Ducks

The transition from childhood to adulthood is inevitable. It is an experience that tests teenagers to their breaking points. Most adults cherish childhood innocence, as they have experience with an onerous adulthood. At a young age, parents teach their children that the world is a perfect, Utopian society. As children mature, they realize that the once ‘perfect world’ was nothing but a false, sugar-coated take on the harsh realities of life. The protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden…

the city Holden is neither a child anymore nor an adult. This complex inner world of Holden shows the raging atmosphere of the modern world and it’s human. For example, Holden’s first concern when he comes and takes a taxi to the hotel becomes the ducks in the Central Park. He…

proven by how much Holden brings up the duck pond he visited as a child, wondering where the ducks go in the winter. He says, “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to the zoo or something. Or if they just flew away” (18). Holden’s fascination with the ducks shows how childlike his mind still is. Although the obvious answer to his question is simple, the ducks migrate, nobody tells him because…

precisely the fact that it points in two opposite directions” and ultimately, Shakespeare is pushing us to choose one of the two sides of interpretation (34). Rabkin compares this idea to the known illusion of the picture that, on one side, shows a duck, and when turned 90 degrees, shows a rabbit. Rabkin believes that we can look at both views…

About a year ago my step dad came home with a dog. It was probably six weeks old I'm not for sure. When he brought him home I had a holy-cow-look on my face. We did not have a name for him so we decided to name him after my great grandpa his name was Harvey. My step dad told me he had bought it for me and him to go hunting so he could be our hunting dog. So every day I would try to take him outside and play fetch with him but he really didn't understand the concept of bringing the ball back he…

narrative given my Holden Caulfield. We will discuss what his narration reveals about the Holden and his character as well as whether we can trust his narrative. Salinger also uses the settings in which the Holden finds himself, and the symbolism of the ducks and fish in the lagoon to illustrate Holden’s feelings of loss and isolation. The setting I have chosen to consider in terms of his isolation which is often caused by a fear of change, The symbolism was explored in terms of how Salinger…

cuisine for over 3,000 years, has remained the status quo of luxury as well as many rendezvous, adorning the banquets of many socialites and even gracing the laminate table tops of american housewives. Foie Gras is french for “fat liver”,usually of a duck or goose, that has been loaded with fats and starches to create the biggest, buttery of livers. It is then seared or used as a pate, and sometimes at the most…

Come Away to the Water “When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.” These words by Ralph Waldo Emerson behold transcendentalist value in the perception of nature. He describes nature as a female being, and gives her the ability to “create geniuses.” The transcendental movement emerged in the Antebellum period of America with the philosophical reform movements of the 1830s. Transcendentalists placed value on the serenity and spirituality of nature, the vitality of…

of the blizzard that hit on Armistice Day back in 1940 could have been, in more ways than one, prevented based how advanced the technology was at the time. Having temperatures in the low 50’s in the middle of November was the last lucky chance for duck hunters…

In the novel The Catcher in the Rye authored by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager who refuses to accept that he is becoming an adult. Holden is obsessed about being a child and refuses to stop horsing around. He chooses to place himself between the world of simple innocence and complex adulthood. Holden is the narrator and he chooses to tell the story in his own contradicting manner. Holden controls his experiences and his narrations of the same are distorted from…