Crazy Sexy Cancer

Prevailing Mishap Everyone in life has different types of adversity from sports injuries to a bad breakup; challenges come in all types and in all magnitudes. Adversity is when someone goes through hardships. Those who conquer adversity often acquire the following traits: strength, optimism, versatility, and courageousness. Overcoming adversity is diverse for everyone; the following people took big risks in facing difficulties; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Yoshiko Uchida and Kris Carr, a wellness activist and a cancer survivor, and they were all successful in doing so.…

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” (Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind) Patrick Rothfuss analyses how childhood innocence and the lack of responsibility can be irresistible. For some, transitioning from the simplicity of youth to the daunting reality of adulthood can be a demanding task. Holden Caufield in The Catcher in the Rye and…

Holden is immediately unimpressed with Sunny’s maturity; how she was “jiggling this one foot up and down”, she “never said thank you”, and she “had this tiny little wheeny-whiny voice” (123). He also notices that she appears very young, and said things that were really childish. This ends up making him feel “more depressed than sexy” (123), and he decides not to have sex with her after all. The depiction of this young girl making money as a prostitute seems to upset Holden, and he ultimately…

The Treatment of Women by Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye Women, the existence and treatment of, have been a controversial conversation for decades. Before the feminist movement, women were housewives. They were mothers, they cooked for their family, and cleaned the home. These stereotypes have had a negative impact on the way men view women. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s opinions on women are shown through his interactions with the female gender. As Holden Caulfield…

Throughout our lives, all human beings are forced to navigate from the world of our carefree simplistic childhoods to the more terrifying complex world of adulthood. For most people, this journey is fearsome and full of struggles and obstacles that they must overcome in order to venture to the other side. No matter how difficult this journey is, growing up and becoming an adult is necessary for our life experience. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character Holden…

The teen-aged years act as a boundary to either permit or prevent one from reaching adulthood. While some find the transition to be smooth, others become stuck in their past, remaining tied to their innocent childhood. Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, is an iconic representation of the American teenager. Holden dwells in the past due to his personal struggles and the difficulty he has understanding controversial life topics such as death and sex. The Catcher in…

It is not always actions that speak louder than words. As a young man transitioning into adulthood, one may be greatly influenced by society in their choices and actions. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is a young man learning to express his own beliefs, but lacks the confidence in himself to do so. Throughout interactions with others it is made overt that though one may have their beliefs and values, without the confidence to express them, one may be left feeling…

An obsession with innocence leaves one predestined to be wedged between a world of childhood and that of adulthood. In JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye we are introduced to one of the most complex protagonists of literature, Holden Caulfield the antihero. Holden’s fixation with innocence leads him into a desperate search for connections to people who portray childlike and pure characteristics to which he feels he can identify with. Throughout the novel, Holden struggles to avoid conforming…

knowing she was a prostitute and all” (Salinger 107). The green in the dress symbolizes innocence and it is ironic because she is a prostitute and young and not at all innocent. Holden gets upset thinking about how she is so young but has so much experience. He does not have sex with her, even though this is a chance for him to lose his virginity, because he does not want to lose his innocence or take anymore of hers. He wants to be a “catcher” for Sunny, the prostitute, even though she has…

The Catcher In The Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger, which digs into many controversial ideas all throughout. While the audience is being presented with one piece of evidence, there is often something that will immediately contradict this point. Often, this was due to the fact that Holden Caulfield, the main character, was questionable in his thoughts and actions. For example, throughout the book, the audience can find that he calls many people “phonies” but falls into some of the…