Joan Caulfield

22470 Mrs. Murawsi American Lit Honors Period 2 14 Dec 2015 The Catcher in the Rye If a person had the opportunity to grow up, would they? Throughout the story The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield goes through many challenges in the book. In the novel Holden struggles with internal conflict by seeing the adult world in its phoniness and it’s unbearable moments. Through the duration of the story what influences Holden Caulfield’s unreliability are his lies and deceits, his sexual identity,…

In Night Shymalana’s The Sixth Sense, Cole Sear makes the statement, “They only see what they want to see.” This seemingly simplistic phrase directly parallels the various ways in which we perceive others and the world around us. Cole Sear, a young boy who claims to see the dead, tells us that the dead only see what they want to see. By this, he means that the deceased forge an alternate universe that ultimately allows them to perceive the world as they wish—a world in which they are still alive…

In the given case study, Ben’s life has been portrayed gloomy as from the childhood, he has nurtured in the unhealthy and rancorous environment as he has not gotten chances of much needed parental love. It is worth to note that, the child deprived of the maternal and paternal affection does not do well when grows up academically and socially. On this note, in the said case study, it is expressed that Ben is introvert and doesn’t like to show amicability in general. He has a lovely wife with whom…

full of self-discovery and an acceptance of the responsibilities of adulthood, adolescence can be a daunting, yet truly fulfilling experience. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and in the 2013 film The Spectacular Now, Holden Caulfield and Sutter Keely, two high school seniors, struggle to accept the inevitability of growing up, and they illustrate their reluctance to move on through their erratic behaviour and…

Jose’s Great Dilemma Literary thesis statement: In “The Challenge”, Gary Soto introduces Jose as a young boy who experiences a change in his rite of passage in his personality as he undergoes liminality. I. Prior to liminality, Jose is a teenager boy who is ingenuous and has a lack of experience to loving a girl. A. Jose is naïve because he thinks that receiving perfect test scores will make Estela notice him. 1. “But when the quizzes had been returned and Jose bragged, ‘Another A-plus,’…

How can I make this work, this is so hard! I am so lost right now! Have you ever felt loneliness, hunger, fear, immaturity, and confidence? I know I have, so did these characters named Brian (from the book Hatchet, Moon Shadow (from the book Dragonwings), and Rachel (from the book Eleven). Brian is a boy that faces the wilderness with very little resources. Moon Shadow is a young man that is curious and fearful of the strange place his father works in. Lastly, Rachel is experiencing the fact…

“Rich fellas come up an they die, an their kids are no good an they die out.” The sentence caught him off guard, so much so the he had to re-read it to ensure he hadn’t left something out. It was painful. Amid the blur of dialogue written in the same melodramatic tone of John Steinbeck, the sentence stuck out from the rushes of Grapes of Wrath like a thorn from a rose. He hadn’t expected to be caught off guard by a book (let alone a book he was only meant to read as homework over the summer) yet…

In a time when freedom isn’t an option and opinions didn’t exist, being an individual was a extensive challenge for any member of the World State. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, independence is never experienced, this is made clear through the characters Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, and John the Savage. Freedom is understood in many ways, these three characters all struggle for liberty, each of them want to feel what they believe to be individualistic, despite all wanting to be free in…

To start off, Holden Caulfield is still a virgin and that is a fact. He never had the guts to actually move on to the next level with a girl even though he talks very big. Caulfield says, “The thing is, most of the time when you’re coming pretty close to doing it with a girl-a girl that isn’t a prostitute or anything, I mean-she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don’t. But I can’t help it” (Salinger 92). Salinger thinks that he wants to do it, he wants to lose…

A fifteen year old with ADD, performing stand-up comedy, getting a job as a janitor, and dropping out of school just to support his family. A young boy with an intellect that became well known but with depression beyond no other. Both of these famous individuals started from nowhere, and are now everywhere including two life changing commencements. Many colleges have their valedictorian, a school administrator, or even a teacher address the graduates however, both Maharishi University of…