Let's Go Crazy

In the literary works Hamlet by William Shakespeare and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, similarities can be found with each protagonists throughout each work. These similarities can be related with how Hamlet and Holden go through mentally challenging events within their lives. Although the two protagonists’ mental struggles are caused by very different factors, they actually demonstrate very similar reactions. Hamlet and Holden notably illustrate the same reaction when a loved one…

illness which causes him to want to protect the innocence of children. An example of this is when he sees swear words on the wall of Phoebe’s elementary school. Holdem shows his thoughts about the words by angrily saying “… I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck…

Author J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye features Holden Caulfield, a young man who struggles through getting kicked out of multiple private boys schools, society’s expectations, and depression. The lense this book is being analyzed under is psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic theory is the concept of the unconscious part of the human brain contains biological motivators and conditioning from past experiences. The specific part of psychoanalytic theory that is being used is the idea of…

In Catcher in the Rye, written by J. D. Salinger, Holden, the main character, wants to save children’s innocence. In the book, there are two motifs, the mummies and Holden’s inability to call Jane, which both reveals Holden’s thoughts about retaining innocence. As Holden arrives in New York, Holden attempts to call Jane Gallagher trying to: “take her dancing. I never danced … the whole time I knew her” (175). Holden has no one to spend time with and decides to use his time with Jane Gallagher,…

As you read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, you must infer some parts of the novel as the narrator leaves out crucial information. Both the characters and the readers are withheld from, crucial information that greatly affects the events in the novel that shape who the characters are. The purpose for the author and the guardians to withhold information from the reader and the characters is to mask the true identities of the characters in the novel, to establish a sense of individuality within…

Aspects of Humanity Revealed through Symbolism in Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go has been widely acclaimed for its insights into the depths of human life. On the surface, the main characters, Kathy H., Tommy, and Ruth live completely normal lives, but their inevitable futures as organ donors separates them from “normal” people. Throughout their childhood and adolescent lives, the characters encounter various objects that become sentimental to them. Kathy greatly values her…

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a 1980s South African comedy classic . The protagonist, a traveling bushman, encounters a modern civilian for the first time. The movie became an international hit. The bushman character was based off of the !Kung peoples of South Africa, a hunter-gatherer society (IMDb, 2016). With this however, the movie displayed many stereotypes, which is defined by Richard D. Bucher as, “…an unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people (Bucher,…

Roosevelt believed that the race was going to sabotage and cause more damage to America. The Japanese-Americans and the Uchida family were versatile and optimistic while facing these hardships. They had hope that one day they will be able to go back home and go back to their everyday lives. In her memoir, from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American family, Uchida states “ The stall was lying on the floor, Dust, dirt and wood shaving …manure covered boards,… the whitened corpse of…

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…

” Ms. Stainton remarked. As the conversation continued on the sweet treats, a young lady no older than the end of the war, peeked her head from behind the curtain. The lady crept up the stairs out of the notice of her sister's eye, but it did not go unnoticed by a pair of moss green eyes, watching her duck the company. “Ms. Fionna,” one of the…