... theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with material that is socially scandalous for its time. As an emotional, intelligent, inquisitive ... , and painfully sensitive young man, Holden puts his inner world to the test through the sexual mores of his ...

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Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 In the first chapter of "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, the narrator, Holden Caulfield, tells us quite a few things about himself and his family. He has on brother that is in the movie writing business and as far as his parents are concerned we find out that they are nice, but irritated easily. He, up until now, attended a school named Pencey Preparatory School, in Angresown ... call a girl he knows called Faith Cavendish to arrange a date, but she couldn't that night and she offered to meet him the next day but he couldn't be bothered to wait, so they h...

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... in Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, are two such characters. In Bright Lights, Big City, the Narrator escapes family and marriage problems, coupled with his monotonous career, through the use of drugs and participation in the infamous New York City nightlife of the 1980's. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden escapes problems at school and the societal pressure to grow up by running away to ... New York City. Though both characters seem to differ on the surface ... ...

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... as she consistently seeks to prove to her tribe and to her grandfather, the current chief, that she does possess the qualities of a leader. Similarly, in the book The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulfield also doesn't enjoy the life that he is living and seeks change, however unlike Kathy and Pai, Holden has a choice in his fate and his own bad decisions eventually lead him down ... because she is unaware of her life being any different. In Never Let Me Go, Whale Rider, and The Catcher in the Rye, the the transition from adolescence into adulthood plays a v...

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... must protect themselves and others from the "evils" of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed "indecent" in one way or another. The censorship of books is a division of censorship that, apart from Internet censorship, receives the most publicity; it is also the most popular form of such censorship. Many banned books are literary classics, such as The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, which ... was listed as the number 6 most challenged or banned book in a list compiled by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) in 1997. (The Controversy Around Banning Books...

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... Chapman emptied his .38, consisting of five bullets, into his back. Lennon cried, "I'm shot, I'm shot,"" then he fell to the ground. The Dakota doorman screamed at Chapman, "Do you know what you've just done?- Chapman retorted, "I just shot John Lennon."" He dropped his handgun and sat down to read Catcher in the Rye. John was rushed to near-by St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, but after ... the bullets crushed his lung and he had lost eighty percent of his blood, he was pronounced dead on arrival. "Within an hour after ... ...

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