River Rye

a person. Nowhere else is this more evident than in, J.D. Salinger’s novel, the Catcher in the Rye. In his novel, the main character Holden Caulfield experiences painful loss during a pivotal time in his life, which shapes his personality and his outlook on the world. Holden’s loss turns him into a bitter, sarcastic teen, with a penchant for protecting the innocent. J.D. Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye utilizes casual diction, pessimistic tone and symbols of innocence to portray the effects of…

of chronic rejection? According to Kipling Williams, Ph.D., being rejected chronically leads to depression, suicidal thoughts or actions, and substance abuse. An example of these consequences can be found in J.D Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye. The book takes place over the span of a few days in New York, and the readers follow Salinger's main character, Holden Caulfield, as he navigates the transition from childhood to adulthood. During this difficult time, Holden is rejected by taxi…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Great Gatsby Whether it is a reasonable assumption or not, one's voice plays a factor in the world's perception of their identity. Even the most insignificant of details, such as one's dialect or use of grammar, can be a broad statement regarding who someone is as an individual. The narrators of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby use…

in some way. One of the popular coined terms, ‘character development’, expressing the way that characters’ personalities shift and morph throughout a story, is proof of that. In Huckleberry Finn, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and Catcher in the Rye, various authors use character development and unique writing/plot devices to demonstrate that people change, especially as they grow and mature. Although it is the sixth-most frequently banned book in the United States, Huckleberry Finn gives an…

Bartender Tom Hussion pulls out a bottle of whiskey (or rye or bourbon). He cuts a lemon, squeezing the juice into the glass, adding in sugar to make the whiskey sour. But this occasion called for something more. Something better. Hussion daringly adds a squeeze from an orange and then a dash of grenadine. “Delicious! We’ll call it the Ward Eight,” the bar exclaimed—or so the story…

the Mississippi River and how his view changes over time. Twain narrates that he is a riverboat pilot and he informs the reader of the beauty that he encounters on the river. He explains in a exceedingly descriptive and poignant manner. He slowly switches around and indicates that his view of the river has altered the more time he spent on the river. The beauty that he sees diminishes and all he can do is lambaste the river. In this essay, Twain gains a new attitude towards the river when he…

The Mississippi River is a 2,340 mile long river. The name Mississippi comes from the Anishinaabe people who called the river 'Misi-ziibi' which means 'great river.’ Throughout that river is beauty, and mystery for those who seek it. In Mark Twain’s “Life On The Mississippi” describes his experiences on the Mississippi River, and how his viewpoint of the river changed from a positive to negative using figurative, and descriptive language. Twain begins with describing the face of the water in…

is made of the late 1926 floods along the White River. The book by Walter M. Adams about the White River Railroad does not mention any problems until the April floods. One letter from H.J. Armstrong, Chief Engineer of the M&NA, says that something else happened about the first of the same year. In his letter, Mr. Armstrong writes about the bridge settling on the White River bridge in Georgetown, Arkansas. Apparently, the Weather Bureau had a river flood gauge on the pier and was worried about…

to know as it had been explored by many French and British traders and explorers in the early 1800’s. The river Mississippi which is known to be the largest draining system…

farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers. I especially love the buildup, using the imagery of small trickles of water that became creeks and brooks that became tributary to other rivers that became the Mississippi. In cinematic fashion the filmmakers are painting a picture for us in which they depict all of the rivers that run into the Mississippi to look like blood vessels.…