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Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a known mental health condition triggered after experiencing or seeing a life-threatening event. It is very common around the world, and my new patient, Holden Caulfield, has this kind of disorder. A friend of mine recommended him, knowing that I will probably help him. Throughout our session, I could tell that Holden doesn’t have a normal mind. The death of his brother Allie and witnessing another death, his friend Jame Castle, who committed suicide, may

novel were introduced by Salinger because of similar life experiences that he had gone through. One of the events that contributes to Holden using the word “phony” throughout the novel in order to show his hatred for society, was contributed to because of the experiences Salinger had while serving as a sergeant in the Cold War. Salinger as a child was also moved between prep schools just as Holden was. The audience is shown that being stuck in a place like New York City as a teenager is a stressful

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a 2012 film based on a book by the same name. The film, released on September 21, 2012, pulled in $228,359 its opening weekend and $17,738,570 total. The screenplay for the film was written by the author of the book, which is very uncommon but makes for a more accurate movie. The film was primarily filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and stars Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a boy, Charlie, who is battling multiple

The death of Caulfield’s brother, Allie, clearly leaves a devastating effect on his life and acts as the central cause of his mental illnesses. Allie died of leukemia at the age of eleven in his family’s summer home in Maine. Holden, thirteen at the time, leaves his comfortable life distraught over the loss of his brother and brakes his hand punching the windows out of the garage of their home. He misses Allie's funeral due to the fact that he was in the hospital for psychiatric evaluation, thus

Catcher in the Rye deals with a lot of topics that many adolescents go through as they’re growing up. Ever since Holden’s brother died nothing has been the same for him. His world was turned upside down. After getting kicked out of his boarding school, he has to struggle through many problems in the book. As he’s wandering around New York he deals with innocence, his fear of change, and depression. Even though the story takes place in a few days, Holden ends up learning a lot about himself in the

edge of a cliff at the end of a rye field and catches the children who are running around in the rye field with no clear vision. He determines that this is what he wants to do with his life in a figurative way, which means that he wishes to keep the last bit of innocence in children that is left in them. This shows his passion for kids and explains why he seems to only like children and everything else is negative in his

Alienation: it’s a touchy subject for many. For some, it’s second nature to alienate themselves. But, for others, it’s a concept foreign to their knowledge. In the book Perks of Being a Wallflower, main character Charlie goes through multiple stages of self-discovery all the while experiencing highschool firsthand. In Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield leaves his boarding school on a whim while trying to discover his true identity. Throughout both of the novels, the concept of alienation

1. Holden is leaving Pencey, although he does not consider it to be a safe place. He does not feel like he has a safe place anywhere. Although he doesn’t feel like it is a safe place, he tries to make it feel like he might have felt safe there at one time. 2. He is dealing with the death of his younger brother, Allie. He notices his behavior changing, but he doesn’t acknowledge that this is the reason for it. He instead blames the world for his changes instead of his loss. 3. Everyone, students and

The Catcher in the Rye is a book that’s written by J.D. Salinger and narrated by a sixteen years old teenager named Holden Caulfield. At the beginning, Holden has just been kicked out of Pencey Prep because he’s failing his classes, and it’s not the first time or first school. He went to say goodbye to his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Then, he tells us about his brother Allie and how he died, and this is the reason behind Holden’s problems. Holden’s roommate is dating a girl Holden knows, Jane Gallagher

The book is narrated by the main character, Holden Caulfield, while he is in a mental hospital or a sanitarium of an unspecified location. The book is set around the 1950's while Holden is sixteen years old. The narration begins on Saturday after classes end in the school, Pencey Prep school, in which Holden attends. Pencey is Agerstown, Pennsylvania and Holden has failed four out of five classes leading to his expulsion. Pencey is the fourth school that Holden has been expelled out of because of