Cliff

Symbols are shared are every story and play an important role in the story. Symbolism is included in stories in multiple forms. The novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is about a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, travelling around New York City to discover himself and his purpose in life. The film, Into the Wild, was based off a true story about a man, Chris McCandless, leaving his hometown and breaking away from society to begin his great Alaskan journey. Chris 's journey revolves around his desire…

Often times humans will follow what their hearts want rather than thinking the situation through. In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield, a 16 year old boy, who failed out of Pencey Prep, tries to follow his heart to make everything perfect. Holden assumes that all children are innocent and perfect without noticing the truth. He tries to protect their innocence by following his heart to do good for all children, but always thinking about this shortly made him depressed and it…

backed up only to trip. His hands found the edge of the cliff. Hansel looked up at his father who loomed above him. He looked bigger, and more frightening than ever before. “I should have ended this a while ago,” his father yelled. Then he placed his foot on Hansel’s hand and pushed it off. “AHH,” screamed Hansel now only dangling by one hand. His father placed his foot on Hansel’s hand and then shouted “Goodbye”. Hansel’s hand dislodged from the cliff and he was falling.…

when he got near us we start hiting him Jaysean was hidding in a tree. Lance dropped his stick and start puching him the man droped his knife and I picked it up but by time I had it in my hands he kicked me down the hill I was hanging off of a cliff then the man punched Lance I was screaming help the man start walking to me I heard jaysean crying in the…

This book starts out with a new character named Jill Pole, she is at school and is being chased by bullies. Eustace sees her and decides to help her out, they run along and find their way running through a doorway that lead them into Narnia. While exploring Jill starts walking along an edge and when Eustace tries to "save" her and actually ends up falling off and getting blown away by Aslan. Jill walks along and finds herself at a stream, there she meets Aslan and he tells her four signs to…

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald writes from the perspective of Nick Carraway to critique society’s perpetuation of materialistic avarice, which creates socioeconomic division and inequality. Fitzgerald employs negative capability to subtly highlight Nick’s dissatisfaction with his own livelihood and identity; Nick often refuses to divulge the complete depth of his thoughts, relying instead on ambiguous language. Most notably, Nick writes, “I’m inclined to reserve all judgments…. Reserving…

He explains that “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye...And I 'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff” (191). The rye field is Holden’s representation of childhood, and the cliff represents adulthood. Holden exists out of place and lonely between these two realms. This illustrates how he is being forced to face his greatest fear, adulthood, but remains teetering on the edge because he…

Although most children appear to want to grow up, most do not. In fact most kids are extremely afraid to grow up. This is certainly the case for 16 year old Holden Caulfield. At the beginning of the book The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden finds himself being kicked out of boarding school yet again. Instead of doing the reasonable thing, he decides to run away and roam the streets of New York City all alone. He has some wild adventures along the way. Including but not limited to;…

After many sit down sessions, this was one 27 hour speaking with Holden Caulfield. This far in the 3 week session applied,I understand that this patient had been suffering from Clinical Depression. Clinical Depression is a medical illness that causes you to consistently feel down and have loss in interests, causing you to feel, think, and behave differently which can lead to a variety of physical and emotional changes or problems. Holden’s depression all started when his brother Allie passed…

become speechless and nod. Tears fill Zabdiel eyes as he turns around and walks away to our nest. I sigh and sit at the cliff side for what feels like forever. In the morning I walk over to our nest to find Zabdiel is missing. I quickly grab a cluster of leaves and start to run. I look everywhere for Zabdiel, up the trees, by the rivers, I ask everyone I see. I go back to the cliff we were sitting at last night. I look out to the valley seeing cheetahs running what looks like they are racing. I…