The Catcher In The Rye: The Dead Poets Society
The Catcher in the Rye/the Dead Poets Society
The Catcher in the Rye/The Dead Poets Society
Holden Caufield, narrator and main character in The Catcher in the Rye, is a young man coming of age, searching for who he is and what he wants to be in life. Holden wants to escape the conformity and others expectations. He came from a fairly wealthy family whose parents are estranged in a way. John Keating, a new English instructor played by Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society, uses bold teaching techniques to motivate his pupils. This causes his students to rebel against school and parental norms. Could a teacher like Keating with his un-uniformed teaching methods tap into Holden’s potential? In this essay I will argue that he could not.
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About halfway to the bathroom, I started pretending I had a bullet in my guts. Old Maurice had plugged me. Now I was on the way to the bathroom to get a good shot of bourbon or something to steady my nerves and help me really go into action. I pictured myself coming out of the goddam bathroom… with my automatic in my pocket, and staggering a little bit. Then I’d walk downstairs… couple floors-holding on to my guts, blood leaking all over the place… As soon as old Maurice opened the doors he’d… start screaming at me… But I’d plug him anyway.” (Salinger 135-6).
It’s no wonder in my mind that in the end he wound up in a sanitarium. Current day medical diagnoses in my eyes would be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I believe that this was caused impart by his brother’s death and the withdraw of his family on the matter. Losing someone close to you in life can carry a large burden mentally, especially at a young age like …show more content…
However, I believe if Holden was one of Keating’s students he possibly would have gone crazier. Holden would have thought of Keating as his favorite teacher and bonded with the anti-authoritarian philosophy. In the Dead Poets Society Keating urges his students to seize the day, which is sort of what Holden does when he goes off wandering the streets of New York after he gets kicked out of school. I think Holden would have turned more rebellious, like the character Charlie Dalton from The Dead Poets Society. Charlie’s motivation by Keating turned into bold acts in attempts to get himself kicked out of school. Holden was kicked out of school due to failing classes, but under the motivation of Keating I think Holden would have been kicked out due to acting out more severely against persons of
The Catcher in the Rye/The Dead Poets Society
Holden Caufield, narrator and main character in The Catcher in the Rye, is a young man coming of age, searching for who he is and what he wants to be in life. Holden wants to escape the conformity and others expectations. He came from a fairly wealthy family whose parents are estranged in a way. John Keating, a new English instructor played by Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society, uses bold teaching techniques to motivate his pupils. This causes his students to rebel against school and parental norms. Could a teacher like Keating with his un-uniformed teaching methods tap into Holden’s potential? In this essay I will argue that he could not.
Holden …show more content…
About halfway to the bathroom, I started pretending I had a bullet in my guts. Old Maurice had plugged me. Now I was on the way to the bathroom to get a good shot of bourbon or something to steady my nerves and help me really go into action. I pictured myself coming out of the goddam bathroom… with my automatic in my pocket, and staggering a little bit. Then I’d walk downstairs… couple floors-holding on to my guts, blood leaking all over the place… As soon as old Maurice opened the doors he’d… start screaming at me… But I’d plug him anyway.” (Salinger 135-6).
It’s no wonder in my mind that in the end he wound up in a sanitarium. Current day medical diagnoses in my eyes would be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I believe that this was caused impart by his brother’s death and the withdraw of his family on the matter. Losing someone close to you in life can carry a large burden mentally, especially at a young age like …show more content…
However, I believe if Holden was one of Keating’s students he possibly would have gone crazier. Holden would have thought of Keating as his favorite teacher and bonded with the anti-authoritarian philosophy. In the Dead Poets Society Keating urges his students to seize the day, which is sort of what Holden does when he goes off wandering the streets of New York after he gets kicked out of school. I think Holden would have turned more rebellious, like the character Charlie Dalton from The Dead Poets Society. Charlie’s motivation by Keating turned into bold acts in attempts to get himself kicked out of school. Holden was kicked out of school due to failing classes, but under the motivation of Keating I think Holden would have been kicked out due to acting out more severely against persons of