The Catcher in the rye is a book written by J.D Salinger. The book is about a rebellious teenager named Holden Caulfield. Holden is lost in life and struggles to find his way out depression. J.D Salinger shows in this book the true value of having guidance in your life when one grows up. Guidance will keep one from from being lost in life. Salinger shows the importance of having guidance early on in the book. In the beginning of Holden’s story‚ Holden explains how he acts quite young for his age
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realizes that him and the ducks are more closely related than what he actually thought. Holden is worried about his future and may be subconsciously worried about his own loss of innocence and the journey he has been on shows that he is trying to lose the last of his innocence while at the same time keep it preserved in the others around him. Finally when he arrives at the lake‚ “What it was‚ it was partly frozen and partly not frozen. But I didn’t see any ducks around. I walked all around the whole damn
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the night to find Mr. Antolini patting his head in a way that he perceives as "flitty." There is much speculation on whether Mr. Antolini was making a sexual advance on Holden‚ and it is left up to the reader to decide. Holden leaves and spends his last afternoon wandering the city. He later wonders if his interpretation of Mr. Antolini’s actions was actually
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after Alaska passes away‚ we see Miles torturing himself over her still‚ asking himself things like‚ "Did she ever love me? Would she have left Jake for me? Or was it just another impulsive Alaska moment? It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it‚ and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me." (Looking For Alaska‚ p. 171). While Miles shows his immaturity subconsciously in the sense that his biggest worries revolve
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Phoniness was Holden’s Downfall Holden Caulfield sees life and the entire world as a struggle between the artificial things and those that are authentic. His main pasttime is to detect phoniness in other people’s lives and to harshly critisize it‚ as well. And‚ although he loves the purity and innocence that childhood brings with it‚ and hates the artificiality of the adult world‚ he is‚ troughout the story of “The Catcher in the Rye“‚ gradually forced into it‚ due to his surroundings as
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his house he is treated as a criminal just because of his infamous father‚ and socially he is an outcast. With the help of Freak‚ he starts to develop some confidence in learning and himself‚ but this only hurts him in the end when Freak dies.The last way Maxwell is working against his mind is that he is dependant on others. Another way Maxwell’s mind
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January 1th 1919. He proved to be an aspiring author as early as in secondary school when he began to write short stories. Several of his stories were published early in the 1940s before he left to serve in WWII. The critically acclaimed story “A Perfect Day for Banana Fish” was published just after the war in The New Yorker‚ which became the arena for most of his following work. When «The Catcher in the Rye» hit the shelves in 1951‚ it was an immidiate sucess. Having an aversion for all the fame the novel
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Catcher in the Rye is a novel told by a teenage boy‚ Holden Caulfield while he was undergoing treatment in a mental hospital. His story began with dropping out of his fourth school‚ Pencey Prep. According to the things and people he encountered in the New York City himself‚ many readers think Holden is an example of a careless and untrustworthy young man struggling with transition to the adult world. While I argued if Holden’s life story continues‚ he is going to live a productive life based on
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that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy" (page 1)‚ "I could probably tell you what I did after I went home‚ and how I got sick and all‚ and what school I’m supposed to go to next fall‚ after I get out of here‚ but I don’t feel like it" (page 213)‚ we can infer that Holden Caulfield‚ the aforementioned teenager‚ is in a mental hospital. However‚ he tells the story through flashback of a three-day period sometime before Christmas
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Growing up is generally not considered easy or desirable. In J.D Salinger’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy on the precipice of adulthood. He is resisting growing up despite the allure of sex and alcohol‚ but he despises the thought of entering a phony world. For Holden‚ his life is stuck in a never ending cycle of misery‚ alcohol‚ and a desire to hold on to his childhood innocence. His own life up to this point has been very rough - his beloved younger brother
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