Carousel

Throughout the story, Holden constantly battles with the need to protect innocence. Holden’s compulsive and obsessive behavior is a result of his trauma from the lost innocence of his brother. Holden watches his younger sister Phoebe ride a horse carousel and states, “I was kinda afraid she’d fall off the goddam horse… The thing with kids is, if they want to grab at the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.” This is when Holden finally accepts that everyone makes mistakes…

Maud Flynn was at the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans. The girls received word that a woman named Misses Hawthorne was going to adopt a small girl of eight or nine years old. Maud was quite disappointed as she was eleven years old. One day at school, Maud kept swinging her feet and was told to stop. She continued swinging them and it resulted to her being sent to the outhouse for punishment. Maud sang songs in the outhouse to keep warm and one day an elderly woman heard her. The lady…

The Importance of Growing Up Growing up. It’s one of the reasons you were brought here to become who you are. It is something that is meant to happen but there is always those few individuals that always try to avoid it much like Holden in the book, “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger. Growing up can be a struggle at times. Growing up happens to everyone. It’s a part of your life and you cannot take that away. Whether you're younger or older or whether you like it or not. It can be scary,…

The unforgettable Christmas Ah, good old Christmas, time for cheer and listening to "Jingle Bells" blaring through the radio in every store and the convivial event of lights and large Christmas trees overwhelming the surroundings. Christmas brings such a lovely, warm feeling that 's difficult to describe. The vibe of the holiday just makes me feel jovial. I adore Christmas, well the idea of it. I watch "Home Alone" all through December because I envy Kevin 's huge family. Even though they drove…

“Vittoria Mio Core” by Carisimi was also performed by Evan. Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic features of the Latin oratorio and was a prolific composer of motets and cantatas. He was highly influential in musical developments in north European countries through his pupils and…

watch you poison yourself. (Bradbury)" Halloway continues by doing good to him and embracing him which drowns him of fear and sadness. When Disney portrays Mr. Dark's death, we see him die by electrocution and old age by riding to far forward on the carousel, and thus or a third time we see one of Bradbury's messages get completely thrown out the window by Disney. Overall Bradbury's…

his opposition. We get an update on Bruno and his ever elastic arm still reaching for the lighter. Quick cuts are made with every thunderous thud produced by the rackets. This is one of the peaks of suspense in the film only to be rivaled with the carousel and murder scenes. We come to the conclusion of Bruno, or his superhero pseudonym Mr. Fantastic, finally finagling the lighter with his two fingers and bringing it up to the surface. The camera also rises to the surface to show that the crowd…

In Octavia Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower she writes about how religion is something that is everywhere, and there truly hasn’t been a society in history that has functioned without one. All throughout Lauren’s childhood, she was forced to follow a religion that she did not believe in due to the fact that her mother and father did believe in it. So Lauren decided to create her own religion called Earthseed. This religion has the main idea that the seeds of life can be transplanted, and can…

and growing up in it. Holden is not successful with growing up and becoming an adult, but he is successful in discovering what it really means to be a child or an adult. He finds his breakthrough on these two concepts while watching Phoebe ride the carousel in Central Park. As Holden…

order to get what he wants, regardless of what consequences result from his decisions. Ben does not let society beat him although it seemed to frequently dominate him. In contrast, immediately after he recalls watching his sister Phoebe ride the carousel, Holden writes, “...this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I’m going to apply myself when I go back to school next September” (Salinger 234). Unlike Ben, Holden is still unable to answer this question of where he is going…