Fermat's Last Theorem

Throughout the novel, J.D. Salinger shows us that Holden fears growing up and has a mental breakdown as he transitions to adulthood. He doesn’t want other children to experience the "phoniness" of the world and become corrupted by society. While he was talking with Phoebe, Holden says that he wants to be a catcher in the rye, to save the children from falling off the cliff. What Holden means by ‘Being a catcher in the rye’ is that he wants to protect children’s innocence from entering the world…

Have you ever got advice, but not listened to the advice you received. In Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger a novel about a kid who flunks out of five schools and does not want to face the hardship of being an adult is finding it hard to comply with his thinking. In Rudyard Kipling poem if it shows .many life changing stanza that have significant meaning. While Holden faces difficulties in dealing with becoming an adult, judging on first sight, and not being truthful. Growing up and becoming an…

2. In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Holden is in a bar after wandering around in the city for a while. He glimpses three women and attempts to give them a seductive and "cool glance," though it only makes them "giggl[e] like morons." By using Holden's typical colloquial and vulgar way of speaking and making the women giggle at his underwhelming attempt at being sexy, Salinger highlights Holden's youth and inexperience. Instead of speaking eloquently and politely, Holden simply says what is…

In J.D. Salinger’s best selling novel, Catcher in The Rye, he utilizes equivocation alongside despair to block out true progress. For example, Holden Caulfield, the main character of the book, uses ambiguous language to hide his current health state. He struggles with making progress, yet at the same time reverting said progress. The issues he face are not because of the trauma he has lived through, but rather how he deals with it. Because Salinger incorporates equivocation and despair in…

The Catcher in The Rye The picture I decided to create us entitled “Loss” and it is all inside of Holden’s head. Holden believes that innocence is lost in growing up, that is why this image is called “Loss”. From left to right darkness slowly takes over the drawing. The light side is centered with the Museum of Natural History. In the top quote, Holden tells the reader that the museum never changes. He finds comfort in the idea of this. Holden also wishes that life worked like this, he…

"I felt so.... happy.... the way old Phoebe kept going around and around" (213). In the novel by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield tells his story of getting expelled from Pencey Prep and his experience resisting to conform to society. Social Construct is an image of a 'perfect person'. People want to follow the social construct which leads them to act like phonies because they believe that in order to fit in society they must be dishonest, judge others, and be sophisticated. In the novel The…

If one word were to sum up the existence of Salinger's iconic character, Holden Claufeild from The Catcher in the Rye it would be loss. Holden experiences one loss after another, from the loss of his younger brother Allie, and therefore the his childhood innocence, to the loss of a positive perspective on the world and an ability to believe in those around him. If one message were to be taken from the tragic and sometimes stagnant, exploits of Holden it would be that growing up and the loss of…

Catcher in the Rye Theme Analysis The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger follows Holden Caulfield, a sixteen year old boy who was just flunked out of Pencey Prep, around New York City. The reader learns about his deep hatred for adults because they are all phonies and his love of kids because they remind him of innocence and make him “less depressed”. Throughout the book, Holden is secluded and desperate for some kind of connection, and can only seem to connect with little kids. Salinger uses…

Holden consciously chooses to withdraw himself from society – does not fit in *Self-protective tactic Purposefully detaches himself from struggles with the people around him – way to purify him from the phonies of the world This is how he functions within society ➢ The character, Holden Caulfield alienates himself from society o Chooses seclusion ➢ Or the theme of alienation is revealed through Holden Caulfield, as he consciously retreats from society ➢ Isolation: physically, mentally, and/or…

n the Catcher in the Rye, Holden is trying to find his way throughout his teenage years. He is our first person narrator in the story. The whole theme in this novel is somewhat depressing but sometimes we need depressing. It helps us realize the problems in our own lives. This book really portrays the feelings of teenagers, and the lasting affect that it hasn't left till right now. The occasion in this novel is his story of the worst weekend of Holden Caulfield's life. He had run away from…