... too immature and is very inappropriate. Holden drinks and smokes, showing even more misdirection while on this joyride away from school and home. Holden returns home and talks to his sister, Phoebe. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye to protect children from the world in which he is must live. While talking with Phoebe, she asks Holden what he would want to be when he ... the figures in the exhibits always stay the same. He wants to be able to preserve some things in the glass: "Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those b...

• Word Count: 1143
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Catcher in the Rye, a novel by J.D. Salinger, he describes Holden Caulfield (the main character in the novel) as a sixteen year old junior who at first appears to be a crazy weird and obnoxious kid. In the beginning of the novel Salinger starts off with Holden who has just been expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep. Even though whenever we think of ... with Holden unless he goes home. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden views children as innocent, and tries to protect them from the evils of society. In The Catcher in the Rye, evil is trying to corrupt innocence. Ch...

• Word Count: 612
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... society. Some people may have a religious reawakening while others fall into a deep depression, which can disrupt their ability to do normal, everyday chores. The person's entire personality can also change. In the case of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist within the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the death of his brother Allie brought upon him much pain and grief but it also caused him to lose sense of who he was ... cold world, where everyone was a "phony". Following his third expulsion from his third high school, Holden left his most recent ex-school, Pencey Prep, days before he was s...

• Word Count: 1137
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School