The Last Lecture

additionally serving as the impetus for his increase in depression. Despite the outreach from supportive characters such as Mr. Spencer and Mr. Antolini, Holden continually favors acts of rashness over the transition to maturity and responsibility. When the last of Holden’s innocence is challenged by the adult world, Holden denounces all logic and desperately tries to preserve the ingenuousness of not only his…

Steven Besson 4-29 Pd. 1-2 The Catcher in the Rye Motifs The red hunting hat Beginning: “I put on this hat that I’d bought in New York that morning. It was this red hunting hat, with one of those very, very long peaks. I saw it in the window of this sports store when we got out of the subway, just after I noticed I'd lost all the goddam foils. It only cost me a buck. The way I wore it, I swung the old peak way around to the back—very corny, I'll admit, but I liked it that way. I looked good in…

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…

paper down then and looked at me like he’d just been beaten hell out of me in ping- pong or something” (17). It makes Holden feel upset because his teacher gets mad about Holden’s effortless manor. Holden really cares about Mr.Spencer and when he lectures him about getting kicked out of school, and his imperfections Holden feels uncomfortable and apologizes the whole time. Another example of Holden in an awkward situation is when Holden wakes up in the night at Mr. Antolini’s house and says,…

Argumentative Essay Holden Caulfield’s actions are a reflection of some aspects of the modern teenager. The novel by J.D Salinger portrays the life of Holden Caulfield, a peculiar mind dealing with the many conflicts life unexpectedly shows him. This said the modern teenager can have some connections to Holden Caulfield. To start, Holden Caulfield is immature displaying childish behavior. Second, he shows he is judgemental. However, he does display some disconnections from modern teenagers,…

Social norms can be defined as the informal understanding that govern the behavior of members of society. Based on this definition Holden Caulfield and Chris McCandless can be seen as the antonym of social norms. Holden Caulfield is a rich teenager that has been kicked out of more schools that he can count. Holden believes that nearly everyone and anything is a phony and expresses his disgust of them throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye created by J.D Salinger. Because of Salinger’s…

Throughout the novel, J.D. Salinger shows us that Holden fears growing up and has a mental breakdown as he transitions to 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…

Have you ever got advice, but not listened to the advice you received. In Catcher 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…

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…