J D Salinger Essay

Throughout the song “Help!” by the Beatles, the singer is directly calling for assistance to get back up for the hardships in life that have brought him down. Related to the protagonist from Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden is also in need of help. The lyrics: “Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me”, demonstrates the singers signal for assistance, since he is pleading for guidance. Holden’s main hardships throughout the course of the book were fearing…

A Comparison of the Narrators of The Catcher in the Rye and “A & P” Both The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and “A & P” by John Updike use careful choices of language and details that aid in the characterization of their narrators. Salinger’s narrator, Holden, is a seventeen year old boy who is telling presumably a therapist the events that occurred after he was expelled from Pencey Prep. He tells the story in a first person “stream of consciousness” style and often goes off on…

itself is pretty meaningless to the audience, but it is very meaningful to Holden. It is a memory that he holds deep within himself and will never forget. Including this story in Holden’s anecdote about Allie gives an eulogistic vibe to the piece. Salinger uses very melancholy, yet an almost sarcastic sentence structure to support the sense of eulogy. An example would be how Holden was rambling. He would say a long sentence then a short one, then, almost instantly, he would jump to a whole new…

To start off the climax is when the main character realizes they have a problem. The climax of the catcher in the Rye would be that he always thinks about Jane because they really have a strong connection and relationship and even though it was innocent he still really enjoyed it and wanted and wants to get back with her. He thinks about her throughout the novel in many different parts of the book. So one of the major conflicts that were written in this book was that he wanted to ditch…

Salinger's young life, Salinger not being a good student had been kicked out of his school which happened to Holden Caulfield. Both of these books have a character that was almost like Salinger, both characters have tendencies to be terrible and smoke, but that was the way almost all kids were in the time zone of these books. J.D Salinger's life was like Holden Caulfield's in the book the Catcher in the Rye because there are a few things that actually went with what Salinger did. Salinger…

Salinger demonstrates Ramona’s immaturity as she uses death as a tool to get herself a new friend. Straight away this scene is jarring for the reader and Eloise as their understanding of death differs from that of a child and Ramona. Perhaps to a child death…

'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' starts out depicting the scene out of Francie's eyes looking at a tree growing outside her window. It becomes apparent to readers the family Francie belongs to a poverty-stricken. In the early chapters we find out Francie loves the library, reading, and learning to her it's like a “get away.” We also retain the knowledge that Francie's grandmother, Mary, never learned how to read or write “... but she had in her memory over a thousand stories and legends.” Mary sends…

In Catcher in the Rye, Holden decides to leave New York to head out West after he experiences a frightening feeling of “just go[ing] down, down, down, and nobody’d ever see [him] again” (217). Yet, Holden decides to visit Phoebe one last time before leaving, so he pays a visit to her school. Holden’s experience of “go[ing] down, down, down” mirrors the image of someone falling off a cliff like in Holden’s imagination as a “catcher in the rye” (191). In a way, Holden himself is a child in the rye…

“He’s dead now. He got Leukemia and died when we where up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You would have liked him” (Salinger 43). In the novel, The Catcher In the Rye, by J.D. Salinger: Holden’s younger brother dies of Leukemia. Holden never full recovers from the family loss and is affected by this through the rest of his childhood and as he continues to grow up. In the novel, the death of Allie, Holden’s brother, causes Holden expresses multiple symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.…

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in The Rye is a novel about a 17 year old boy living in a “phony” world who ventures throughout the streets of New York to possibly find purity. J.D. Salinger’s reason for writing such a controversial novel was to appeal to the teenage mind. Holden is sexually confused and struggles expressing his…