Holden Kid

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Kids these days, have a lot of problems with their family, friends, school and all that good stuff. We can’t really blame them because, each of us will have to go through that phase at one point in our life. One of them happens to be Holden. There’s nothing wrong with him, the things that are causing him problem are the things surrounding him and effecting his perspective and the way he thinks. Holden is in a stage where everything in his life is hitting him at once and that’s the reason we are investigating and finding out the best solution for Holden.
Holden is a very bright kid I must say, but he is also a teenager who is going through and dealing with a lot of things at the moment. He is the type of kid where he says he doesn’t care about anything and anyone but deep down inside, he does care. For the most part, the person that he cares for the most right now in his life is his little sister Phoebe. The reason that Holden does not like the adulthood was because in his mind, he thinks that everyone who was an adult was really phony and when people lie, in Holden’s
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Judging people is something we human beings should not do to each other, but Holden on the other hand, judges, and criticizes people in his own way. For example, when he left Pencey, he had a lot of friends there, but he keep criticizes them for all their faults, but whenever Holden does something wrong he never criticizes himself. When he left while everyone was leaving, he was just about to cry but instead he screamed to the top of his lungs, “ Sleep tight, ya morons!” This is when he’s trying to convince himself that he’s not sad for leaving and that also he didn’t “need”

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