The Catcher in the Rye

depression during any 1-year period, and between 44-70% of them do not receive any treatment, according to American Association Suicidology. As a result, it is evident that a number of people aren’t able to receive the treatment they urgently need. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, displays a perfect example of a teenager going through chronic depression and his use of different coping methods which eventually leads to a mental breakdown. This teenager, Holden Caulfield, slowly progressed…

Some may say the main character in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, struggles with symptoms of PTSD. As you read the book there’s many clues that lead you to believe that Holden has PTSD. The packet given to us also interprets more vividly the symptoms that Holden was suffering with. PTSD is a disorder that occurs when something tragic has affected someone’s life. Holden experiences many of the symptoms such as anger, depression, being emotionally numb, and being very angry or on edge…

Quivonta Moore Maggert Englis IIIReading November 2nd 2016 [01 month 2016] The catcher in the rye [ don't use the book title for your title. be creative and original. ] Holden fears the adult world but also does things that only adults should do,like drinking and smoke cigarettes because his parents sorta pushed him away by sending him off to schools when he was only seeking attention and comfort after his younger brother Allie died. He hates phoniness because he feels everybody…

He wants to go to the big football game, but instead watches for a short time in the distance, then leaves. This alienation is defined in “A Retrospective Look at The Catcher in the Rye” as “the negative side of detachment” (Rosen 97). Although Holden could easily walk down and watch the game with everyone else, he makes the choice himself to turn around, thus isolating himself even more. However, he quickly reaches out for…

“Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction” and “Hapworth 16, 1924”, all about the relationship of one single family, the Grass family. Although his only work that really made him famous was his first and most polemic and important novel,“The Catcher in the Rye”. J. D. Salinger (January 1, 1919), was born and raised in Manhattan, New York, son of a Jewish father and Scottish mother. Besides being a very intelectual person, he never liked to study, after he got reproved on his school he was…

you miss your childhood? Holden, from the Catcher in the Rye, is one who deeply misses the simplistics of childhood. He is scared of the real world and of all the people in it. He constantly portrays a child-like manner throughout the book. This manner is due to his simplistic self and lack of comprehending that the real world or adulthood actually exists. Due to his fear of adulthood and all the consequences of it, Holden tries to be the “Catcher in the Rye” and save all children from going to…

after detail of Holden’s life, allowing us to better understand his unwillingness to desert the comfort of innocence and conform to adulthood. For example, while speaking to his younger sister, Phoebe, Holden admits he wants to stand in a field of rye where children play and catch them as they near the edge of a cliff; a metaphor for preventing children from transitioning into adulthood. Salinger conveys Holden’s reluctance to move…

The catcher in the rye An individual's life is full of traumatizing events that can twist and turn one's view of the world upside down unexpectedly. The protagonist in the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is introduced as an unstable young man who is full of emotional pain buried inside him but won't seem to let it out. "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life" (Salinger 16). Psychoanalysis theorist Sigmund Freud created the psychoanalytic theory that sets a base for Holden…

In the novel, Catcher in the Rye, Holden faces lots of hardships, and progresses through a series of adventures that have a huge affect on his life. At the end of the novel, Holden was telling this story from an asylum. I believe the author, Salinger, was telling the readers something that we needed to analyze and sink deeper into. Throughout the series of events that Holden went through, it would drive one crazy. You have this kid that is going against the world and is a product of a bizarre…

J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye once said, “An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the Rye, does not seem to be shooting for any type of perfection, seeing as he was recently expelled from his high school, Pencey Prep and doesn’t generally pursue anything anymore. Ever since his brother passed away, Holden lacks motivation in school, relationships, and…