrationist world of civil rights” (Dunaway 2010: 145). Songs, such as “We Shall Overcome”, were put through the folk process, where a song is passed on and alterations

"Catcher in the Rye" written by J.D. Salinger, is a novel in which the author creates much irony in the way he presents the loss of innocence or the fall from innocence in his main character, Holden Caulfield. While Holden clearly believes in protecting the innocence of children in society, he himself cannot seem to hang onto his own innocence. Throughout the novel Holden shows his love and protection for childhood innocence, the irony that he in fact himself may be losing his own childhood innocence

shaped the course of the world. Traditionally, these people have been adult males. Occasionally, however, these historical icons are females and during rare moments are children. One of these unfathomably cases is the young french women named Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, the legendary saint that was burned at the stake, was a young farm girl who joined the Hundred Year War and died as a hero for her believes. The young war maiden was born in the small French village of Domrémy around January 6, 1412,

Both Tim O’Brien and Holden Caulfield have told lies in their stories to try and preserve the truth and to make the readers feel more emotions, to understand a deeper meaning in their stories. They both express how their stories are either completely made up, “I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier. Almost everything else is invented”(O’Brien 171), or the fact that, “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”(Salinger 16), and that

The movie, Joan of Arc, that stars Leelee Sobieski is about a 15th century teenage girl hears voices from god who tells her what she needs to do. She ends up leading the French forces against the English. Although Joan really did hear the voices, this movie is not completely historically accurate. The first inaccurate part of the movie is it shows Joan first hearing the voices in Church. Throughout the movie, almost every scene has something inaccurate about it. The movie starts off in 1412 in

In The Catcher in the Rye, a harrowed teenager named Holden Caulfield can’t accept the fact that everyone has to grow up. He gets kicked out of his old school and sets of on a wandering adventure throughout a bunch of cities including New York and Agerstown, Pennsylvania. As we get to know Holden, we find out that he believes that every adult in some way is corrupted in a sense. He also believes that children are the only genuine thing in the world due to their innocence and their purity. Salinger

Friendships are like goals; they are easy to make but difficult to keep. J.D Salinger’s character Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye is a lonesome sixteen-year-old. Salinger’s novel follows the story of Holden as he tries to rescue children’s innocence from being lost to the crippling world of adulthood. Although he perceives his friends as fake, Holden tries to flatter his roommate Stradlater and old friend Sally Hayes into becoming a person like Jane Gallagher: someone that will listen

Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, not only tries to figure out his identity but also his life’s purpose. Inside of Holden Caulfield’s progression through life lie “patterns of insubordination and unwillingness to grow up”, which will only dissolve when he realized and accepts the reality of his personality and purpose (Tolchin). His identity and purpose, once discovered, shape the way he communicates and interacts with others. Once Caulfield discovers and accepts

Holden’s Coming of Age Journey “Then I went over and laid down on Ely's bed. Boy, did I feel rotten. I felt so damn lonesome”(Salinger 48). Holden Caulfield is the main character in the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, where he is telling his coming of age story. He struggles with depression after his brother's death and continues to struggle with it throughout the book. Holden is a troubled character that goes through many experiences that helped him learn lessons about the world.

Flappers What is a flapper? The flapper is one of the most essential parts of the 1920s. They represented a new type of woman. Whether in attitude, attire, or slang. The 1920s flapper demonstrated how women could transform into something that is a part of the modern construction of women’s identity. The flapper was a major part of “The Roaring Twenties”. The flapper was how young women sought to define themselves. Prior to the 1920s American women were seen in a very traditional light