... choose it because I heard it is about a boy who is around my age. In this book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of a private prep school. Because he is afraid that his parents ... leaving, he goes to say good-bye to his little sister, Pheobe, who he admires the most. While talking and playing with her, Holden changes his mind and decides to rejoin his family and because he realizes there are many things that he cannot solve by himself. The theme ... he wants to ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... in turn, embark on a journey that leads to both self-identification and maturation. The Narrator in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, are two such characters. In Bright Lights, Big City, the Narrator escapes family and marriage problems, ... are insecure, and, above all, people who are "phony." He feels that almost nobody is genuine, and that everybody, specifically adults, is "phony."" Holden applies the term "phony" to those who conform to society and have ulterior motives, which he explains to Pheobe when he contem...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... the Rye and Pygmalion and the Themes They Represent In J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from the world of confusion and "phonies" while George Bernard Shaw's main character ... of Pygmalion, Eliza Dolittle, struggles to become a phony. The possible reason for this is that they both come from opposite backgrounds. Holden is a young, affluent teenager in 1950's America who resents materialism and Eliza Dolittle is a young, indigent woman who is living in Britain during the ... He uses the...

• Word Count: 2191
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... people," the people that keep going, the people that have determination, and the people that will survive. It takes so much to stay with it, to survive, to pull through. Holden Caulfield came close to death but he still made it. He contemplated suicide many times in J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Depression can take it all out of us ... but determination brings us back. Holden's brother died and Holden couldnt handle it. He thought about jumping out the window and ending his life but he pulled through until he finally found something that could bring him out of ... ...

• Word Count: 1577
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School