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Salinger’s time period affected The Catcher in the Rye by showing what it was like to be a teenager, albeit a rich, privileged one, soon after World War II (the book was published in 1951 and probably took place a couple years before) and right as the world was drastically changing from the advances and the alliances made during that time period. This, while not shown overtly throughout the text, is evidenced by Holden’s mentioning the atomic bomb and his older brother’s, D.B., time in the army…

The fiction novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger depicts a lonely teenager that struggles with growing up and entering the adult world. The author gives the lonesome boy two different advices through the separate conversations he has with his former English and History teachers. Holden, the main character, had a different way of responding for each advice given by his teachers. At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Spencer explains to Holden that "life is a game" (Salinger, 8). A game…

Holden Caulfield, a boy unknown of where he stands, isolates himself during the novel The Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger describes Holden in a way that makes the reader empathize him, and want to reach out to him. Alone in New York for most of the novel, Holden goes through many moments alone. He has no regards for his actions, and when people confront him about them he gets upset. Holden appears in many circumstances where he feels uncomfortable and upset, and sometimes he does not have…

When sunny (prostitute) leaves Holden Caulfield’s hotel room with Maurice (pimp), Holden Caulfield starts to contemplate about committing suicide” In the novel, The Catcher In the Rye on page 104, it states, “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window.” This means Holden wanted to kill himself because he felt miserable. However, the modern teenager cannot with connecting Holden Caulfield…

adulthood. He doesn’t want other children to experience the "phoniness" of the world and become corrupted by society. While he was talking with Phoebe, Holden says that he wants to be a catcher in the rye, to save the children from falling off the cliff. What Holden means by ‘Being a catcher in the rye’ is that he wants to protect children’s innocence from entering the world of adults. Towards the end of the novel, Holden meets up with Phoebe, who plans on traveling West with her brother. Holden…

in the Rye by JD Salinger a novel about a kid who flunks out of five schools and does not want to face the hardship of being an adult is finding it hard to comply with his thinking. In Rudyard Kipling poem if it shows .many life changing stanza that have significant meaning. While Holden faces difficulties in dealing with becoming an adult, judging on first sight, and not being truthful. Growing up and becoming an adult is something that everyone has to eventually face. In Catcher in the Rye…

The book I’ve been reading is called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. For those who haven’t read the book, basically it's about a boy named Charlie who is 15 years old and he’s starting his freshman year of highschool. The book is a bunch of letters written to an anonymous person who never writes back, so it’s kind of like a diary recording everything throughout the year and he goes through a lot. His issues, his friends issues, his family's issues while he’s still trying to…

2. In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Holden is in a bar after wandering around in the city for a while. He glimpses three women and attempts to give them a seductive and "cool glance," though it only makes them "giggl[e] like morons." By using Holden's typical colloquial and vulgar way of speaking and making the women giggle at his underwhelming attempt at being sexy, Salinger highlights Holden's youth and inexperience. Instead of speaking eloquently and politely, Holden simply says what is…

Topic: “How Salinger uses Holden’s red hunting hat as a means of disassociating Holden from adulthood, a reminder to Holden of his deceased brother, Allie, and as a symbol of safety in times of vulnerability.” 1. Detail: “I bought [this red hunting hat] in New York that morning… I saw it in the window of this sports store… just after I noticed I’d lost all the goddamn foils.” (p 17) Effect: This is the first time the reader is introduced to Holden’s beloved red hat. He purchases it just…

In J.D. Salinger’s best selling novel, Catcher in The Rye, he utilizes equivocation alongside despair to block out true progress. For example, Holden Caulfield, the main character of the book, uses ambiguous language to hide his current health state. He struggles with making progress, yet at the same time reverting said progress. The issues he face are not because of the trauma he has lived through, but rather how he deals with it. Because Salinger incorporates equivocation and despair in…