Crazy Eddie

At the start of Great Expectations Pip Pirrip is an inexperienced child, who is unaware of what is around him. He views the world as a safe place and underestimates the capabilities of the people around him. His curiosity and naivety have prevented him from not yet realizing the different types of people and the dangerous actions the human race is capable of. After being threatened by one of the men who escaped a prison ship, he is still curious as to what prison ships are, as well as the kinds…

Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger, who tells a story of a teenage boy undergoing a period of confusion, just like every teenager. Trying to handle the aspect of growing up and gaining the feeling of comfort and confidence with who he is and his personality. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger implies symbols to express Holden’s struggles with immaturity throughout his whole life. In his opinion everyone is phony and fake. Holden acquires symbols that help him with confidence, comfort…

The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a boy who is named Holden who struggles in life and making his own decisions but, he finally gets his life straightened out after he’s in a mental hospital. The Catcher In the Rye By: J.D. Salinger is a story about a teenager who is explaining his life story while he is in an Asylum. He has three things besides Phoebe that helps him get through his struggles including, The red hunting Cap, Allie’s Baseball Mitt and the Carousel these all represent…

Holden begins his story at Pencey Preparatory, an exclusive private school (fictional, though based on Salinger's own experience at Valley Forge Military Academy) in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden ends up missing the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his history teacher…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character Holden often has difficulty connecting and being secure enough to pursue deep relationships with others. His lack of confidence and usage of excuses to avoid communicating with the people in his life make him very insecure. However, he often shows what he wishes he could do in the way he treats objects, particularly a “Little Shirley Beans” record he uses as a representation of his relationship with Phoebe. Although the record is…

Growing up can be a scary, confusing journey for most children, whom may not have people to encourage and provide a sense of security for them. J.D Salinger has greatly expressed the struggles of growing up “alone”, in his astonishing coming of age novel “The Catcher and the Rye”. Salinger utilizes the red hunting hat, the duck in the lagoon and The Museum of Natural History as symbols throughout the novel to show the worries of growing up with the story of Holden Caulfield. Holden, when he is…

The definition of phony is not genuine or fraudulent, which can describe many people. Including Holden Caulfield the protagonist, he is a 17 year old boy who has was expelled from his school Pencey. After a fight with his roommate Stradlater he decides to leave school early and go to manhattan to avoid telling his parents. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is struggling with being surrounded by phonies and being a phony himself. Holden talk about many people being phony but there were…

“Little kids are just dumb, the smart ones and the slow ones. They do dumb things. They say what they think. They haven’t learned enough yet to say what they don’t really think. That comes later, when kids begin to turn into people and find out that they are alone” (LeGuin 3). As children, people lack the knowledge of what to say and what to hide. When they grow older and face reality, they become more guarded and, sometimes, bitter. In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Indian Education,” the…

Introduction Holden Caulfield was a mysterious and a rather inept person. It seemed that he could not function in normal life. He had an attitude that was pessimistic and unhappy. He hated most things and referred to most people as “phonies.” There was one thing however, that was expressed in the book by J.D. Salinger, that Caulfield loved. Holden cherished innocence. Caulfield represents the core of all men and women. At the bottom of every one’s heart, there is a great void; a hunger and…

Holden Caulfield: Phony or Real? Holden Caulfield embodies many of the ideas from The Most Human Art. Caulfield and The Catcher and The Rye have connected many people from different backgrounds due to Caulfield ideas resonating. Caulfield embodies many ideas from The Most Human Art, but he especially allows people to see stories through his eyes, realizing the consequences of our actions and teaching us how to be human. Caulfield throughout the book allows us to experience how it is to be a…