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The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey are two novels written by J.D. Salinger. While the books explore different ideas, there are several common themes that run throughout the two novels. The themes of innocence, sadness, mortality, isolation, education, and dissatisfaction are all similar in Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye. The main character in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield. Holden is a seventeen-year-old boy…

In Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith focuses on Francie Nolan, a young child suffering the hardships of poverty in the streets of Brooklyn. In the exposition, Francie lives with her mother, Katie, brother, Neeley, and father, Johnny, in a small tenement. Johnny earns money for the family waiting tables and singing at restaurants, but he is an alcoholic, which makes it difficult to provide a steady income. Katie is forced to work as a janitor to pay off rent, while the children…

'A Tree Grows In Brooklyn' starts out depicting the scene out of Francie's eyes looking at a tree growing outside her window. It becomes apparent to readers the family Francie belongs to a poverty-stricken. In the early chapters we find out Francie loves the library, reading, and learning to her it's like a “get away.” We also retain the knowledge that Francie's grandmother, Mary, never learned how to read or write “... but she had in her memory over a thousand stories and legends.” Mary sends…

didn’t like how Jesus got angry in the synagogue. She also did not like how he valued people more than animals. Zooey points out that Franny has not been saying the Jesus Prayer to Jesus. Rather, she has been saying it to “Jesus and St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all in one”’ (Salinger 166). He tells her that her efforts in saying the Jesus Prayer are futile if she does not say it to Jesus. The Gutres family misinterprets the role of Christ because of their illiteracy. They…

Nick and Franny’s DC Spy Tour Nick and Franny have been looking forward to their visit for some months. Franny has had a very hard year physically including her final surgery which has left her with limit vision in her left eye. This has affected her vision and balance. Nick is using this trip to help Franny relax from the year of surgeries and doctors. He has a developed a Spy Tour of DC to help during her recovery. They both share a love of David Baldacci novels and this visit is the…