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book. In this story, Holden is the main character and most ideal for Salinger’s use of hyperboles. Holden has a mental illness and does not do well in any school he attends along with not doing well with friendships. This novel is based on a three day journey of Holden and gives readers an insight to his life. J.D Salinger uses Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye to present the literary element of a hyperbole, which also benefits the novel in multiple ways.…

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem Finch has to deal with being the eldest child and the first one to grow up and be mature. This situation puts him in a strange position as he is seen acting as strange and betraying by the people around him, especially his younger sibling Scout and his friend Dill. In chapter fourteen, this struggle is brought to surface after Dill is found under Scout’s bed because he ran away from his uninterested parents. In this scene, Jem has to stand up and start…

J.D. Salinger, in his novel The Catcher in the Rye, symbolizes Allie’s left-handed fielder’s baseball mitt as Holden’s love for his deceased brother as well as Allie’s authentic uniqueness. J.D. Salinger displays how Allie’s death has had an impact on Holden’s life, Holden feels the loss of his brother’s death when he reminisces about Allie being on the baseball field with his baseball mitt and how Allie wrote poems on his baseball mitt. That memory makes Holden feels depress because that memory…

Spencer Seton Ms. Maggert English Honors 3 01 November 2016 The Transition In J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye we follow a young teen Holden Caulfield. We follow him throughout the emotion filled process of leaving childhood and entering adulthood. Holden grew up in a time where you were either a kid or an adult, the 1950’s. There was no teenage growing period for young adults and Holden suffered greatly due to this. Holden is an immature coward who constantly lies to himself and everyone…

Teenagers are faced with a significant amount of adversities throughout the transition to adulthood. In J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”, the main character, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager who is overwhelmed by the internal conflicts he is facing. This story is talking about how he went from initially feeling despondent to eventually obtaining happiness. Holden has been faced with several obstacles throughout his lifetime such as losing his brother at young age, having a distant…

The novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who got kicked out of 4 different schools and now in New York to let his parents cool off from him getting recently kicked out of school. He is struggling in life by, “ falling down a cliff,” making decisions, and not getting support till he really needs it and when there is little time left. Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye because he values childhood, children never growing up, and family…

additionally serving as the impetus for his increase in depression. Despite the outreach from supportive characters such as Mr. Spencer and Mr. Antolini, Holden continually favors acts of rashness over the transition to maturity and responsibility. When the last of Holden’s innocence is challenged by the adult world, Holden denounces all logic and desperately tries to preserve the ingenuousness of not only his…

Steven Besson 4-29 Pd. 1-2 The Catcher in the Rye Motifs The red hunting hat Beginning: “I put on this hat that I’d bought in New York that morning. It was this red hunting hat, with one of those very, very long peaks. I saw it in the window of this sports store when we got out of the subway, just after I noticed I'd lost all the goddam foils. It only cost me a buck. The way I wore it, I swung the old peak way around to the back—very corny, I'll admit, but I liked it that way. I looked good in…

drastically changing from the advances and the alliances made during that time period. This, while not shown overtly throughout the text, is evidenced by Holden’s mentioning the atomic bomb and his older brother’s, D.B., time in the army and even being at D-Day. Holden would have been in some of his most formative years during the war, and this almost certainly had an effect on him. He would have seen men returning home from war, suffering from PTSD much like his brother, and wondered at the…

The fiction novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger depicts a lonely teenager that struggles with growing up and entering the adult world. The author gives the lonesome boy two different advices through the separate conversations he has with his former English and History teachers. Holden, the main character, had a different way of responding for each advice given by his teachers. At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Spencer explains to Holden that "life is a game" (Salinger, 8). A game…