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It’s true that the bond between humans and animals have grown powerful over the years. And emotional support animals prove that. Emotional support animals are companion animals that a medical professional has determined provides benefits for an individual with an emotional disability. An emotional support animal can be almost any animal, but most of the time, they are everyday dogs, or just like your pets at home. Have you ever just seen your pet and get automatically relaxed or happier?…

Symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye Like all great pieces of literature, J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye owes much of its fame to its ability to connect with the reader’s emotions. “Holden’s discontents and diatribes are infectious because we all have our irascibility and fastidiousness, and Salinger has managed to play on us by summoning up the perfect details” (Castronovo). The troubled teen story of Holden Caulfield depicts a young man unable to face his own reality. A struggle, many…

sister, Phoebe. The end scene is a model for Foster's depiction of a typical rain scene. Holden takes his sister, Phoebe, to ride on a carousel. Despite it pouring, Holden stays on the bench to watch his sister, while everyone else goes under the carousel roof for shelter. Even though he gets soaked, he feels so happy at the sight of his sister riding on the carousel, that he feels like crying. Throughout the story, Holden has been struggling with the shift from childhood to adulthood. He wants…

he cannot protect every child. Phoebe, a ten-year old girl, “becomes his catcher” instead of an adult like Mr. Antolini as Holden expected. At the end of the novel when Phoebe is on the carousel, she is “unchanging, forever safe, forever loving, forever innocent”. Because Holden encouraged Phoebe to ride the carousel, he was once again successful at being a catcher. She is safe from the curses of adulthood that Holden…

he states, “wouldn't have gone inside for a million bucks. It just didn't appeal to me” (Salinger 122). He suddenly realizes that he's too old for the museum. This also happens when he and Phoebe go to the carousel in the park. As he sees Phoebe try to reach for the gold ring on the carousel he thinks “the thing with kids is if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it” (Salinger 211). This means that you have to let kids grow up. As he apprehends this it clicks for him…

Ray Bradbury, an American author, lived from 1920-2012. Bradbury was born in the town of Waukegan, Illinois and began writing when he was young. Bradbury is mainly known for two of his major pieces of writing: Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury uses repetition, symbolism, allusions, and imagery to create books that are fascinating and grab the reader’s attention. Most importantly, dichotomy is a style that Bradbury uses in both Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This…

The Catcher in the Rye is a social commentary that criticizes the superficialness of adulthood, through the eyes of the rebellious protagonist: Holden Caulfield. Holden is an academic failure who carelessly flunked out of his preparatory school, Pencey Prep, due to intolerable grades in each of his courses except English. Holden, following his academic liberation, continues his life, traveling around, criticizing the world around him in a cynical tone, attacking the phoniness and unbearable…

achieves his innocence through Phoebe because she is so young and free that Holden wants to keep her that way forever. Especially when Phoebe rides the carousel in the end. Holden knows the carousel only moves in circles and not forward, symbolizing children not growing and staying innocent as they are. Holden never wants Phoebe to stop riding the carousel because she looks so innocent and…

Catcher in the Rye and Pleasantville Comparison Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, once said, “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Rohn believes that if people fail to take risks in their life then it will be lacking fulfillment. Some people may resent taking risks because they let the fear of bad things that can from it overwhelm them. However, when people don’t take chances they are incapable of making…

Innocence is the quality or state of being free from sin or moral wrong.Things that are innocent have moral goodness and are pure. In the book, The Catcher in the Rye, characters, objects and images are used to symbolizes an idea. The author ,J.D Salinger, utilized these three things in the book: Holden’s brother, Allie, Holden’s dream and the Holden’s sister, Phoebe, to represent innocence in the book. First off, Allie was the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, beloved brother who died of…