... is a novel that deals with a troubled boy named Holden Caulfield. He tells the story from a mental asylum, of how he is never applying himself and getting kicked out of schools. The book deals with many of Holden's problems including depression, individuality, deception, but mainly maturity. Holden seemed very intellectual through out the book, even though Pencey ... and understandable which was how he wished his life was. But as the story unfolds, the reader begins to realize that Holden was only trying to avoid maturity and becoming a man. Holden hides from his adulthood by getting kick...

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• Grade Level: High School

Our world is a vastly populated planted filled with different ideas and perspectives. In the novel, "The Catcher In The Rye", Holden Caulfield views life in a peculiar and unique way contrary to how most of us see it. He is an orange in a basket of apples. What ... and interpret how he feels towards certain things. He views people differently and behaves peculiarly. He also isolates himself for self-protection. "Phoniness", one of Holden's favorite concepts, is used throughout the novel to describe many different things. He uses phoniness to describe the hypocrisy and superficiality of the wor...

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• Grade Level: High School

Holden Caulfield is suffering from the severe depression and is socially incompetent which enables him to not form lasting relationships with friends or family. This comes from being alone all the time not sharing his feelings with anyone. He constantly feels betrayed by society as Mr. Spencer who told him about his expulsion from Pencey Prep. Holden felt the adult world was full of ... of the cliff). Also, he finds comfort talking to his ten-year old sister, Phoebe, whom he feels is the most intelligent of all. This kind of behavior tells that Holden consider himself alienated from society t...

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... can have serious psychological repercussions. Such is demonstrated in the character of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. While residing in a mental hospital in California, Holden explains the events that led to his downfall. Within his story, all the reasons for his extreme unhappiness are revealed. Holden's severe depression is made apparent through his inward emotional turmoil, phoniness, and ... nonetheless human, albeit dehumanized, and constitute a fair average of what the culture affords" (Aldridge 2). Almost everyone he meets is unrightf...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. The main Character is Holden Caulfield through the entire novel. In several ways Caulfield and Fletcher measure up to each other. Jerry Fletcher and Holden Caulfield have some relationship with each other. They compare in several ways. Holden feels as if he is trapped and is exclude and victimized by ... with people around the city and working in New York a vast amount of people comes through there day in and day out. Jerry Fletcher and Holden Caulfield share the same sense for other people. They seem to always have something to say and there isn't ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... chosen for him. The major theme that this book entails is the idea of conformity, and its dangers. Taking that into account, the main character, Holden Caulfield decides to take a roundabout route in life and enjoy himself a little bit more. Part of the reason he decides to do so is because he ... the superiors at Welton Academy, seventy-five percent of them actually get into Ivy League colleges, and fulfill their parents" dreams. In this case, just like Holden Caulfield wants to do more in his life than what is just mainstream, a group of boys in "Dead Poet's Society establish a poetry c...

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Catcher in the Rye - Phoniness and the quest for innocence Holden Caulfield is an adolescent boy who is preoccupied in preserving the innocence of children. He does not want to lose that innocence because that would ... their innocence. But he does realize that as they grow older, the innocence will diminish and they will, sooner or later, become phony. The only times that Holden is purely happy are when he is dealing with children, because they are uncorrupted. He wants to preserve the children's innocence, particularly his younger sister's, Phoebe. That ... treat each other and feels that th...

• Word Count: 1033
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School