... ). The cliff symbolizes the fall from childhood into adulthood. Holden wants to be the person who stops the children from becoming adults. He wants to protect the innocence of little kids just having fun playing a game. Holden has so much anxiety about growing up himself that he feels he is a lost cause and he might ... as well focus on the children. Holden uses a lot of reaction formation though out our sessions. He often focuses on innocence and childhood which is the opposite of what he fears, which is growing up. He says the only thing he likes is his dead brother Allie. ... 171). H...

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... experiences, and figures out that he has become a new man. II. Value to the Reader A. This book is recommended to people over the age of fourteen, because the book has concepts that might prove confusing to those under that age. Why Wilson and Henry becomes different people, by the books end, and the symbolism behind the dead soldier in the woods maybe difficult ... show a person's dramatic change, in personality, and we see how they come to do that. In the beginning of both books, both Huck and Henry are very different people, compared to who they become by the end of the novel. Both c...

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