... society. Some people have a religious reawakening while others fall into a deep depression, leaving people unable to do normal, everyday chores, or the entire personality can change. In the case of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist within the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the death of his brother Allie brought upon him grief but also something worse ... . His one time teacher, Mr. Antolini, mentioned this symbolic plunge to Holden, "This fall I think you"re riding for- it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind"(pg. 187, ch. 4). The fall that Holden Caulfield is experiencing stems from...

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... people," the people that keep going, the people that have determination, and the people that will survive. It takes so much to stay with it, to survive, to pull through. Holden Caulfield came close to death but he still made it. He contemplated suicide many times in J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Depression can take it all out of us ... but determination brings us back. Holden's brother died and Holden couldnt handle it. He thought about jumping out the window and ending his life but he pulled through until he finally found something that could bring him out of ... ...

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