1) Exposition Holden Caulfield is a 17-year-old adolescent and the protagonist of the novel. He describes the events occurring in 2 days around Christmas time of the previous year. He gets expelled from the Pencey prep school for failing in four subjects. He narrates what happened after he had left the school and why he had left it two days earlier than scheduled day. 2) Conflict This boy has an ongoing process of conflict in his mind regarding the good and the bad‚ truth and the lie and the ethical
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Taking Life One Day at a Time During the years of adolescence‚ children tend to conjure up ideas of what life will be like as an adult. Some dream of becoming a firefighter‚ some a teacher‚ but young Henry Hill is not like most children. He dreams of becoming a mob member and spends his time fantasizing about the cars and women that will come with the title. In the film Good Fellas‚ Martin Scorsese uses repetitive violence and poor decisions to show Henry Hill that material possessions and status
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life is just a depressing way of living. Each opportunity Holden achieves he somehow finds a way to mess it up. In Holden’s perspective life seems really unfair to him. Ever since his little brother died‚ life turned upside down for him. Since the day Holden left school he went through many tough events that made him go back into the past. Holden does not want to grow up. Holden`s personality is very unique. In fact Holden`s personality is the culprit of why he does not want to grow up. Since Allies
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narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden is not specific about his location while he’s telling the story‚ but he makes it clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital or sanatorium. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas‚
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The Theme of Loneliness in The Catcher in the Rye Stephen King once said that alone was the most terrible word in the English language. That may be so. However‚ in The Catcher in the Rye‚ we see loneliness through a wholly different point of view‚ that of its protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield. The solitude that Holden experiences is a type of seclusion from the rest of world that is more or less self-inflicted. His inability to understand or be understood by those around him has led him to weave a
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The Catcher in the Rye‚ a novel written by J. D. Salinger‚ is set around the 1950s. It is narrated by Holden Caulfield‚ and follows his three-day journey in New York after flunking out of Pencey Prep. The story centers around Holden‚ a 17 year-old protagonist‚ and the transition from innocent childhood into phony adulthood. Considered a coming-of-age novel‚ it deals with complex issues of identity‚ belonging‚ death‚ and alienation. Salinger uses symbolism in the text to convey these themes to the
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exact same way‚ he refuses change therefore refuses to progress. The Catcher in the Rye‚ a novel published in 1951 by J.D. Salinger‚ is about Holden who after being kicked out of a prep school for failing most of his classes goes to New York for a few days. Throughout his time there Holden encounters many problems as he struggles with the idea of having to grow up. In addition‚ Holden tries to fabricate wild escape plans in order to avoid the inevitable reality of maturing. Although The Catcher in the
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The Catcher in the Rye Essay Bertrand Arthur William Russell once said‚ “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Every day‚ thousands of people have an emotional or psychological breakdown. It can be spontaneous or it can be built up and that person can leave signs that would show an oncoming breakdown. In the novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is a 16 year old troubled boy who
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-Chapter 6 M: “People hate it when you insult them.” CD: Holden is insulting Stradlater by calling him a moron and Stradlater gets angry at him. -Chapter 7 M: “Saying goodbye can be heartbreaking.” CD: Holden starts sort of crying when he took his last look down the corridor because he is going to miss Pency even though he hates the place. -Chapter 8 M: “Mothers are blinded from love to their child’s faults.” CD: Holden talks to Mrs. Morrow who seemed like she might not know how terrible of
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style‚ is about Holden‚ and all the troubles he has encountered through school‚ family‚ friends‚ and basically life. Holden has been expelled from a private school in Pennsylvania because of failing classes‚ and decides to go to New York for three days before going home to his disappointed parents. At the beginning of the novel‚ Holden seems to be like any other 16-year-old young man. But the novel progressively displays through various examples of symbolism that Holden has many problems coping
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