There are many examples in the Catcher in the Rye‚ that show Holden’s hate toward the idea of losing innocence. Holden mentions a lot about children‚ his love for them and how he wants to save their innocence. He seems to relate more to people younger than him‚ whether they are male of female. He cares about them so much‚ becuase they haven’t lost their innocence‚ unlike adults who are all "phonies." There are three main things he does and talks about‚ that shows his concern. His fascination to save
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communication builds powerful dramatic tension and often explodes into furious argument between characters and within characters. The alienated self-existing in the world and defying convention is nothing new in literature; we only have to look to Holden Caulfield for a different generation’s depiction of teenage angst (though note there is no expectation that students studying this title will relate texts to other cultures or areas of literary heritage). However‚ DNA‚ as a drama‚ takes the negativity
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Discussion Questions 1. What specific techniques were used to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners? The prison camp used social alienation techniques to bring about the destruction of self-awareness among the prisoners. They treated each prisoner like animals and did not acknowledge them as human beings. The ability to cater to basic human functions as we do was taken away. This degradation broke the prisoners down and stripped them of their personal traits. This
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Brat Pack Blues Annotated Bibliography Perrotta‚ Tom. "The Guardian." Brat Pack Blues (2008) Web. 23 Feb. 2014. In this article‚ the reader finds that Perrotta is a very opinionated writer. He doesn’t like Holden‚ in Catcher in the Rye‚ because he is not a real-life character‚ at least the characters in The Breakfast Club were real to him. Tom Perrotta does not like the ending to the movie and after watching it again he feels that other movies are better in representing teenagers‚ such as Fast
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Labor For Karl Marx‚ every individual part is only relevant when taken within the scope of the whole. The paragraph on page 331 is emblematic of this notion because it arrives at the culmination of one of Marx’s major points in his theory of alienation: that by working in the capitalistic system‚ the worker estranges himself from other men and sets up a system of domination. In this paragraph‚ Marx introduces the notion of the “practical‚ real world” claiming that in reality‚ “self-estrangement
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assessing issues about concept on alienation. I would like to focus more on page 70 to 81 in The Marx-Engels Reader and read over and over again which are the content mostly related to alienation. The reason why I am absorbed in this topic because I notice that Marx had a specific understanding with significant experience of alienation which is found in modern bourgeois society. Later on Marx developed this understanding through his critique of Hegel. Alienation is a sociological concept developed
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In today’s society‚ modern alienation means historical discontinuity‚ loss‚ and despair‚ with rejection not only historically‚ but also socially from one’s society without previous attachments. Reasons for this might be because of a person’s appearance‚ nationality‚ or religion. An example of this is shown The Power Of one when PK suffers as the only English boy in an Afrikaans school‚ getting bullied daily. The Power of One sticks to the idea of experiencing alienation from the view of a boy who
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How did 20th century views on alienation play a part in the story’s plot? In today’s context‚ alienation refers to a large variety of mental health disorders such as anxiety‚ despair‚ rootlessness‚ apathy‚ anomie‚ loss of self‚ isolation‚ powerlessness‚ pessimism‚ loss of self and belief or values. However‚ this is very different from the 20th century view on things. Historically speaking‚ primative life was much more simple. The members of early society were connected to each other by the simple
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Alienation according to Marx Karl Marx has various elements to his ideologies of capitalism and he consistently contrasts a capitalist society to that of an ideal communist one to show class conflicts‚ one vital concept that Marx outlines in his findings is Alienation and he uses this to highlight the futility that lies within the capitalist society. This essay focuses on this concept‚ discusses its significance and explains why Marx thought of it as important‚ using relevant examples. Alienation
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