... cannot solve by himself. The theme of this novel is how innocence is corrupted by society. Holden thinks everybody who is grown up is a phony because their behavior and advice are all false. The title of this 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 ... - except me. And Im standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I h...

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... , 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 ... - Holden's former girlfriend, now dating Stradlater. Jane's summer house in Maine is next door to the Caulfields'. Jane never actually appears in The Catcher in the Rye, but she is extre...

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... sister, Phoebe. Holden devises a plan 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 ... few days cause Holden to faint. He is treating his body so horribly that it is pushed to the limit of shutting itself down. Holden's physical disintegrat...

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... 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 ... , distinguished prep schools, and...

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... 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 r...

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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. was a ...

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... is that no one understands the problems he 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-cultur...

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... literature is overcoming adversity. In contrast, 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 ... ...

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... literature is overcoming adversity. In contrast, 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 ... ...

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... will ever see. His novel The Catcher in the Rye was and is a national success. A novel of a seventeen year old boy who doesn't know his place in this off balance appearing society, but tries to search for the answer to all his questions. J.D. Salinger's unique personality and closed lifestyle play a big part in the writing of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger's unique personality can ... be attributed to his ab normal child hood. Born in New York City on the first day of 1919, J.D. Salinger is the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother. After brief periods of enroll...

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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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... as goddess of the moon. All three of the meanings relate to heavenly heights. Phoebe shines as the light in Holden's life, bringing him pure joy when nothing else possibly can. As the moon orbits the earth, Phoebe is always in Holden's thoughts, affecting his decisions for the better, subconsciously holding him back from blindly stumbling off the cliff of the rye field. From the etymology of "luce" ... to "light" to Phoebe's name conveying shining, it is apparent there is much beneath the surface of J.D. Salinger's character's titles. Whether he ... for the reader. Books cannot be judge...

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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 ... out" (106-107) This shows how very vulnerable Holden is. He does not want to go back home, because he does not belong there at the moment, ...

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