Catcher

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,…

trying 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.”…

After annotating a short passage from “The Catcher in the Rye”, by J.D. Salinger, I’m going to make an inference about the main character named Holden Caufield. With hardly any attention from his parents, Holden has some attachment issues. So far in the story, Holden’s parents have hardly been mentioned and are known to be out of town. After leaving Pencey early, he decides to stay at a hotel before going home, knowing that his parents won’t care that he’s gone. Therefore, when he gets close to…

year-old boy 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…

self-actualization.”- Bo Bennett. In the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Holden learns to view his little sister as independent and self-actualized where she can lose her innocence and still be stainless. The book is about a character named Holden, he is constantly trying to identify who he is and how he views people he cares about until in the end he recognizes that innocence is in a cycle. Some things repeat again and again and they are clearly important. The symbols in the Catcher in the…

J.D. Salinger started writing The Catcher in the Rye after he was released from a mental hospital. This period of seclusion led to the creation of a character that tends to remain solitary. Individualism as a form of escape is a predominant theme in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye because of Holden constantly being lonely, his fascination with the ducks and where they go during the winter, and lastly Holden’s representation of Salinger’s life and ultimate escape from societal expectations…

together in a tiny cabin, that they would be happy. At the end of the conversation he insults her and then leaves. He sneaks into his parents house to see his sister Phoebe. She asks him what he wants to do with his life. He says he wants to be a catcher in the rye, and stand at the edge of a cliff to catch children when they are close to falling off. His desire is to keep them safe. She lends him money, and he stays with a teacher for the night. He gets weirded out and leaves. He meets…

Have you ever been scared to go into adulthood ? In “the catcher in the Rye” Holden caulfield is a teenager who is scared to grow up out off his innocence to adulthood. He seems to run away from many of his problems. He wants to be heard, however he doesn't want to listen to what others have to say. He wants to save kids from growing up and going into adulthood as he thinks the adulthood is cruel. I believe “The Catcher in the Rye” is still relevant to today's teens as the actions taken by…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the reader listens in on a psychologist’s appointment with Holden Caulfield, who is telling the psychologist about events leading up to something happening before Christmas. Through the event, the reader can begin to notice how Holden is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and how he really cannot fit back into society. Unlike most cases of post-traumatic stress, Holden did not go to war or was a victim or rape; he was merely a witness to a…

childhood into adulthood, is a tough pill for some to swallow, and men like Holden Caulfield almost lose themselves in the process. Mr. Caulfield makes mistake after mistake, due to the fact that he is trying so hard to delay the inevitable. In The Catcher in the Rye, the only published novel by the mysterious J.D. Salinger is a coming of age tale in which Holden, a 16 year old teenager in the late 1940’s, embarks on a journey in New York City, after being expelled from his boarding school.…