My Last Duchess

The definition of phony is not genuine or fraudulent, which can describe many people. Including Holden Caulfield the protagonist, he is a 17 year old boy who has was expelled from his school Pencey. After a fight with his roommate Stradlater he decides to leave school early and go to manhattan to avoid telling his parents. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is struggling with being surrounded by phonies and being a phony himself. Holden talk about many people being phony but there were…

J.D Salinger, author of “Catcher in the rye,” gives an impression of alienation, the state of being isolated about society, to a younger audience such as myself because the lack of knowledge in the “adult world.” “Catcher in the Rye” has a cultural impact on the world such as many quotes in several books, movies, tv shows, and music. The Book, “Catcher in the Rye,” should be deemed as a good book because it captures the alienation of adolescents when questioning the world magnificently as if the…

In seventh grade, he kisses a white girl who lives on the reservation, and he says, “But I was saying good-bye to my tribe, to all the Indian girls and women I might have loved, to all the Indian men who might have called me cousin, even brother” (Alexie 110). He realizes that by leaving the reservation, he is leaving his tribe, the Coeur d’Alene, and to them, he…

I thought about going back to my parents house, but I knew that it would the most shameful thing to do. Anyways, time passed and I began to lose my sanity. Voices taunted my mind and demons accompanied me to bring terror to my life. I tried to get back on my feet, but I just couldn’t. The longest job I held was for about a month. That job was the weirdest and yet most important. You see, I worked…

Holden Caulfield: Phony or Real? Holden Caulfield embodies many of the ideas from The Most Human Art. Caulfield and The Catcher and The Rye have connected many people from different backgrounds due to Caulfield ideas resonating. Caulfield embodies many ideas from The Most Human Art, but he especially allows people to see stories through his eyes, realizing the consequences of our actions and teaching us how to be human. Caulfield throughout the book allows us to experience how it is to be a…

on Sally by being attracted to her on a physical, but not mental level. Holden also places Lillian Simmons into the seducers category. Again, Holden is attracted to Lillian on a physical level, and is frustrated by her fake personality. For example, “My brother D.B. used to go around with her for awhile. She had very big knockers” (86). This portrays Holden’s objectification and misunderstanding of women. Holden is interested in Lillian’s physical characteristics but is uninterested in her as a…

Now who plays basebal that Holden knows and admires and loves so much? Thats right, Allie. The same person that Holden has a glove of. Holden wishes to be like Allie every step of the way, and he also wishes Allie was there with him. Finally, one last question about the cap that was not answered in the book, but is part of a really big theme in the book. If the cap is a hunting cap, what is Holden hunting…

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a somewhat controversial 1950’s novel about the main character, Holden Caulfield, recounting his days of adventure in New York City following his recent expulsion from Pencey Prep, a private all boys’ school. Throughout the interactive oral, it was discussed how Holden’s journey through New York was similar to the odyssey and what the writer achieved by his use of language style, among other questions like what the audience, purpose and context of the novel…

The Catcher In The Rye: Why Ban Such A Great Book? Bad words, explicit content, a kid who is being viewed as a bad influence. These things all correlate to the concern surrounding the book The Catcher In The Rye. According to the About Banned and Challenged Books Article, “A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.” The article also tells us, “Books are usually challenged with the…

started to become captivated with gore and manliness. Holden explained, “You never saw such gore in your life… it partly scared me and it partly fascinated me. All that blood and all. Sort of made me look tough. I’d only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. I’m not too tough. I’m a pacifist if you want to know the truth” (ch 6 pg 45-46). Holden wants to be seen as something that he is not, tough. His infatuation with gore shows that he is slowly losing who he used to be,…