One Last Breath

Loneliness destroy kids mentally around the world every day and it brings deep despair on to people. All them by themselves with no one else to hold on to and they can’t escape the feeling of depression. In this coming of age novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger it catches this reality and turns it into a novel that dwells deep into heart wrenching themes such as the phoniness, painfulness of growing up, isolation and self-protection and so much more. All by a weird and very complex…

where they 're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That 's all I do all day. I 'd just be the catcher in the rye and all”(Salinger 173). Holden was determined to save every last child from experiencing a “fall.” The fall represents the loss of innocence. Holden desperately holds on to the last bit of innocence he has and wants everyone else to because Allie was innocent and he died before he lost it, therefore he wants to be like Allie. There were many symbols representing…

Salinger’s use of Holden’s language of depression also demonstrates the amount of devastation that being on his own with nothing to anchor himself to the world is causing. Through these elements of Holden’s language, Salinger illustrates the depths one can fall to when stripped of all human connections. Such a state is no way to live, especially in adolescence. Instead, people should spend this time coming to understand themselves and of age. No teenager deserves to lose this opportunity to…

say that?” (Salinger 169). Holden overreacted and riled up and could’ve handled the situation better than he did. The bigger picture of the issue is that it can be solved without any aggressiveness or particular ill will. This message is an important one as Americans live in a time period where a simple exchange of ideas between human beings can easily take a violent turn that could easily be prevented. With this occurring people can become like Holden and slowly alienate themselves from…

about Holden and during this conversation, Holden is not exactly paying attention. He then says something that catches Holden’s attention and is very essential quote for the reader to understand, which is, “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules,” (Salinger 11). This quote is important because of the hidden meaning behind this which is that you have to go through the hardships that life throws at you and there is no easy way out of it because life is not easy.…

fascination with the theater and the art world for all of color and life. The theater for music and art is called Carnegie Hall, and the pieces which are played there strongly affect Paul as shown when Cather writes, “when the symphony began Paul sank into one of the rear seats with a long sigh of relief… the first sight of the instruments seemed to free some hilarious spirit inside of him..”(195). Paul’s addiction to the arts and music it caused him a lot of problems in the long term. At the…

Every child is warned of the “adult world” where all the magic and fairytales of their previous years disappears, where enjoyment is succeeded by exhaustion and monotony, where you have to pay taxes! During their youth, a considerable portion is dedicated to fortifying their emotions for their upcoming toils. However, what happens when life shatters this fantasy too early? Holden Caulfield from Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny Glass from his short stories, Franny and Zooey are two…

Often times humans will follow what their hearts want rather than thinking the situation through. In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield, a 16 year old boy, who failed out of Pencey Prep, tries to follow his heart to make everything perfect. Holden assumes that all children are innocent and perfect without noticing the truth. He tries to protect their innocence by following his heart to do good for all children, but always thinking about this shortly made him depressed and it…

During the play we see how Birling has no respect for people of a lower social standing and he does not feel that he is responsible for anyone but himself. “I can’t except any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward” .The attitude Birling has which is shown here is very poor and shows how selfish he is towards anyone but himself. He seems not care what his actions do to other people’s lives and…

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D.Sallinger published in 1951. The story follows Holden Caulfield’s experiences in New York after leaving Pencey Prep, a boarding school he has just been expelled from. The novel explores complex issues such as isolation, alienation, innocence, loss and identity. Holden tells his story from a rest home, where he spends his days after getting tuberculosis. A psychoanalyst encourages him to write about the events which led him to getting…