One Last Breath

him to handle certain situations with uneasiness throughout the novel. Holden also shows how apprehensive he is to the thought of growing up when he expresses, “Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone” (122). At this point in the novel, Holden is aware towards his distress of change. He wants everything in his life to stay the same, he wants the children in his life to remain innocent and never…

“A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike” (17). In the essay, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie is shunned by both Indians and non-Indians because he is intelligent and embraces reading, writing, and learning. As a child living on an Indian reservation, his love of learning did not make his life easy. The obstacle Sherman Alexie encounters is being rejected by Indians and non-Indians due to his intelligence,…

May 1989 Soderbergh began his successful career by winning the Palme d’Or for his film Sex, Lies, and Videotapes. Steven Soderbergh did not confirm to the expectation of the “bad boy of young Turk”, but instead followed his own path. At age thirty-one, Soderbergh sat on a plane pondering where to continue in the film industry and was terrified because he had no real skills. When Soderbergh was interviewed about his landmark filmmaking career into Hollywood mainstream, he said “The trick was…

life of Walter Mitty¨, Walter is a different character. Walter mitty has lots of daydreams and he starts get caught up in his daydreams and starts to not enjoy life. Walter mitty has a hard life because everyone mocks him and makes fun of him, no one admires him except in the movie. Sean's message to walter in the film is a big part in the movie. Walter Mitty is very different in the movie and book. In the book Walter Mitty does not change and stays the same the whole time. For example, ¨To…

1950’s. Holden feels trapped between childhood and adulthood and has been kicked out of yet another boarding school because of his dismal attitude towards life and growing into an adult. He feels most adults are phonies and he is reluctant to become one himself. Holden has a great mistrust of adults and he is constantly at odds with them. The only time he is truly happy is when he is thinking about or around children, he admires their purity, innocence and authenticity. While Holden’s view on…

The beginning of Ferris Bueller introduces a rather normal looking high school individual [Ferris] whose impish personality is revealed by his plot to skip school under the pretense of being sick. A number of fade-ins reveal that this isn't the first time that Ferris has skipped school. If anything, given the bland almost bored reaction of the economics teacher [Ben Stein] to the revelation that Ferris is gone again from his class indicates a considerable indifference to Ferris's antics, at…

all the phonies in the adult world. Moreover, the backlash from the immoral and narcissistic bullies that steered Charles to his death for manifesting a genuine person, played a vital role in molding Holden to the person he now identifies with; “...one of these very yellow guys” (Salinger 99). Holden is now very shy and chooses to not to conform to society because of the constant reminder of James Castle’s death and quite possibly his own. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the…

Salinger. Holden’s inability to concentrate is one symptom of depression that has him expelled from school for not finishing his studies, which kept him isolated from other students and faculty. This inability to concentrate is a symptom of depression that makes it very difficult to commit oneself to…

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger in 1951. It is essentially an indictment and is written in a stream of consciousness in order to obtain empathy from the readers. It is the story of Holden Caulfield, a cynical teenager, who quickly becomes a symbol for rebellion due to his ability to reveal the flaws in our society. Although he is an everyman character, the emphasis of the novel is on the society we live in and the importance of understanding, loving, and educating…

“It’s a people shooting hat”: Motif in The Catcher in the Rye A hat can do many things. It can cover. It can protect. It hides your hair. It keeps one warm, especially in cold weather. It is a symbol of expression. It is rebellious, if worn backwards. This functional object, in the world of Holden’s search for maturity, too acts in many distinct and figurative ways. When Holden Caulfield muses that his red hunting hat is more than just a hunting hat, it is actually a “people shooting hat”, the…