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    not stay forever‚ but family‚ the family would never leave. Dead or Alive‚ blood kin or not‚ the people that you share the mutual feeling of love with will always stay in your heart. For Taylor though‚ one of the main characters in the book‚ The Bean Trees‚ she never really had much to lose. So when she starts to get more and more loved ones in her life‚ Turtle‚ Lou Ann‚ Estevan‚ she starts to get scared because there is a more of a risk of losing them. In which‚ one she does lose‚ and the other two

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    J.D Salinger uses the catcher in the rye as a main symbol because he wants teenagers to relate to his book by understanding that teenagers normally have the same hardships as Holden. To be the catcher in the rye means to save other people from depression‚ “‘ If a body catch a body comin through the rye’ It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more” (115). Holden felt depressed when he was at Pencey because he couldn’t figure out how to fit in and make friends. Instead of spending

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    Comparisons Between Catcher in the Rye and Igby Goes Down The Catcher in the Rye and Igby goes Down are texts of Bildungsroman. Throughout the to texts we are shown the elements of conformity‚ societal expectations and most prominently belonging. In both texts the protagonists: Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and Igby Slocumb in Igby Goes Down are portrayed as anti-heroes. These two characters share so many similarities that they can be perceived as the same person. Both protagonists

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    By the end of The Bean Trees‚ Taylor Greer is almost an entirely different character from the Marietta Greer that she was at the beginning of the book. Not only did she change her name to reinvent herself after leaving Pittman County‚ but she also underwent serious internal changes as well. When the book opened‚ Marietta was a poor girl from rural Kentucky who was too afraid of rejection to even apply for a job. By the end of the book‚ Taylor has become callous due to the nature of the life she and

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    The Catcher In The Rye Essay Throughout the book‚ The Catcher In the Rye‚ the theme that I saw reoccurring in the novel was the painfulness of growing up. In the book there are many cases of Holden Caulfield trying to resist growing. He does not want to grow up because he’s afraid of the unknown‚ or what’s coming next in his life. In fact his main goal is to resist maturing. He is scared of the unknown and cannot handle things that are very complicated. He likes it when things are very simple

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    The Different Side of Family Barbara Kingsolver‚ in her novel The Bean Trees‚ utilizes figurative language to emphasize on daughters and families that exhibits the harsh truth behind being a person. Lou Ann ponders this when another character named Lee Sing states‚ “ ‘Feeding a girl is like feeding the neighbor’s New Year pig. All that work. In the end‚ it goes to some other family’ ” (43). This simile that compares girls to New Year pig stresses that the effort that parents put into their daughters

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    difficult time adjusting to it. Instead‚ Holden preferred that things stayed as it was. Even after Phoebe corrected the lyrics for Holden‚ he refused to change his interpretation. The actual words were‚ “If a body meet a body coming through the rye” (chapter 22). He took no regard to it‚ because of his fear of confronting another person‚ especially with adults. He lied to gain respect from them. During the train ride in New York with Ernest Morrow’s mother‚ Holden praised him‚ “When I first met

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    Adam Bayless English 11 Advanced Mrs. Cooke September 13‚ 2011 Importance of the Title The Catcher in the Rye In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger‚ the major plot line consist of a young teenager named Holden Caulfield who is approaching the fears of adulthood. Holden is extremely lost throughout the book not knowing how to embrace adulthood and has very little assistance from adults. The reader first sees Holden’s immature behavior through his explosion from the Pencey Prep School

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    Catcher in the Rye Analysis Catcher in the Rye takes place in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s‚ written in 1951 by J.D. Salinger. Salinger implores the reader to struggle alongside Holden Caulfield as protagonist and reader simultaneously explore the boundaries and meanings of childhood‚ innocence‚ and the duality of these two identities existing in tandem. Salinger has written Catcher in the Rye to preserve the struggle to find oneself‚ and the denial of one’s growth‚ through loss‚ experience

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    discovering new worlds‚ which are extrapolated in William Shakespeare’s 1661 tragicomedy ‘The Tempest and J.D. Salinger’s ‘Catcher in the Rye’ (1951). Shakespeare’s‘ The Tempest’‚ elucidates the transformative power of planned discoveries that manifest an individual’s desire to re-evaluate assumptions and unveil fresh insights into humanity’s moral flaws. Similarly‚ The Catcher in the Rye’ demonstrates that physical and intellectual discoveries can elicit an emotional

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