... book is based on an old game where someone catches children from falling off a cliff. This symbolizes that Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye because he wants to protect the vulnerable, especially to prevent small children from losing their innocence and becoming corrupted by society as they grow up. Holden Caulfield is an amusing character because he talks about everyone without my respect ... cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if theyre running and they dont look theyre going I have to come out from somewhere and catch...

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... happened after that, but he fills in the most important details: he went home, was sent to the rest home, and will attend a new school next year. He regrets telling his story to so many people; talking about it, he says, makes him miss everyone. List of Characters For The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield - The narrator of the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a sixteen year ... -old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for failing. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, but he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Though he never says ... Jane ...

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... to run away again, but his connection with his sister holds him back. Holden's final destination in the book is some sort of mental care facility, from where he is telling his story. Throughout the book, The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden suffers from an emotional, mental, and physical disintegration which causes him to be institutionalized. Holden's growing emotional instability shows ... the progression of his downward spiral into illness. When Holden first reveals the death of his brother, Allie, he tells of how he ... He is treating his body so horribly that it is p...

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... , Holden is a teenage boy with many problems. He gets kicked out of yet another prep school and while trying to figure out what to do with his life he looses it. His younger brother, Allie, has died and Holden has been spiraling down since. Overall The Catcher In The Rye is a raw written book that holds back nothing. His father is a lawyer, so his family is ... pretty well off. He and his family are respectable members of New York's high society. They have money ... and social status, all things that make them apart of New York's high society. His family is blue-blooded A-list people .....

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J.D Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" should not be banned at all anywhere in the United States. The book's ideas relate to the majority of teenagers throughout the country. Many say because of the book's profanity and teenage sexual relations, that it is a bad influence on many young adults. However, many teenagers have the same feelings as Holden towards many aspects of life. Of course many teenagers don't wander the streets of ... New York City calling and meeting up with random old friends and most teenagers certainly don't fail out of four different high schools. But Holden's rea...

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... is experiencing. He has a way of putting up this front and making is seem as though everything is okay. One of the reasons why Holden took the time to call Mrs. Marrow or talk to the girls at the bar is because he is missing something in his life. For example, from the essay "The Structure of The Catcher in the Rye" by Brian Way, "Holden's excitement (from just arriving in ... New York City) is the excitement of the fantasist: he is embarking on a dream which is both universally adolescent, and built into a contemporary American mass-culture..." This is ... one of the reasons why he do...

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The story A Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger was all about a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden was a michevious boy from New York City whom always lacked off in his doings. He would never care about school and his grades, but always managed to get a good passing grade in English that was taught by a teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden learns the most valuable lessons about everyday ... life and ... wonders why he has to live the life he has. Holden had three siblings" back home that he thought of most of the time, two of which were older than he was. His oldest brother D.B. w...

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... J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye presents readers with a character who falls short of every tough situation he faces. J.D. Salinger uses Holden's rebellious experiences to link all teenagers in the 1950's and the 1960's together. Holden is unwilling to cooperate, socially and scholastically, which brings about mental and physical problems. His story resonates within the teenage community because ... he reveals likely challenges teens endure while bridging the gap between adolescence and ... also hated Negroes. I hated them for not standing up and doing something about the murders" (30...

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... J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye presents readers with a character who falls short of every tough situation he faces. J.D. Salinger uses Holden's rebellious experiences to link all teenagers in the 1950s and the 1960s together. Holden is unwilling to cooperate, socially and scholastically, which brings about mental and physical problems. His story resonates within the teenage community because ... he reveals likely challenges teens endure while bridging the gap between adolescence and ... also hated Negroes. I hated them for not standing up and doing something about the murders" (303)...

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... Yorker magazine. All this happened before he was thirty years of age, making him feel more like fifty then thirty. After writing his famous novel The Catcher in the Rye, and nine other short stories, Salinger decided to reside in Cornish, New Hampshire, where he claims he continues to write, but there is no evidence of his writing. In 1972 Salinger ... of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory." (Rye 101) A closed lifestyle to some might be to have a house away from the city and a secluded living. For J.D Salinger a closed lifestyle was so much more. After becoming well k...

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... The Catcher in the Rye, the reader is presented with various symbols. These symbols, such as his younger brother Allie, the ducks in Central Park, and the Museum of National History, are clearly made evident by Holden's constant repetition of their importance, and what they mean to him. The symbols are so important and obvious that their symbolism is directly related to the major themes of the novel. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden, the ... narrator, uses symbols and archetypes to relate back to the major themes of the novel: protection, preservation, and innocence. ...

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... out west. When she tries to accompany him, Holden implicitly realizes that the trip west would destroy Phoebe's innocence, and that his erratic behavior would prove harmful to her. He makes the decision to stay to comfort Phoebe and to keep her from falling over the cliff by the rye field before her time. Phoebe is the light countering Holden's overwhelming dark depression. Her name is a species of ... bird known for flicking its tail and hopping about. Phoebe is skinny, "but a good skinny, a roller skate type of skinny ... than if it were written out for the reader. Books cannot be ju...

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Society acceptance J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye focuses on societies acceptance. Holden Caufield attends Pencey, a prestigious school with very high expectations. At Pencey, Holden is excluded by classmates, and frowned upon by the faculty. He sometimes separates himself from his peer group by not becoming involved in school activities. Although Holden participates on the fencing team as the equipment manager, he makes ... a point to not fit in by losing the ... equipment. Holden shows that he does not fit in, and does not want to. At the very beginning of the story Holden is expe...

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