Joan Baez

In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is a teenager who is in alienated in society due to its pretentious values. Holden suffers from loneliness and alienation because he is unable to associate with the phonies in society. Holden also plays a crucial role in depicting the judgmental values of society in which he chooses to not take part of. Early into the novel Holden faces the alienation in the culture he is surrounded in. When planning on meeting his former history teacher Mr. Spencer,…

The never ending insecurities that build up into a ball, and roll down to crush people’s emotions, is a hard feeling to stop naturally. Many people may worry, get anxiety, or just grow a thin border of fake personality, to protect and hide their real selves, from human judgement. Holden, the sixteen year-old boy with internal struggles of the human nature, is the main character of The Catcher in the Rye; a novel written by J.D. Salinger. Holden often fights his vexation against people with fake,…

Teenagers are often strictly structured by the society to be on track in life, but some can suffer easily from depression due to their inability to achieve even the basic standard like not get kicked out from school. In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield demonstrates as an example of a drop out student. As a sixteen years old teenager striving in New York in the 1940s, Holden frequently mentions his loneliness and depression as he repetitively faces problems that he is unable to…

Ruby Munguia Mrs. Kehrmeyer AP Language 4 April 2018 Understanding the Mind of Holden Caulfield The inner workings of the human mind is hard to understand, especially if it is a teenager who we are trying to understand. Although life as a teenager is chaotic, many of us have not gone through what Holden Caulfield has. With the many series of events the readers of the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger could come to the conclusion that these all were the reason as to why…

Tal Usvyatsky Period 2 Therapist Report Holden Caulfield’s Problems In the juxtaposition of Holden Caulfield and the average adolescent, many of Holden’s prominent traits are abnormal and rather disconcerting. Holden’s depression and fixation on innocence are byproducts of the loss of his brother, Allie. Additionally, Holden’s dislike for social standards fuels his nonconformist attitude and ultimately furthers his feelings of depression. Equally as troublesome is Holden’s difficulty in…

While trust is a somewhat common theme in modern novels, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time manages to show how this idea affects people who live under atypical circumstances. Haddon tells the story through the eyes of Christopher, a fifteen-year-old autistic boy whose view of life, as well as his understanding of the world, is drastically different from that of any other teenager. Christopher is extremely sensitive, and is only comfortable in familiar surroundings and with…

Symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye Like all great pieces of literature, J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye owes much of its fame to its ability to connect with the reader’s emotions. “Holden’s discontents and diatribes are infectious because we all have our irascibility and fastidiousness, and Salinger has managed to play on us by summoning up the perfect details” (Castronovo). The troubled teen story of Holden Caulfield depicts a young man unable to face his own reality. A struggle, many…

Christine de Pisan was an important woman during the Middle Ages. She was a French scholar who was unlike other women. In that time, women had small roles in society and relied on their husbands or family members for everything they needed. However Christine was one of the few who made her own living and changed people 's opinions. She was the first feminist and supported equal education for everyone. Being born into nobility, she didn 't firsthand experience the troubles of lower class women,…

Many people have fears regarding the act of growing up. For a small group of people, during their teenage years, these fears of innocence lost can be crippling, constantly affecting actions and moods (Participial phrase). They are reluctant to give up the innocence of the past and accept the cold, hard reality of the adult world. Holden Caulfield is one of these people. J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, follows Holden’s actions over three days throughout New York City as he attempts…

The book is set in the 1950 's and starts with the main character, Holden Caulfield, narrating the story while being in a mental or sanatarium of an unspecified location. Holden is overlooking a sporting event on a nearby hill in first sentence. At this time, Holden is sixteen years old and has already failed out of three schools. He is currently attending Pencey Prep school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. At Pencey Holden has failed four out of five classes and is once again being expelled from…