R. D. Laing

What would one expect to be the feelings of a man who was born and raised in Mumbai, but travelled the world during his child- and adulthood? A man who has lived in London, New Delhi, New York and Hong Kong? It are the feelings of just a common man that Dom Moraes - an Indian poet - portrays in his poem ‘Sinbad’. An analysis of the poem reveals that through the apostrophe which addresses ‘Sinbad’ and formal characteristics such as rhythm, free verse and punctuation, the reader gets an impression…

The short stories ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’ (1948) and ‘For Esmé—with Love and Squalor’ (1950) present the American writer Jerome David Salinger in his prime. Both short stories are well-acclaimed by critics as well as readers, as they preceded the author’s well-known novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Although the two short stories may not be as famous as the worldwide-known Salinger’s masterpiece is, they both represent him maybe even better than The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden…

The allegory, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a fictional novel about a plane crash on an island without any adults. The setting of the book is an island; “the shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or declined against the light and their green feathers were 100 feet up in the air.” And that the is,and is hot and tropical; “here and there, little breezes crept over the water beneath a haze of heat”. There are three main conflicts in this novel, they are a conflict with nature,…

How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? How and why is the working class of post-war America presented as dominating and powerful through the character of Stanley? Written Task 2: In 1931, James Truslow Adams popularized the phrase “American Dream”. He stated that the “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” This phrase surrounded the idea that there is an equality…

Lost Innocence in the Catcher in the Rye Innocence is something that is seen as a trait in children, and can even be associated with being naive. The book ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ however, shows a different side to this. It shows how a young boy named Holden Caulfield travels around New York for 48 hours, and how he sees innocence as a godsend. The book ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ uses symbols such as the idea of being a ‘catcher in the rye’, the ducks in central park, and the Museum of Natural…

Throughout the book, the theme of loneliness - abandonment is seen, as he pushes people away when in reality he is only pushing himself away. Holden’s loneliness is derived from his lack of self-protection towards society and how he manages to obtain it by taking his anger out on others. J.D. Salinger conveys the theme of loneliness - abandonment using the technique of symbolism. This is seen when Holden uses his red hunting hat in the incorrect way, as it demonstrates his difference from…

MLA citation of novel: Salinger, J. D. the Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown and Company: 1951 Genre: The genre of this novel is realistic fiction or coming-of-age fiction. The novel is about a teenage boy going through life. It goes over the many things that teens face. It focuses on the angst of teenagers. Historical lens analysis: The book was published after World War II. Soldiers coming back from the war had psychological issues. I think that Holden was a character based on the…

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. —Charles Swindoll” Entrepreneur https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247213 Due to the war, Ishmael needs to react in a certain way for him to stay alive. During all of chapter eight, it is just Ishmael reacting to what the war has come down to for him. He is all by himself in a forest and has to find ways to survive. In order to stay alive, Ishmael needs to find food, water, and somewhere to sleep fast. So to conquer his hunger…

Phoebe. While he walked around the school he came across to some vulgar vocabulary written on the wall; “Somebody'd written Fuck you on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how phoebe and all the others little kids would see it, and how they´d wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them” (Chapter 25, 201). Salinger let the writer know of this purity in the children, in which it could easily be disturbed with a vulgar word written on the wall. The…

The play, “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” by Ray Lawler is mainly a story about life of Australia in the 1950s. In the play, one sees that, Lawler gives audiences rich insights into various aspects of gender issues and cultural identity issues typical of Australian life set in that period of time. The play talks about a group of ordinary people who are struggling to stay young as do not acknowledge the reality that they are aging. In their desperate bid to escape the inevitability of the…