However, the narrator tries to rid herself of imagination by becoming friends with the popular kids. Throughout the story, the reader can detect how the narrator does not become fully mature and how it impacts and affects those around her. Childhood is meant to be pleasant and creative, but becomes detrimental as people grow and change…
Adolescents all have their own ways of transitioning into adults. In one way or another, we all lose our childhood innocence, whether we like it or not. Many people wonder what this stage in life may be called. ‘’Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The certain age at which this transition takes place changes in society, as does the nature of the change.”…
The Catcher In The Rye At some point in one’s life, they go through the struggle of growing up. The factor of stress, pleasing your parents as well as peer pressure start to sink in. We can see just how adolescence affects and changes one in the novel The Catcher In The Rye. Throughout the novel, The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, the reader can infer that childhood adolescence as well as the loss of innocence shapes the protagonist, Holden Caulfield.…
J.D. Salinger wanted to make a statement about the vulnerability of innocence as well as highlight the struggles a teenager faces when confronted with his future. He does this by creating a character currently dealing with a quarter life crisis; Holden has no clue what he’s going to do with his life, is severely depressed and is in constant conflict with growing up and adulthood. Holden Caulfield is confronted with an unfair challenge; like most modern youths, at the tender age of 16 he faces the the impossible choice of what he’ll do in life. First of all, it is cruel and immoral for him to be dealt with this issue as he is still stuck in a child-like mindset and even references how people his age are “practically children” (Salinger 147).…
Sometimes, the transition from being a kid to a teenager means that the person goes through many to numerous changes in their body. There are 2 stories that depict this exactly between 2 boys. The boy in Pleasantville´s name was David, and the boy in Catcher´s name was Holden. When these 2 boys finally see their importance in society, they then work to give the society what it was lacking.…
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes”(Prather). Finding oneself in an era of change may lead a person down a complicated and frustrating path. Adolescents undergoing this development are faced with social standards set by older generations and often times are vulnerable to high levels mental stress. For instance, in J.D Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield struggles with this transitional stage. The young boy’s perspective of the world around him is skewed after a series of misfortunate events, which he still has difficulty acknowledging are portrayed throughout the novel.…
“People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public,” (Brian White). In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, we follow the endeavors of a 17 year old Holden Caulfield as he struggles to find himself. He begins the book as a perceptive but disinterested youth who, after being expelled out of one of many preparatory schools, finds himself wandering the city of New York. Throughout the story, Holden strives for adulthood but at the same time being unable to truly escape his naive childhood.…
Some teenagers reject growing up, which can lead them to depression and failure. Occasionally teens do not want to face adulthood and have trouble going through adolescence. J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye reveals how one teenager, Holden Caulfield, avoids the adult world and have desire to disappear. Salinger often uses language of depression and name-calling to express Holden's fear of growing up and need to escape. Holden constantly feels depressed throughout the novel because he does not find himself in the adult world.…
Due to our own human nature, people learn the best through their experiences, both positive and negative. It is important for teenagers to understand the process of maturing, especially through how their actions can affect other people. A Separate Peace should not be banned and should be used in high school curriculums because it is a relatable story of young adults maturing through experiences.…
Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu written by Yi Shun Lai is a story concerning a young Taiwanese-American woman, living in Manhattan, seeking her place in the world through a variety of self-help books. The novel was written in the form of a diary from the main character’s perspective. The story follows Marty, who has moved to New York from Taiwan when she was five, at the beginning of the novel she has a job in Manhattan working in advertising sales for a magazine. Although she is remarkable at advertising, it is not her passion. She left her previous job as an illustrator and now works at this job in hopes of gaining her, hard to impress, mother’s approval.…
The American teenager is an individual created by growing multiple cultural changes in our society. In his book The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, author Thomas Hine describes this stage of life as energetic and exciting, adding that teenagers carry qualities our culture simultaneously loves and fears, such as boldness, greed and being idealistic (Hine, p. 10-11). The behavior of teenagers is influenced by a multitude of factors. One of those factors includes social class, which can influence how teenagers socialize, as well as how they are treated in their education endeavors.…
This also means to just move on and be more mature. If Josh and JB remembered this throughout the book, they would have never had gotten into this feud that was going on for most of the book. When you become a teenager, you start to realize that you have to start acting more mature so that you can be liked by people. This can be good or be bad depending on how seriously you take it. You go through many changes when you become a teenager, but attitude is a big part of it.…
Becoming a teenager means that one must have once been a child. And in childhood, most of us learn right from wrong. We are taught by our parents, teachers, churches and neighbors all about right and wrong. Sometimes we are taught using time outs, or through cautionary tales about children who failed to learn the virtue of behaving properly.…
All around the world, adolescent children roam the earth confused and lost between the stages of being a child and becoming an adult. The confusion and problems that every child faces is what shapes them to be the person they will become. J.D Salinger took an adolescent child’s experience and made it come to life as readers experience what the narrator of the story struggles through and how the narrator faces all the confusion of an adolescent child. In the novel A Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger represents adolescence as a time of uncertainty and confusion as the narrator struggles to walk the line between childhood and adulthood. Holden expresses his uncertainty about the adult world through the use of the word “phony”.…
We have an undefined status in society, we are no longer children, but are also not considered adults. Nonetheless we deal with people more directly, having to grow up with our friends and others. The life of a teenager is not as easy as commonly perceived, especially in regard…