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The Theme of Teen Depression in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger This book study will explore the theme of teen depression in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. In Salinger’s novel, the main character, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager that experiences problems with depression. Holden is unable to concentrate and has vey little interest in talking with other people. These behaviors define the some of the psychological traits of depression, which prevent Holden from getting close to…

Adler's theory of inferiority and superiority Adlers novels besed on a calsh between inferiority and superiority.he thought that the child's experience affected him greatly as he passes through hardships. In his opinion , the child has the feeling of inferiority because he feels small and weak.this feeling motivates the child when he grows up to try by all means to reach superiority. In Adlers theory ,he cinsiders that every one who behaves as if he was superior to everyone ,has a feeling of…

In Sonny’s Blues, by James Baldwin, we start out by meeting the narrator, an unnamed, middle-aged African-American male. He is riding the subway to work and he opens his newspaper to find out that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for distributing and using heroin. Although he and his brother have been distant in the past, this traumatic event seems to make his brother real to him again. He continues on to work to teach his algebra class at a local high school in Harlem, but all…

When Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical first premiered on Broadway in 1968, American audiences didn’t know what to make of it. The story took place in New York’s Greenwich Village, during the 1960s and centered around Claude: a member of a hippie “tribe” who has been drafted into the Vietnam war and must face the choice of whether or not to go to war. While Claude’s story serves as the basic plot, Hair was a variety of topics all meshed into one production, appropriately called, a…

Emma Goldman she is an anarchist and the most activity and involved much in the society and she raised her voice to tell what happen in the USA at the time and tell many problem around it.She has success many things in her life even in the hardest time. Emma Goldman was an anarchist and most of all a feminist. She was born in Kovno, Lithuania. St. Petersburg, Russia (1882)(2).She emigrated to America (1885) and married to a fellow worker. Angry by the execute of those connected with the…

A Loss of Identity in “Sonny’s Blues” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” It can be said that every human has basic needs with the obvious ones being food, water, shelter and clothing. There are of course other needs like love, acceptance and a sense of identity, all of which are fundamental to happiness and wellbeing. A sense of identity is the understanding of who a person is, their beliefs, passions and characteristics. It reflects how they relate to others and it brings the individual a sense of…

Religion could be found in every corner of the world. It dictates what we eat, how we look, what we do or don’t do, and the morals we believe. For a lot of us religion is a big part of our lives and this could be seen in our government. Since the birth of the United States, religion has played a big part in our society, lawmaking, and culture. The U.S is a Christian based country and its morals have dictated a lot of laws. These religious biased laws have suppressed many types of people and the…

O. Henry 's three stories, “A Retrieved Reformation,” “The Gift of the Magi,” and “The Last Leaf” demonstrates the talent of this writer. In all three of these stories, unique literary techniques are used to create plot twists and unexpected turns. A common literary technique used in O. Henry 's three stories is irony, which is used to create a humorous and surprising effect. In addition, O. Henry uses foreshadowing in all three stories in order to build suspense as the reader anticipates the…

The queer community has always existed, and as long as it has existed, so has homophobia. The Stonewall riots were a direct result of the oppression of LGBT individuals, when a group of New Yorkers decided that they had had enough. The riots may have only been an isolated event, but the events that followed helped to shape history for LGBT individuals forever. Just years before the riots, these individuals were hiding “in the closet” and afraid to be themselves. It was the loud and open…

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…