His Last Walk

very depressed and lonely. Due to his mental state he failed his exams, again got knocked from another school, and had quarrelled with some mates. Through the pages of the novel we can see that Holden is trying to make good relationships with family members and some acquaintances, but at the same time he pushes them away due to his behavior. He really loves his family, especially his younger brother and sister. Holden’s character development has been influenced by his family and what happened…

readers have suspected that renowned author J.D. Salinger used his own feelings and personal experiences to create main characters, Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass. Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, deals with a troubling past and has many internal problems and emotions that he keeps hidden from the few friends he has. These feelings stay bottled up in Holden throughout the story and could be the reason for his illogical decisions towards the end of the book.…

and doubts just like Holden. These along with other less significant differences make Holden Caulfield rather irrelevant to modern teenagers. It is clearly seen that academics were of little worry to Holden. He showed this by failing all but one of his classes and by having previously been kicked out of school for poor grades. In the modern world there is a huge emphasis on doing well in school to set oneself up for going to a good college and obtaining a good job. This is validated by most…

In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield is trying to find his sense of direction. Holden, a growing adult, finds himself unable to accept the responsibilities of one. Holden describes the adult world as sinful and corrupted and he avoids it for three reasons: his hatred of phonies and liars, his inability to accept adult responsibilities, and his refusal to let go of youth. Eventually realizing that there is no way to avoid adulthood, he can do nothing but accept…

he tells her good things about her son and how he fits in well at Pencey, even though he says “Her son was doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey, in the whole crumby history of the school.” He also tells her his name is Rudolf rather than just telling her his real identity. Holden has no reason to lie to Mrs. Morrow, but he decides to do so anyway. Also, Holden assumes that everyone he knows and sees is a phony without ever meeting them. He thinks that actors are phonies and…

game, one to be played by the rules” (8). Holden disagrees, though, he believes that playing by the rules means to allow society to control you and your life, which is why he resists growing up himself. He, too, admits that he “act[s] quite young for [his] age sometimes” (9). A teacher also plays an important role in a child’s development. Being given difficult facts of life, a child’s innocence and trueness tend to be destroyed. This is one thing that Holden is afraid of, so he tries to fight…

Education, learning, and high school is something all teenagers have to deal with. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about Holden Caulfield, a boy who repeatedly gets expelled from school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold Spirit Junior’s freshman year of high school where he chooses to leave the reservation for a better education. Education is often seen as a door to a brighter future, and some embrace this and others choose to…

many of things in his life. Holden battles between him becoming an adult, and staying a child. Part of him wants to grow up and experience adulthood, and another part of him wants to stay a child and keep his innocence. In the story, Holden’s parents really show him much attention, they used their money to help him out with any problem he was having. They thought their money could cure him, but really he just needed to be shown love by his parents. Since before Holden was born, his parents…

boy who gets kicked out of school because he is not doing well. He finds the world around him ugly and through his doubts, he tries to protect himself from the disappointment of adulthood. He has a mental breakdown when he realizes that is it is impossible for him to separate childhood from adulthood. Throughout the novel, he is very mean and disrespectful to everyone around him, except his sister, Phoebe. In the second novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, written by Zora Neale Hurston, the…

mind very much if we don’t do it? Do you mind very much?”(96). Holden felt pressured from the outside world and his classmates to lose his virginity, he had felt like everybody else was doing ‘it’ except for him. This pressure caused him to hire a prostitute so he would finally be able to say he was experienced. The peer pressure from his classmates made him believe that he needed to lose his virginity too in order to be a…