His Last Walk

People often use isolation as a form of self defense because they fear the consequences of opening up to others. Holden is a teenager who has suffered a lot of trauma in his life, resulting in him feeling afraid of opening up to people so he detaches himself from everyone . Holden sees a family with a little boy who is humming and whistling contently and he says it “made [him] feel not so depressed anymore” (62). Just seeing this happy boy walking down the street makes holden feel better. Holden…

Caulfield, who is the main character. Holden loses his brother at a very young age. We will all lose our siblings or die before them, but it’s not common to lose them at a young age like that. He tells us that he was kicked out of school, even before mentioning he lost his brother. This is odd because his brother dying left a bigger impact on him than the fact that he was kicked out of Pencey, a school full of phonies. Phonies play a big part in his life because he thinks everyone is a phonie.…

adolescence because “there [are] a few kids riding on it” showing that one has to get off the ride to reach a sense of responsibility and adulthood (210). The kids are able to ride the carousel with no worries and no sense of responsibility. Throughout his…

others, and society. Caufield narrates his life from the moment he gets expelled from Pencey, a private school, to when he travels back to his hometown. Through his encounters with other students, a prostitute, his old professor, and Phoebe, his younger sister, Caufield begins to realize that his life has taken a very wrong turn. Salinger uses the internal and external man vs man, man vs. society, and man vs. self conflicts that Caufield handles throughout his journey to express the central idea…

character, Sammy, is put right in the middle of it. Making him decide whether to stay in his own world or break out into a new one. Showing that in this story, freedom is the most important and influential underlying theme. The setting to this story played an integral role in the events that transpired. The plot takes place in a grocery store where the main character, Sammy, works as a cashier. When Sammy describes his environment to us he says, “I’m in the third checkout slot, with my back…

box to be my shape of the poster, it is because I realized Holden always smokes in the story. I feel that cigarettes can help him express his feeling. It might not resolve his problems but at least it might make him feel relaxing and calm his emotion. On the cigarette box, I draw some ducks and a red hunting hat in the middle. The red hunting hat symbolizes his uniqueness and individuality. He is an outsider and tries to live differently from the phony people around him. He gets annoyed by all…

feels alienated from his peers and society. Holden Caulfield, the narrator of the novel, talks about his surroundings and how everything is “sore”. He talks about how he doesn’t like people because of how they are all phonies, and fakes, saying things they don’t really mean. There is where some reader might get the idea that Holden is “weird,” “whiny”, and “immature”, but this attitude is justified because of how Holden is still not over a traumatic experience of the death of his younger…

today. Through D.B Caulfield, the wearies of war seeps through to Holden, only to enable his cynical view of the world: “He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in” (155). D.B even described the army as “full of bastards as the Nazis were” (155). As the second child in the family, Holden instinctively looked up to D.B, his older brother, gaining his pessimism. And he was not short of things to complain about. As the world sprung…

a difficult place to be…” ~Jaeda Dewalt Holden has had a troubled life based on the fact that his little brother died, everyone around him is living a double life, and he struggled to find his life purpose. In the novel Catcher in the Rye Holden struggles with loneliness. Toward the beginning of the novel Holden opens up about a major event in his life that changed everything about how he is. He lost his little brother, and best friend Allie to Leukemia at the age of thirteen. Holden resents the…

must endure. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden does not cope well with becoming an adult and moving on from the death of his little brother, Allie. He holds on tightly to the memories of his childhood and wishes that he could be a child forever. Holden does not want to grow up because he fears change and does not want to leave his childhood behind. Holden has a strong connection to Allie and does not want to become an adult because Allie will always be a child. He…