... says to Phoebe once that Allie is the only thing that he likes. The only problem is, Allie's dead and Holden doesn't believe in the afterlife. In Chapter 21, Holden visits Allie's grave. The coincidence of Allie's memory and Holden's preoccupation of the ducks in Central Park help to explain one of the main metaphors of the novel. Holden is bothered by sudden, inexplicable disappearances. The ducks have vanished suddenly just as Allie ... and his actions in the story, we can piece together the anxiety, the stress, and the suffering he endures through this difficult time in his life. Alt...

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... a typewriter. Holden justifies his behaviour, and believes his actions were completely normal as seen in the phrase, "So what I did was, I went down the hall and woke up Frederick Woodruff, this guy I'd lent my typewriter to"(Chapter 7) . The text is also inspired by the literary technique of stream of consciousness. The technique draws upon the continuous flow of sense perceptions, thoughts and feelings as well as conveying ... of Holden's character, which is a key element in the ongoing success of the Catcher in the Rye. The symbolism used in the book, plays a vital role in developing...

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... . This is very effective because it makes the reader far more interested. Both writers base some of the thoughts and feelings of the child characters Davy and Paddy, by looking back at their own lives. A good example is where Roddy Doyle has looked back at his own childhood in the extract The Gang. It is a chapter in which Paddy and his friends are in a gang. It is quite a cruel gang ... because it involves being beaten with a poker if they don't say a word that is considered bad enough by the leader. The person who says the worst word then adopts the word as his name. For example from h...

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... they have filled it with phoniness. Holden is "forced", because he does not understand the adult world, to invent a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy. He uses the concept of "phoniness" to describe the superficiality, hypocrisy, and pretension of the adulthood. Chapter 22 is the most relevant that every adult is inevitably "phony" and that they can not see their ... own phoniness: "it was full of phonies" and "even the couple of nice teachers on the faculty, they were phonies, too"( Salinger,151). ... inevitable, Holden learns to deal with it and accepts...

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