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mind of Holden Caulfield. Another strength is that the author accurately represents what a mental person acts and thinks, which books nowadays often romanticize. Although The Catcher in the Rye has many strong points, there are also weaknesses that go along with it. Without looking too deeply in the novel, it would seem like a plain, short story. Next, its ending is abrupt, leaving the readers to wonder Holden’s fate. Finally, Holden’s unreliable point of view leaves questions as to what…

Holden shows maturity before leaving school since he went to go to his favorite teacher at Pencey. He wanted to tell him he was leaving himself since he actually cares about him and plus he knows he is a wise man so he wants to get some advice. Old Spencer tells him something that did not sit well with Holden. Spencer…

◦James Joyce has a bitter and angry tone towards the unknown. As young boy, he was oblivious about many things happening around him and he developed a bitterness for things that he could not control or things he did not know about. Joyce is very direct to the readers about how he felt about being young and a prey to others; he repeats the word “angry” three times and the word “embittered” two times within five sentences. He was able to include at least one of those words in each of the five…

The Ocean at The End of the Lane is a novel which was written by Neil Gaiman, and it was originally published by William Morrow and Company in 2013. It is a novel of fantasy, in that a seven-year-old boy experienced something horrifying and peculiar. The theme of this novel is the childhood memory which has been lost when you get older. Although it was a fantasy story, this is the book more for adults than children. This book starts with a scene of a middle-aged man returning to his hometown…

Eric L. Tribunella’s 2011 essay, “Boyhood” traces the development of children’s, in particular boy literature, from the inception of the word “boy” to the boy-books of the 2000s. Tribunella calls attention to the word “boy” as being originally a derogatory term for males of a lower social status (22), and how the concept of boy as subordinate to man has maintained in some capacity even as the term has shifted to describe a male child (22). He writes “to be a boy means to be a flawed, inchoate,…

about trying to stop children from growing older, which is quite different from its actual theme. His interpretation of the poem becomes clear when he states, “Thousand of little kids, and nobody’s around… I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-” (173, Salinger). The cliff that Holden is trying to stop the children from falling…

The Dark Side of Hollywood Usually Hollywood is made out to be all about glitz and glamour. In Nathanael West’s book entitled The Day of the Locust, West explores the dark side of Hollywood we normally do not see. He goes about this exploration in a dystopian and grotesque manner. The very first reference to this grotesque and dystopian society occurs within the first chapter of the book. Nothing seems to be as it appears at first. “The fat lady in the yachting cap was going shopping, not…

The Catcher in the Rye banned for “good”: Reasons why it was banned, but still is an excellent book The book The Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951. This book contains several themes that include the use of profanity and the use of examples that are not that appropriate for teenagers, even though it is a teenager narrating the story. This suggests that it is a real teenager’s life with similar thoughts, and experiences, which makes it a good book to read for…

innocence sustained. While visiting Phoebe late at night, Holden expresses his dream of being the “catcher in the rye.” Holden envisions many children playing in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff. His job would be to catch every child if they start to go over the cliff. This is the only thing that he would really “enjoy” being. He tells Phoebe, “That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be catcher in the rye and all.” (p. 225) This is actually a symbol used to represent Holden wanting to keep…

The Worldly Philosophers Paper on Thorstein Veblen Linqin Mei Ap Economics Thorstein Bunde Veblen, an American economist, sociologist and social critic, was born on July 30th, 1857 in Cato, Wisconsin. Since Veblen grew up in a Norwegian immigrant farming community in Wisconsin, Norwegian is his first language and the only language he spoke at home, and Veblen learned English as his second language. When he is seventeen years old, he was sent to Carleton College and studied economics under John…