Catcher in the Rye Essay

When adolescents are faced with the issue of ‘growing up’ many of them pounce on the opportunity to be labelled as a mature and responsible adult. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s refusal to grow up fuels his journey to explore the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood and find a place for himself in a society he detests. Throughout the novel, it is the children and adults whom he encounters, as well as his internal struggles that allow him to understand his…

The Forbidden The Catcher in the Rye Controversial themes may be difficult for children to understand or take under an educational perspective. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger creates a novel that reflects upon the questionable behavior of a defiant young adult. The unorthodox ideals, inappropriate language, and mature content represented in the novel may influence younger audiences, which result in the removal of the novel. Salinger’s novel was named one of the most frequently banned…

2015 The Catcher in the Rye If a person had the opportunity to grow up, would they? Throughout the story The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield goes through many challenges in the book. In the novel Holden struggles with internal conflict by seeing the adult world in its phoniness and it’s unbearable moments. Through the duration of the story what influences Holden Caulfield’s unreliability are his lies and deceits, his sexual identity, and his mental instability. While reading The Catcher in…

In the book, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is presumed to be an outcast because of his abnormal behavior according to the standards that society has set for him. However unlike him, Chris McCandless from the movie, Into the Wild film, was the definition of normal, but only till his graduation from Emory University as a top student and athlete. After graduation, Chris McCandless gave up his mortal possessions to charity, ridding himself of the constraints that life has brought him,…

to make himself seem older even though he wants to be ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. When making plans to go to a bar, Holden says, “Hello? I made my voice quite deep so that she wouldn’t suspect my age or anything.” However, he wanted to preserve child innocence. “…I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s what I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all that.”…

they belong to the places they are in and because of that they’re lonely, isolated from people they identify with. S.E. Hinton used her knowledge of J.D. Salinger 's book The Catcher in the Rye as inspiration for her work. The New York Times article “The Outsiders: 40 Years Later.” talks about her echoing The Catcher in the Rye along with many other popular writers…

The Catcher in The Rye The picture I decided to create us entitled “Loss” and it is all inside of Holden’s head. Holden believes that innocence is lost in growing up, that is why this image is called “Loss”. From left to right darkness slowly takes over the drawing. The light side is centered with the Museum of Natural History. In the top quote, Holden tells the reader that the museum never changes. He finds comfort in the idea of this. Holden also wishes that life worked like this, he…

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, shallow, hypocritical, inauthentic, and superficial personalities; by criticizing them all in one word, “phony”. Someone phony often times shows their fake, thin personality, when trying to impress someone. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger…

little or no money to support a single person or a family ("The Definition of Poverty." Dictionary.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2016). In our world we see poverty everywhere: in books, movies, television, even on the streets. As a class we read Catcher in the Rye and the novel is about a young man named Holden. He doesn’t struggle for the need of money but struggles socially. In real life, poverty is seen virtually everywhere. Going to Sacred Heart Cathedral and taking public transportation…

can be nice to mix things up. In the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist’s brother has died and the protagonist is in a period of awkwardness. Then, throughout the book the protagonist encounters many situations where his way of thinking is challenged. By the ending of the book, he obtains his maturity and discovers his identity. From these characteristics, it is apparent that the Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a type of book in which the…