Similarities Between Catcher In The Rye And The Fosters

Bashar Husein
Ms. D'Angelo
ENG3U-02
November 28th 2016
Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye and Callie Jacobs from The Fosters
In The Catcher in the Rye and The Fosters, we are introduced to two of the most diverse and similar of all time. Many different aspects of the two characters are portrayed throughout the book and the show proving the conclusion made earlier on how they were diverse yet similar. For instance, Holden and Callie were similar in their love to their younger siblings, the fact that it was hard for them to accept help from others, and how they would react suddenly and with anger.
Holden's intense feelings of love for his deceased brother Allie and his younger sister Phoebe were rarely put into words throughout
This is immediately seen in the first episode, when she is released from Juvie. As she walked past the gate, she asked David, the social worker in charge, for permission to talk to Jude. When he said she could not talk to him, she got extremely upset and yelled, "What the hell? I wanna talk to Jude!" (“Pilot”). She loved him so much he was the first thing that came to mind after being in Juvie. Jude in a way was also the reason Callie was sent to Juvie in the first place. Later on, when Brandon asked her why she was in Juvie, she explained "My foster father caught my brother wearing one of his ex-wife’s dresses, and started beating the crap out of him... So I got his baseball bat and whacked him on the knees. And then I went outside and beat the hell out of his car. When the cops came, he told them he was defending himself. Nobody seemed to care much about my side of the story" (“Pilot”). Her abusive father had beaten Jude for putting on a dress he found in his closet, and Callie could not stand there and let that happen. She picked up the baseball bat, hit her dad on his knees, then went on to smashing his beloved Mustang. Sadly, when the police came, they did not believe her side of the story and instead took her in for destruction of private property. In this episode, her love for Jude was also portrayed when
He acted like any stereotypical boy. He punched whatever was in front of him. Throughout the book he had many violent incidents. The first one was the time he slept in the garage the night Allie died, as I mentioned earlier. Holden told us, "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time, and I couldn't do it" (21). This was one of the earliest moments where we saw that Holden was emotionally broken, chose anger and violence to deal with his sadness. The second incident in this book was wrestling with Stradlater. "All of a sudden--for no good reason, really, except that I was sort of in the mood for horsing around--I felt like jumping off the washbowl and getting old Stradlater in a half nelson. That's a wrestling hold, in case you don't know, where you get the other guy around the neck and choke him to death, if you feel like it. So I did it. I landed on him like a goddam panther" (16). He said he did not know why, but in reality, it was because of his love for Jane, who Stradlater was about to go out on a date with. Holden always loved her but never asked her out. Not only did he hide his emotions, but he seemed to have a tough guy act. The third incident took place closer to