I'm Right Here

In one instance, Holden displays maturity when he tells his sister she cannot accompany him on his road trip out West, “You can’t take anything. Because you’re not going. I’m going alone” (Salinger, 206). While using immature forms of expression, the general intent was to preserve his sisters well being. You can’t get much more mature than voluntarily taking care of someone else's health and wellbeing. Another occasion of…

I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That's also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I'm pretty healthy though.”(Hawthorne 1.1). What Holden is referring to is the professionals helping him in the mental institution open…

for museums. When Holden goes to visit the Museum of Natural History, he mentions that he likes the museum because it will always be the same each and every time he visits. “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw…

I am The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. I must be saved because I am an influence on young teenagers everywhere. I can help readers make important decisions. I can also encourage readers to go and live important lives. Since an important theme of mine is identity, I help children if they’re going through identity issues. This is why I should be saved. I am about twelve year old Percy Jackson, who always seems to get into trouble. Percy gets the shock of his life when he finds out he is the…

riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall…”... “It may be the kind where at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college… I just don’t know. But do you know what I’m driving at, at all?” (Salinger…

telling him that he is still a kid, which Holden demonstrates when he says, “Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen… The one side of my head--the right side--is full of millions of gray hairs. I've had them ever since I was a kid. And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve.” (Salinger 9). Half of Holden’s hair is grey as though half…

"God damn it." He was sore as hell. He was really furious. "You always do everything backasswards." He looked at me. "No wonder you're flunking the hell out of here," he said. "You don't do one damn thing the way you're supposed to. I mean it. Not one damn thing." "All right, give it back to me, then," I said. I went over and pulled it right out of his goddam hand. Then I tore it up. "What the hellja do that for?" he said. I didn't even answer him. I just threw the pieces in the…

He shows some transition towards adulthood when he asks cab drivers where the ducks will go once the lake freezes: “‘You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?’... I realized it was the only one chance in a million” (Salinger 60). The cab driver thinks that Holden is a ‘madman’ and…

hell out of here?... We’ll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till dough runs out ” (132). The expected social norm in society is to grow up and become an accountable adult. Holden does not want to have to conform to society, so his solution is to run away where he can avoid growing up. Then later when he is talking to Phoebe, he mentions his escape plan…

that he is responsible for anyone but himself. “I can’t except any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward” .The attitude Birling has which is shown here is very poor and shows how selfish he is towards anyone but himself. He seems not care what his actions do to other people’s lives and what affect he has on them, which shows an attitude of a man that can do what he then wants to get rich. We…