29 The Catche Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
How can a society filled with reality TV, plastic surgery, drugs, alcohol, and people that do anything for money tell who is sane or insane? Holden Caulfield is a troubled teenager who cannot seem to do anything correctly in the eyes of a phony society or find a place where he can fit in. He is....
A person is a person through other persons... is a famous quote by Archbishop Desmund Tutu. This quite is saying that people around you have the ability to form who you are and the way you look at yourself. The two pieces of literature that agrees with this quote are, Metamorphosi....
Book Thief and the Catcher in the Rye
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak is about a young German girl, around the age of ten, that is living in the time of the Holocaust, in Nazi Germany. Even though she is German she still faces many of the horrors that many millions of Jews faced at the time. The book is narrated by Death, which....
catcher in th rye
The Catcher in The Rye Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguid....
Catcher in the Rye
In The Catcher In The Rye many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first Holden sounds like a typical misgui....
Catcher in the Rye - Innocence Complex
In J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield finds innocence to be the most important thing one can protect. Innocence plays an important role of creating Holden into the character he is. Salinger uses many symbols and characters to reveal Holdens character and his desire to protec....
Catcher in the Rye and I know why the caged bird sings- Compare and contrast
Peoples past sometimes torment them to an extent that affects their present; making them completely connected to the past and not be able to live their present day to the fullest. The past of a person is one of the most important factors for character development. Some people are haunted forever b....
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
In the book, The Catcher in the rye, Allie Caulfield is the most important character. Allie is Holdens younger brother who died of leukemia at the age of thirteen. Holden claimed that Allie was the brightest of the Caulfields. Holden never truly got over Allies death. One reason is he never f....
Catcher in the Rye Essay
All over the world since human beings began to learn to read and write, fitting in with your peers has been a continuing issue. Many instances in literature authors use the main character to send a message to the reader. Case in point, in The Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caulfield....
Catcher in the Rye Readers Notes
The Catcher in the Rye
Readers Notes
Chapter 1
-The narrator of this story seems to be some sort of hillbilly or something; not very well brought up. He talks in a rude or poorly-educated manner.
-The narrator says his parents are nice people, but wouldnt want him blabbing about them. T....
Catcher in the rye: Transition into adulthood
11th Grade English
14 March 2007
Transition into adulthood
Have you ever felt confused because you were not sure who you were or what your supposed to be? Have you ever separated yourself from a group because you did not think you belonged there? J.D. Salinger illustrates the affects of tra....
character analyasis
Ever since its publication in 1951, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye has served as a firestorm for controversy and debate. Critics have argued the moral issues raised by the book and the context in which it is presented. Some have argued that Salinger's tale of the human condition is fascinati....
Compulsive Lying in Holden - Catcher and the Rye
Theres always that one person in our lives: the compulsive liar. Most of the time, this person is caught saying untruthful statements or is being deceiving to others and even themselves. Is this person really a compulsive liar by definition, or do they just have truth telling issues? Can you ident....
Critical Lens Essay on The Great Gatsby & The Catcher in the Rye
Critical Lens:
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
- J.M. Barrie, 1860-1937
J.M. Barrie once said, Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. To me courage is having the ability to do something that frightens one. I believe that what J.M. Barrie is trying to say i....
Forthcoming of American Literature
The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Advent....
Heroic Journey of Huck and Holden
The two great realistic novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger have a lot in common. The only difference between the two books is that they were written in two different time periods separated by one hundred years. Otherwise, the characte....
Holden Caulfield
Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye is a magnificent character that can be related to in many ways. The struggles with lack of communication with his parents, dealing with maturing, and the insecurity about his future are all obstacles in his life. It is a coming of age novel, because it sho....
Holden Caulfield and Depression - Catcher In The Rye
J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye is a very depressed person. In his life there are some people that help him through his depression, like Phoebe, Jane, Allie and Mr. Antolini. And there are some people that make him feel more depressed, like Sunny, Maurice, and D.....
Holden's Phony Phobia in The Catcher in the Rye
Holden's Phony Phobia in The Catcher in the Rye
What does phony mean to you? Do you consider it something that is not what it really seems? Or even something or someone that isn't normal in all ways or just in some? Phony is one of the words in the English literature that can have numerous int....
Independent reading assignment
Independent reading assignment
Title of book: Go Ask Alice
Sept. 16Dec. 25
Go Ask Alice opens with issues that are as relevant to teenagers today as they were in the 1960s. Alice is a perceptive, sensitive, and insecu....
no need to be scared
No Need to Be Scared
Symbolism adds life and meaning to works of literature. J.D. Salinger uses numerous symbols in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The street, the ducks, and the hunting hat are three important symbols that show how scared Holden Caulfield truly is of growing up.
Growing up ....
Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield
The Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield
The Catcher and the Rye is a novel about a young adolescent, Holden Caulfield, who is expressing his dissatisfaction with the world in many ways that adolescents do today. Holden is smart, but talks in a cynical tone. Although Holden never tells the reade....
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye is a story of an emotionally disturbed young sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield. At first, I expected something totally different from what I got. It tells of an upper-middle class boy his age encounters while on the way home from school. He is an average adolescent w....
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is a novel that is widely taught in American high schools, and the novel is the second most taught in America. This novel is taught all over America because of the various themes and the language in which the book is written. Almost all high school student....
the catcher in the rye
The Catcher in The Rye Many people find that their dreams aThe Catcher in The Rye Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his ps....
The Catcher in the Rye - Phoniness
Phoniness is often used in The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger as the main character, Holden, tries to figure out what is "phony" and what is not. The word "phony" is used many times by Holden. In fact, the book is full of his feelings about phoniness. He uses i....
The Catcher in the Rye - Worlds problems and troubles and its effect on Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger is about a 16-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. After being thrown out of boarding school, Holden decides to stay in New York by himself for a few days rather than facing the anger and disappointment of his parents. Nash K. Burger wrote a review on this boo....
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Melanie Houston
Catcher in the Rye
English IV
The novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, contains many complex symbols, many of the symbols in the book are interconnected. A symbol is an object represents an idea that is important to the novel. There are five major symbols in this nov....
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