... 're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I did all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. Holden wants to stop children from falling into losing their innocence and becoming an adult, ... that were not financially stable, because he was a phony. Holden also maintains a lack of responsibility throughout the whole book. He was the equipment manager of the fencing team at Pencey, but he lost the equipment on the subway. He also failed out of two schools for lack of effort and absences ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... childhood and he will find himself in a position in which he will have to choose. His alienation is probably a way to protect himself. But the truth is that interactions with other people confuse him. Thus his cynical sense of superiority serves as a type of self- protection. In contradiction, he ... always needs human contact and love as seen with all his meeting through the book. For example, his loneliness made him to date Sally Hayes, but his need for isolation causes him to insult her. Therefore, he depends ... the complexity and the ambiguity of the adult world. At the end of the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... because of his desire. The Call to Adventure is the first step in the Cosmogonic Cycle, it is the step at which the character or hero is brought into cycle. The Threshold Crossing is the second step, it is the place or the person that which the character crosses over or through into the Zone Unknown. The Zone Unknown being the place where the journey takes place. The threshold crossing is often associated ... with a neurotic and pragmatic frame of mind and exits with a cleared mind. The use of symbolic death and motifs is associated with the Threshold Crossing, the second step of the Cos...

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• Grade Level: High School