Let's Go Crazy

Many individuals believe that one’s mood affects the way that they perceive things. Others feel that predetermined beliefs and surroundings are what affects how items, such as movies and music, are understood. However, both mood and surroundings influence the way one evaluates items, such as films. Mood and surroundings can have an affect on the way one comprehends films since they allow individuals to influence others, to be open-minded, and to create bonds. In the literary piece,…

When Holden was talking to Mr. Spencer and that his equipment was in the gym and he needed to go get it. Also when Holden was at Mr. Antolini's house and he leaves his clothes at the train station and he needed to go get them. Finally, Holden misses Allie, his dead brother, all the time, and he wants to tell Phoebe about what he went through at Pencey Prep and he takes her to the Zoo and she rides…

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye depicts Holden Caulfield as an outcast in the world. He isolates himself from everyone around him, stereotyping people everywhere he goes. Constantly complaining about the phoniness and similarities of others, Holden himself is a hypocrite. However, there’s a slow but gradual change in weather from snow and ice that represents Holden’s fixation with the phoniness of society, to his acceptance of reality’s lost innocence when it finally rains. Throughout…

Certain experiences, challenges, and encounters people endure each day impact the lives of each individual and create the identities all humans possess. Whether it be learning from a mistake or dealing with that unpleasant boss at work, these events that occur in all lives develop the character and personality of each person. Incidents of the past determine the way in which one behaves, thinks, and responds to each new problem or situation. For instance, teenagers have more intense emotions than…

childhood crush. However he is failing a lot of his classes so he is expelled from the school. He decides to go home early and not tell anybody he has arrived though. He tries to set up a date but hangs up whenever she can’t do it that night. Later that night he finds Maurice the pimp and he sends a prostitute his way but he is way too innocent for a prostitute and they don’t have sex and they even go as far as to rob him of ten dollars.Then he tries to set a date with another girl named Sally…

Protagonist’s play a very important role in the novel as a whole but as well as the development of the storyline. By definition, a protagonist is “the principal character in a literary work (as a drama or story).” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Each protagonist develops and matures as the novel does as well. Through the storyline protagonists also develop and mature in response to the events that they experience. In the following four novels, the protagonist’s involvement in the occasions of the…

If there’s one thing Holden Caulfield hates most, it’s phonies. Throughout the whole novel, Holden points out when someone is being phony or being fake, being precise with every detail. Most people he comes across happen to be “phony” or doing phony things. Regardless of what Holden may say or think about others, he is also a phony. Everytime he speaks to someone a lie comes out and he’s often portrayed doing phony things. By calling others phonies, it makes it easier for him to deal with…

childish and curious side to Holden’s typical angsty character. Salinger uses the ducks in the pack as a metaphor to represent change, something Holden fears, due to them migrating during different seasons. Holden question of where will the ducks go, is actually a question for his future after running away from Pencey. This resonates with since I share the same question of “What will happen to me in the future” due to college being just around the corner. Similarly, I also am apprehensive…

didn't match the assignment and they get in a fight. Holden then leaves to go back to New York a few days early so he had time to himself and to give…

“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye … [and] I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff” (Salinger 173). Although Holden says that he wants to be in charge of saving children from falling off a cliff, but figuratively he is saving the children from the fake, depressing life of adulthood. Even though there is nothing Holden…