Last Day of the Last Furlough

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…

As Holden’s mental state diminishes as his story continues, readers can view and learn from his insufficient means of caring for himself and asking for help, as well as his tendency to mask his problems. Holden acknowledges his self-deprecating and destructive personality by saying, “I swear to God I’m a madman,” which is then compounded by his poor decision-making, (Salinger, 149). Towards the end of the story, as he is deep in his desolation, he begins to hallucinate that, “every time I’d get…

Circle Justice vs. US Criminal Justice System By: Kayla Have you ever read the book Touching Spirit Bear? Touching Spirit Bear is a novel about a troubled, teenage boy named Cole Mathews, who almost gets sent to jail, but many people help him in Circle Justice where he is banished to an Alaskan island for a year. After the year is over, Cole has changed and regrets his past decisions. He helps heal his school from suicide and bullies to help those around him. Circle Justice is a Native…

In the book The Phantom TollBooth there is a boy named Milo. In the beginning of the book Milo is a very depressed and sad little boy. Milo doesn’t know what to do with himself. He thinks everything is useless. On page 9 it states “ It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time”. Whenever Milo was somewhere he always wanted to somewhere else but once he got there he then again wanted to be somewhere different. But Milo does change throughout the book. Once Milo had found the Phantom…

The Catcher in the Modernism In today’s fast-paced society, the definition of modern is constantly changing as genius minds invent and introduce brilliant ideas and innovations to the world. “Modern” pertains to something that relates to recent times, or the present, however, how recent can modern be? For example, modern literature sprouted at the start of World War I, and about a century later, many scholars claim that the Modernist movement has not yet ended. Contradictory to the population’s…

very nice place. Deserting Standish with grandfather, his parents vanished and were never seen again. He was getting bullied in school until a new neighbor, Hector moved in. Hector defended Standish and eventually, they became best friends. But one day, Hector disappeared, which left Standish in chaos. At the same time, Motherland had a mission going on, a moon landing space mission. It was everywhere. Standish, who “can’t read, can’t write” (p.3), figures something suspicious about this…

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…

Psychoanalytic 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…

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,…

Kenth Winmore knew he had something wrong with him ever since he was thirteen year old, and he also knew that little something was an unfair thing called a ‘sexual drive’ that surely surpassed all of his classmates and might have even surpassed his upper classmates as well. He found this out by gaining a tiny, twinge of a crush on beautiful boy that was a grade higher than he. It was then he knew he was a homosexual, but unfortunately it was also then he found himself thinking about that one…