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expresses his disapproval through Holden Caulfield, a reckless teenager, who feels a strong sense of hatred for adult society in the book. Holden Caulfield was also supposed to give an insight of what he thought were the right methods of dealing with children being rushed into the corrupted adult world. Holden poses as an excellent example of how children can be disturbed by the unethical effects of adults. There are some things that he believes are satisfactory with the world, and he backs up…

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 reality. He is also naïve and immature, which causes him to listen to strangers in his attempt to avoid listening to the advice of those who truly care for him. Holden’s personality is synonymous to a rubber band, he uses resistance…

all of his crazy situations and the way he handles them you begin to get the idea that he has an intense fear of growing up. Throughout The Catcher and The Rye, J.D. Salinger uses symbolism to show Holden 's fear of growing up in order to help his adult readers understand what it is like to be a teenager. He does…

Anthony once said, “Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.” In J.D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden, leaves a huge legacy for himself and the people around him with his mental illness. He hints that he is mentally ill but only says it outright at one point in the book. Holden is a 16 year old guy living in New York City. He is a troublemaker and routinely gets kicked out of multiple, very expensive private…

adulthood, responsibilities, and society Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye more clearly projects Phoniness in the adult world because of Chris’s lack of human interaction throughout Into the Wild. Holdens experiences of being alone in a large city, his negative mindset,…

writes this memoir about his own life when he was a young boy. Toby lived a difficult childhood and caused a lot of trouble because of it. He didn’t grow up with a father figure, and he was constantly moving around because his mother couldn’t stay put. Even though his childhood living situation was terrible, it doesn’t exonerate the juvenile acts he performed in his judgement. Based on what Toby went through when he was young, some readers may be tempted to blame his parental figures for the…

novel where the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, tells his story about being a normal sixteen-year-old boy struggling to move into adulthood due to being afraid of growing up. This even inspires him to want to save all the children from growing up, desiring to be the Catcher in the Rye. Holden appears to be normal, but exhibits an abundance of signs of depression throughout the story. In this book consisting of 26 chapters is Holden telling us of his experiences of a long weekend in the late…

Flight “Call me Zits,” (Alexie 1). Zits is a teenage boy facing many problems in his life. Zits says his own name does not matter because all he is seen as is his zits. Zits does not have many morals to begin with, but throughout the story he develops his own morals. We meet Zits in a new foster home in which he hates, and pushes the mother and runs off. Two critical approaches that can be seen in Flight by Sherman Alexie, are biographical and moral. One way to approach Flight is…

when is time to mature and grow out of childhood. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a coming of age novel about sixteen year old Holden Caulfield’s weekend adventure. Salinger describes Holden's extreme depression, his beliefs that just about every adult is a phony, and his protection of innocence. Holden’s most significant character flaw is him being stuck in childlike views. Some instances in Holden’s life that prove that he is stuck in childlike views is Holden's idea of putting…

on what they say and do. Although, this may be thought as of a negative character trait, Holden judges based on authenticity, which is a good thing. Therefore Holden Caulfield should be admired for his beliefs and expectations. One reason Holden should be admired, is how he looks at one of his best’s friends, Jane, and the type of relationship Holden has with Jane due to her authenticity. For example, on page 86-89 Holden states, “She was a funny girl, old Jane. I wouldn’t exactly…