... his character is their " inability to cope with situations they do not completely control" (French 121). Also, "Holden Caulfield moves from prep school to prep school, is threatened with military school, and knows an older Columbia student, among other similarities." (sparknotes). Today, Salinger lives a recluse life in the hills of New Hampshire ... any time period and still contain all of the same meaning. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist and narrator, is a sixteen year-old junior at Pencey Prep. When we first meet Holden, he says, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing ...

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... last chapters, which take place somewhere in California in a psychiatric rest home. The main action of the novel takes place first at a boarding school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania and then mainly in New York City. The narrative evocative of Manhattan in the 1950's, taking place at and around the various ... especially Holden himself. Holden's journey begins on a Saturday in December, just before school closes for Christmas break. He has been informed of his expulsion from Pency Prep school. What worries him the most about being kicked out of school is his parents" reaction, for he has alre...

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... he was a young man at the age of sixteen. The story starts off at Pencey Prep, Holden's present school at which he was flunking out of. Holden had only a few more days before his expulsion from Pencey, so he had been paying his final dues to his admired instructors, such as Mr ... . Spencer, Holden's elderly History teacher. After spending some bothersome hours with Mr. Spencer, Holden returned to his room in Ossenburger Memorial Hall. There he was visited by Robert Ackley whom he disliked with a great passion, however he still had a conversation with him about school ... fight that Hold...

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... he has saved up to go to New York for a while until it would be time for him to come home. Holden was kicked out of Pencey Prep School for not having the grades and this is not the first time this has occurred. He fears that his parents will be disappointed in him and because ... the publishing of this book. The events in The Catcher in the Rye are similar to the events in Salinger's live, such that he was frequently changing prep schools, and that he attended but never graduated from Columbia College. He refers to a young man that Holden knew from Columbia, hence the connection. Salinger...

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... , unstable teenager who can't seem to find his way in life. Despite being quite intelligent, he has been kicked out of five different schools, including his current school that he is being expelled from, Pencey Prep. His roommate there, Stradlater, and another boy they live next to, Ackley, stress Holden out a lot. Holden doesn't enjoy the company of many people, only his younger ... , but he had died a few years prior. Allie's death took a major toll on Holden and he began a downward spiral into mental illness. Before Holden was to be sent home from Pencey for good, he decides to leave e...

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J. D. Salinger's critically acclaimed novel, The Catcher in the Rye follows the journey of Holden Caulfield, a young boy who returns home to New York after being ousted from yet another prep school. Throughout the novel, Holden shares his animosity towards what he sees as a phony society, filled with phony people and phony things. Within the novel, Salinger has created numerous symbols, such ... writing style of The Catcher in the Rye. In a similar capacity, the use of motifs by Salinger were frequent throughout The Catcher in the Rye. After being kicked out of Pencey Prep, Holden is forced ...

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... . Therefore Holden serves as an intermediary for him. Early in the novel we learn that Holden isn't much for education. He has just been kicked out of a private school that he currently was attending, Pencey Prep, because he had failed in all of his courses. In a conversation that he has with a former professor, Mr. Spencer, he makes a very interesting point to Holden. He ... says, "I believe you also had some difficulty at the Whooton School and at Elkton Hills." (Page 13). Holden was failing out of his third private school! "I didn't have too many difficulty ... like the Army at all. ...

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... not only his actions but his intellectual ability is still at a kid stage as well. He has had to leave four schools and flunked out of Pencey prep school. "They really will. This is about the fourth school I've gone to." (J.D. Salinger 13) I find that Holden lacks the intellectual ability to progress thoughts and to realize what he is doing with his reality. This ... ...

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger tells a story of a young man named Holden Caulfield and the experiences he faces after being dismissed from school. On his trip, he meets many different people all of whom he viciously criticizes and complains about adult evils. Holden Caulfield consistently condemns adult corruption and the "phoniness" in people, ... Lunts; he even admits that "the show wasn't as bad as some I've seen" (125) after it was over. Another example of his hypocrisy is evident when he criticizes his school, Pencey Prep, but then later praises it for having a good academic ra...

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... 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 Holden it is usually his poor characteristics, we later than find out his positive side and true meaning behind his actions; and how he ... their innocence, after a while he realized he couldn't. He couldn't because there was already too much evil in the world. As Holden is walking up the stairs to his sister's school to leave a note requesting a final meeting,...

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• Grade Level: High School