... a loved one. Holden lost his brother, Allie, at a young age. He has had trouble dealing with change ever since. He was very close to his brother and often keeps some memorabilia to remember him and their memories together. Forester also lost a brother. This was a big change in Holden and Foresters life. Holden and Forester have trouble coping with their loss. The ... often turn to alcohol and writing for help. Holden wrote a composition about his brother's baseball mitt to remember him. Forester kept writing book and reading to help him clear out his mind and express his feelings. They ...

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... and feelings, which somehow helps Holden to get over his depression. Holden appears to use Allie to shield him from reality. Furthermore, Holden writes about Allies baseball mitt for Stradlater's composition. Writing about Allies baseball mitt shows how Holden is still attached to Allie. Yet, Holden talking to Allie is pretty crazy itself which clarifies Holden is still not over the fact ... ostracized and lonely due to phonies that are surrounding him. One such, Stradlater whose Holden's roommate contributes to his emotional breakdown. After Holden writes his composition for him about ...

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... Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie's baseball mitt along with him where ever he goes. The mitt has additional meaning and significance for Holden because Allie had written poetry, which Holden reads, on the ... baseball mitt. Holden's preoccupation with death can be seen in his contemplation of a dead classmate, James Castle. It tells the reader something about Holden that he lends his turtleneck sweater to ... ...

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... deceased brother, Allie. Holden doesn't mention Allie until the 5th chapter. In this chapter, he is writing an observation paper for Stradlater. Holden decides to write the paper about Allie's baseball mitt. On page 38, he says, " My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left-handed. The thing that was descriptive about it, though, was that he ... ...

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... does to a phonograph record he buys for Phoebe (till it breaks) and a red hunting cap that is dear to him and that he finally gives to Phoebe, and to Allie's baseball glove. Understanding Holden's notion of innocence and the role it plays throughout the novel helps to put in tune the underlying message found in Holden's description of the catcher in ... ...

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... that he punched out the garage windows and permanently crippled his hand. This caused Holden to miss the funeral and a chance for closure. Holden never does let go. Allie's poetic baseball mitt reminds Holden of what a wonderful person he was. Holden cannot stand to hear Stradlater make fun of the essay he wrote about the glove for Stradlater, so he tears ... ...

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... wouldn't have minded shooting the old crap with Phoebe for a while" (Salinger 67). Holden's thoughts of Allie are shown with the fact that Holden wrote Stradlater's composition on "Old Allie's baseball mitt" (Salinger 38-39). When Holden is talking to Phoebe about what he likes is a third example of his close younger sibling relations. "You can't even think of one thing ... ...

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... I don't get it in. Be a buddy. Be a buddyroo. Okay?" Holden does not respond that he will do it but he eventually does it. He writes it about his brother Allie's baseball glove. His brother Allie was very special to him and has talked with him in times of trouble since his death. When Stradlater finds out about the subject of the ... ...

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... wouldn't have minded shooting the old crap with Phoebe for a while" (Salinger 67). Holden's thoughts of Allie are shown with the fact that Holden wrote Stradlater's composition on "Old Allie's baseball mitt" (Salinger 38-39). When Holden is talking to Phoebe about what he likes is a third example of his close younger sibling relations. "You can't even think of one thing ... ...

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... disability of some sort we later learn that Haden is just a troubled young boy looking for guidance and love. Finding comfort only in his sister, Phoebe, his dead brother Allie's baseball mitt, a red hunting hat, and two little nuns he meets in a subway. J.D. Salinger wrote this book in a clever first-person narrative voice, which makes you feel as though Haden is ... ...

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... several years earlier, is a key symbol throughout the story. When Holden remembers incidents from his past involving Allie, his attitude changes, such as when he writes the composition about Allie's baseball glove or when Holden broke his hand after punching all of the windows in the car garage after Allie died. He feels that Allie was one of the few people ... ...

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... the garage, and broke all the windows with his bare hands, shattering both his hands and landing him in the hospital during Allie's funeral. One of Holden's most prized possessions, a baseball glove on which Allie wrote poems in green ink, first belonged to Allie. D.B. - Holden's older brother, a writer. D.B. used to write stories that Holden admired, but before the start of the ... ...

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... life. He cries very easily, "He packs his bags, dons his hunting hat, and begins to cry." He is a sensitive young man that adores his little sister and treasures the baseball glove of his dead brother. He suffers from an almost uncontrollable urge to protect people he sees as helpless. He is attracted to the weak and the delicate, and he ... ...

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... he used to. When he wrote the essay for Stratlater and Stratlater made fun of it, Holden was so offended that he ripped it up. The essay was about Allie's baseball glove and it was very symbolic of how he felt about his brother. When Holden was sitting in the rain hoping he would die, he had flashbacks to Allie's funeral ... ...

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... the back row She just liked the way they looked when they were all in the back row" (Salinger 31). The way he remembered his brother Allie was by his baseball mitt " he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere He wrote them on it so that he"d have something to read when he was in ... ...

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... knowledge of the adult world. Holden's red hunting cap represents Holden's attraction to unique qualities, which others might miss. He realizes it is unfashionable but likes to wear it as a baseball catcher might. Because it is a hunting cap, we can also suspect that Holden is hunting; hunting for a shred of innocence and authenticity in the adult world. The carrousel is designed ... ...

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... people who weren't phony or corrupted. He made it clear that he loved and admired his brother Allie. When he wrote an essay for Stradlater, he dedicated it to Allie's baseball glove. In Chapter 22, referred to his younger brother as his favorite person, despite the fact that his brother had passed away a number of years ago. In chapter 21, he ... ...

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... stuck all the commas in the wrong place." When Holden finishes the essay based on Allie's glove, Stadlater is critical rather than appreciative. "For Chrissake, Holden. This is about a goddam baseball glove." "No wonder you"re flunking the hell out of here." In frustration, Holden destroys the paper. His resentment and disgust evolve into a fight when Holden is taunted by Stradlater ... ...

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... with Allie. One example is when Holden had to write a composition for Stradlater and he thought about his death brother Allie, saying: "So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. It was a very descriptive subject. It really was- (Salinger 33). Holden deeply misses his brother and even talks to him out loud. These means that Holden feels so lonely ... ...

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... a ten-year old. I consider his kid-brother, Allie's death, triggered the mental illness. He partly feels responsible Ally's death and doesn't let go of it as the holding of the baseball glove. Holden exhibits the usual signs of mental deterioration as performing irresponsible acts as running away. His motives for his behaviors are triggered by betrayals or "phony" actions. If left ... ...

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... girl he loves. " she was a funny girl, old Jane. I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though she was the only one that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it- (p.70) Holden also shows deep, grand love towards his only little sister Phoebe, whom he loves more than anyone. She is ... ...

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