... a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques"(17.21). Holden doesn't want to leave his childhood behind, which he why he has control over ... he did have to follow the social guidelines designated by it. Pai and Kathy both were subject to a set of principles that were expected from them. As we explore the stories of Never Let Me Go, The Catcher in the Rye, and Whale Rider, it becomes clear that fa...

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