... later sees Phoebe. Phoebe his little sister learns of the news and scolds him. She is worried about the chaos that he is going to cause because of him being expelled from school. He tells her later that he wants to be a catcher in the rye. So he can prevent careless children from falling over the edge while playing in the field. Phoebe corrects him and tells him that he ... has "misquoted burns" and that no one can stay in the rye field forever. He decides to go out west but when he meets his sister after dropping off a note to her school to meet him she wants to ... go out west with h...

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... of salingers novel? "Do you happen to know where the ducks go in the winter-time, by any chance?- During the course of Salinger's novel, Catcher in the Rye, this is the recurring question Holden Caulfield needs an answer to. From the beginning of the journey in the school, Holden's only answer to the question is to run away. He criticizes and philosophizes about people who are boring, people who are insecure, and, above all ... . He wants them to stay as a child and prevent them from the corruption, the dishonesty, the insincerity and most of all, the cold of the outside world. It is int...

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The Catcher in the Rye is the story of Holden Caulfield's fall into depression. As every page turns, Holden does something that pulls him down further into his depression. Without his sister Phoebe, he ... He then decided to never go home or to another school again. He would say goodbye to Phoebe and then hitch a ride out west. There he would get a job and live by himself. Holden then went to Phoebe's school. He wrote a note to her telling her to meet him and the museum so he could say goodbye. When they met at ... the museum, Phoebe had her suitcase with her. She wanted to go with Holden b...

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... . 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; Holden lost sense of who he was leaving him all alone. Holden comes from a moderately wealthy ... own cold world. Following his third expulsion from his third high school, Holden left his most recent ex-school, Pencey Prep, days before he was suppo...

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... must not look at life pessimistically, or they will be forever haunted by fear and anxiety. Rational thinking based on reason is a key to overcoming the misery of false impressions. The works of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Shakespeare's Othello are very similar in many ways, in that they both use akin aspects of characters to reveal how they are alike. Through situations, characters suffered because of ... Holden was at Phoebe's school to deliver a note, he noticed a shocking profanity on the wall, and angrily thought: It drove me damn near crazy I kept wanting to kill whoeve...

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• Grade Level: High School