Holden Bowler

17-year-old Holden Caulfield’s mother scheduled him for a psychiatric appointment in my office. On the phone, Mrs. Caulfield explained that everything seemed to start when Holden disappeared for 3 days, around Christmas last year, after being kicked out of his fourth boarding school. Phoebe Caulfield, Holden’s little sister, was the one that noticed his strange behavior and told her mother of these peculiarities when they started to worsen throughout the year. Holden displayed feelings of…

it. His book was praised and loved by many. There were only a few like reviewer named Anne L. Goodman said “The book as a whole disappointing, and not merely because it is a reworking of a theme that one begins to suspect must obsess the author. Holden Caulfield, the main character who tells his own story, is an extraordinary portrait, but there is too much of him” (Jelly…

kid.” Although the company Toys R Us was not founded until 1948 (About Toys"R" Us), Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has the same mentality: he does not want to grow up. His bias towards innocence and fear of adulthood leaves him with one purpose in life: to save those from enduring the pain of maturing. Due to a mishearing of Robert Burn’s poem “Comin Thro’ the Rye,” Holden envisions himself as the hero at the end of the cliff, catching innocent kids…

The Catcher in the Rye introduces a troubled teenager, Holden Caulfield, who sees the adult world and growing negatively. Using tone, symbolism, and the meaning of the title to J.D Salinger shows the difficulty of growing into adulthood and having to deal with its complexities and the inability of preserving the innocence of a child. This is because Holden does not seem to want to join the phony adult world, and he tries to avoid it. He mentions he wants to live on farms and in New England…

Synopsis The Dead Poets Society is a story that revolves around a group of boys who were attending a prestigious boys school together. Set in the 1950s, the parents and school culture were seen to be autocratic, where parents often dictated the lives of their children and leave them with no say. The story mainly unfolds from the perspectives of two students, Todd Anderson and Neil Perry, who are roommates. In the story, the students found inspiration from their English teacher, Mr. Keating, who…

A great number of people enjoy the feeling of being frightened whether by a movie, story, play, or whatever else. Even so, most like to have a little scare every now and then. In Lucille Fletchers, The Hitchhiker, a man is taking a road trip from Brooklyn to California. However, it is not just an average road trip. The main character, Ronald Adams, comes across a mysterious man on the way. Everywhere he goes, the strange man is in his presence. This triggers Adams to become a little deranged.…

The film “Finding Forrester” written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant is a 2000 drama. The film tells the story of an African-American sixteen-year-old, basketball star named Jamal Wallace who is invited to attend a prestigious private school in Manhattan named Mailor Callow. Jamal befriends William Forrester, a writer, who helps him refine his talent for writing. Through their friendship, Jamal and William find their identity and search for happiness. Throughout the film, characters…

In the catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger the protagonist of the novel Holden Caufield on the go through many difficult milestones of the novel such as a tragic death of his brother Ali. Holden faces difficult events in his life that all contribute to his Swift mental and emotional deterioration including: Allies death, Holden’s realization of phoniness, and Holden’s lack of communication with others. Firstly the tragic death of his younger brother Ali is a major factor of Holden's emotional…

view on Holden Caulfield The way someone is influenced is by childhood experiences and their unconscious desires. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist in the story is a rebellious young man named Holden Caulfield who has a low self esteem and is an underachiever, which drives him into becoming depressed and trying to seek someone he can talk to. In the first few pages of the novel, you become familiar with the fact that something is wrong with Holden…

In the book, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is presumed to be an outcast because of his abnormal behavior according to the standards that society has set for him. However unlike him, Chris McCandless from the movie, Into the Wild film, was the definition of normal, but only till his graduation from Emory University as a top student and athlete. After graduation, Chris McCandless gave up his mortal possessions to charity, ridding himself of the constraints that life has brought him,…