His Last Walk

Nicholas Sparks’s A Walk to Remember is a coming-of-age novel in which the protagonist is developed from a rebellious adolescent into a mature adult. Landon Carter, grows into a responsible man after he experiences his tragic love for Jamie Sullivan. After reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor, readers might interpret certain events in the novel based on the elements that Thomas C. Foster finds significant in understanding a story. Sparks uses character markings, a mysterious illness,…

man unable to face his own reality. A struggle, many can relate to. Since the character isn’t able to come to terms with his feelings, Salinger uses symbols like colors, rain, and places of significance to display the emotions and values of Holden Caulfield. One of the most prominent characteristics…

Holden as he leaves his school, travelling through New York City alone in a depressed funk. Ultimately, Salinger uses Holden’s language to illustrate the theme that an absence of close relationships and feelings of alienation and loneliness pose a danger to adolescents. He demonstrates this message through Holden’s flashbacks and language of depression. Firstly, Salinger uses Holden’s flashbacks to demonstrate the importance of…

A Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield feels unhappy due to the phonies which create his own misery. Wherever Holden goes he is surrounded by people who he has trouble coping with and relating to. The ones he encounters that do not act genuine or sincere send him spiralling into an abyss of isolation and hatred towards the world. Holden has left many schools such as Whooton school and Elkton Hills because of his views on the people there being phony. He cannot prosper in an environment where…

skinny; also he is dark and mysterious. In reality though he is just a kid in need of love and advice. Nico’s childhood is full of misery, pain, and very little happiness. He spends a lot of it trying to bring back his sister, backstabbing people, and helping them. He redeems himself in the last books of the two series. In the first series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Nico and Bianca are introduced in the third…

catcher in the rye, Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy terrified of adulthood. He is resenting the changes in his life and The novel is told from his perspective as he looks back on a bleak December before he entered the institution where he is now. The ending of The Catcher in the Rye is ambiguous and that appropriately concludes the novel because like Holden’s life, his story is not yet over. The tone of the ending of the catcher in the rye is hopeful instead of depressing like in the…

world through his eyes. Furthermore, Salinger’s novel presents a past account of events that lead up to an ending that leaves the readers mystified. Throughout the narrative, the author displays his use of irony and symbolism to hint at the true meaning of his work. First, the book begins with Holden Caulfield, a delusional seventeen-year-old, recalling his thoughts on what happens to him after he is expelled from school. After failing most of his classes, Holden decides to leave his school…

Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield feels unhappy due to the phonies which create his own misery. Wherever Holden goes, he is surrounded by people who he has trouble coping with and relating to. The ones he encounters that do not act genuine or sincere send him spiralling into an abyss of isolation and hatred towards the world. Holden has left many schools such as Whooton school and Elkton Hills because of his views on the people there being phony. He cannot prosper in an environment where…

Holden’s Thoughts on Suicide Suicide: the action of killing oneself intentionally. The main character in the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is Holden Caulfield, a troubled boy who gets kicked out of his prestigious boarding school. Holden often contemplates the topic of suicide, his own and other people’s. Throughout the book we learn many other things about Holden such as he does not like fake people, is hypocritical at times, uses bad language and smokes. In The Catcher in the…

the events happen and that he is in some sort of asylum (Brooks). Holden’s overall attitudes about his life is actually very negative and he acts as if he has no faith in him ever having a future. His emotions very quickly lessen throughout this tiring story. After Holden finishes his story, you feel as though you just came off a roller coaster of emotions and crazy events (Tolchin). Holden starts his story by telling us about why…