Life's a journey. It is one that entails immeasurable joy, while also contains much sorrow. Life often has many unpredictable outcomes. Life frequently ushers people towards outcomes that could be beneficial to them, yet just as often misleads people to a disadvantageous and heart wrenching path, causing pain and sorrow to the hearts of many. Between the two literary works of MAUS and The Catcher in the Rye, sorrow burdens the hearts of the protagonists. Having both encountered countless instances of loss and suffering, they share the grief of a lifetime of sorrow. Yet despite the amount of sorrow both of them had to trudge through they still eventually found peace thinking of the positive moments between those them and those they lost. Still,
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Just as Holden experienced grief and loss from the passing from his brother, so too did Artie with the loss of his elder brother, Richieu. Artie never met his older brother, yet felt that he was insufficient of filling the void that was left with the passing of his brother. His parents were never able to grapple with the fact that their eldest son had passed away. Their grief permeated through Artie and he was left grief stricken as well. The combination of losing the brother that he had never had, the chance meeting as well as the suicide act that his mother whom he loved dearly committed resulted in Artie being consumed by grief and insufficiencies, one of them being Arties feeling of not possessing the ability to surpass his parents expectations of Richieu. The loss of a sibling is nearly the same in the book The Catcher in the Rye. Holden had lost his brother Allie to leukemia nearly three years before Holden begins narrating his story. Holden had loved his brother as Artie had loved his mother and likewise developed the feeling of his abilities being insufficient to the eyes of his parents. That’s why Holden doesn’t “ever tell anybody anything”. The attitude of his parents towards him makes him feel as though “if you do” begin to talk to people about your emotions, “you start missing everybody" (49) even more than before. Artie related to the situation the same way that Holden did, yet unlike Holden he still …show more content…
This bond between siblings entails a friendship among the two siblings. Even when there are rivalries amid the two of them, they truly do still love each other. Although Holden and his brother Allie had only begun to deeply understand each other for a short period of time before Allie passed away due to leukemia, Holden’s undying love for his brother is unbroken. He demonstrates this when he mentions his sister, Phoebe, that although he knows that Allie is dead, he won’t stop liking him. He said that "just because he’s dead” that he wouldn’t ever “stop liking him… Especially since he was about a thousand times nicer than the people he knows that're alive"(171). This is one of the many times that Holden praises Allie throughout the book. Similarly inn MAUS Artie has feelings of love towards Richieu. Although the two of them never meet the feelings of love Artie has towards his deceased brother are made clear from his reactions after hearing about Richieu. This sort of unconditional love between siblings is something that most people nowadays need to learn from, since the negative feelings expressed between siblings should be more
Just as Holden experienced grief and loss from the passing from his brother, so too did Artie with the loss of his elder brother, Richieu. Artie never met his older brother, yet felt that he was insufficient of filling the void that was left with the passing of his brother. His parents were never able to grapple with the fact that their eldest son had passed away. Their grief permeated through Artie and he was left grief stricken as well. The combination of losing the brother that he had never had, the chance meeting as well as the suicide act that his mother whom he loved dearly committed resulted in Artie being consumed by grief and insufficiencies, one of them being Arties feeling of not possessing the ability to surpass his parents expectations of Richieu. The loss of a sibling is nearly the same in the book The Catcher in the Rye. Holden had lost his brother Allie to leukemia nearly three years before Holden begins narrating his story. Holden had loved his brother as Artie had loved his mother and likewise developed the feeling of his abilities being insufficient to the eyes of his parents. That’s why Holden doesn’t “ever tell anybody anything”. The attitude of his parents towards him makes him feel as though “if you do” begin to talk to people about your emotions, “you start missing everybody" (49) even more than before. Artie related to the situation the same way that Holden did, yet unlike Holden he still …show more content…
This bond between siblings entails a friendship among the two siblings. Even when there are rivalries amid the two of them, they truly do still love each other. Although Holden and his brother Allie had only begun to deeply understand each other for a short period of time before Allie passed away due to leukemia, Holden’s undying love for his brother is unbroken. He demonstrates this when he mentions his sister, Phoebe, that although he knows that Allie is dead, he won’t stop liking him. He said that "just because he’s dead” that he wouldn’t ever “stop liking him… Especially since he was about a thousand times nicer than the people he knows that're alive"(171). This is one of the many times that Holden praises Allie throughout the book. Similarly inn MAUS Artie has feelings of love towards Richieu. Although the two of them never meet the feelings of love Artie has towards his deceased brother are made clear from his reactions after hearing about Richieu. This sort of unconditional love between siblings is something that most people nowadays need to learn from, since the negative feelings expressed between siblings should be more