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Have you ever wondered what led to Adele being a huge success? Well, based on Adele’s childhood stories you would think that she would be the last person to be famous. Adele has accomplished incredible things that many people wish to do someday. From her humble beginnings as a child with no musical background to winning 15 grammys and most recently being asked to perform at the Grammy’s, Adele is truly one of the most impressive and accomplished singer there is today. Adele’s full name is…

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is about a young boy named Holden whose struggling through a traumatic experience from his younger brothers death, Allie, to his parents sending him to boarding school because of expressing his feelings. You will see the symbols Holden leaves and the signs of depression, focusing on his overall progression and development throughout the book. With the three most important symbols that he shows of his sadness and depression from the red hunting hat, the…

Throughout the novel, Salinger outlines the process of maturing from adolescence. Aside from the main character, Holden, who exhibits an aversion to change and development, the majority of children in this novel display a healthy maturing process. “Catcher in the Rye,” the title of the novel, holds a great amount of significance as to what Salinger believes the process of growing up entails. The poem from which the novel receives its name, “Comin thro’ the rye,” features a girl laboriously…

The character of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions provides players an emotional and understanding of the character and themselves. As teenagers continue to grow and develop, it is important for them to gain some social and emotional learning. Often, characters in violent video games such as Spider-Man have these social and emotional understandings such as relationship skills, responsible decision-making, and self-management. For example, Spider-Man lives by the saying “with great…

In the 1950s through 1960s, about twenty books were banned. One of these books included the now award-winning novel The Catcher in the Rye. This is a story about a 16-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield as he is in New york alone after being kicked out of his Prep School. In this novel, J.D. Salinger addresses the topic of human sexuality and offensive language from the perspective of Holden Caulfield. In the 1950s and 1960s, books that spoke about sexual topics and had very explicit language…

Jerome David Salinger was born in New York on January 1st, 1919. His father was a rabbi who ran a cheese and ham import business. Even though Salinger was smart, he flunked out of McBurney in 1934. His parents then shipped him off to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Once he graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy, he returned to his hometown. He decides to become an aspiring writer and goes to New York University. However, he was forced to drop out of New York…

The inability to value consequences is expressed by J.D. Salinger in many of his writings, and is especially relevant in his award winning novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The central message in a majority of Salinger’s writings is that you cannot run away from your problems, for the consequences always catch up to you in the end. Balancing on the line of adolescence and adulthood, J.D. Salinger provides the reader with a first-hand psychological analysis on the struggles of a teenager entering…

I’ve read the novel Catcher in the rye by J. D. Salinger. The novel tells us about a week of the life of Holden Caulfield. He is seventeen year old boy, who seems to be very depressed and lonely. Due to his mental state he failed his exams, again got knocked from another school, and had quarrelled with some mates. Through the pages of the novel we can see that Holden is trying to make good relationships with family members and some acquaintances, but at the same time he pushes them away due to…

Since the publication of The Catcher in the Rye and A Perfect Day for Bananafish, a lot of readers have suspected that renowned author J.D. Salinger used his own feelings and personal experiences to create main characters, Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass. Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, deals with a troubling past and has many internal problems and emotions that he keeps hidden from the few friends he has. These feelings stay bottled up in Holden throughout…

Education, learning, and high school is something all teenagers have to deal with. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about Holden Caulfield, a boy who repeatedly gets expelled from school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Arnold Spirit Junior’s freshman year of high school where he chooses to leave the reservation for a better education. Education is often seen as a door to a brighter future, and some embrace this and others choose to…