... The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger The Main characters in this book are Holden Caulfield. He is the main character. The whole story pretty much revolves around him. He is telling this story to a psychoanalyst but you really start to feel like he is telling it directly to you, or as if you are going through a journey inside of his sick and twisted mind. Another one of the ... 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 care...

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Essay: War's Influence Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueare two novels which are both different and alike. Throughout the novel we see the effects which war has on the characters. The characters however react in different ways. We see the effects of war on the characters in their initial reaction's, the way in which they deal with their new lifestyle of war, and the end psychological result on the characters themselves. Catch 22 and All Quiet on the Western Front are both similar and different, both main characters change and are effected by t...

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... , is obsessed with being rich, and builds his life based on a series of lies. Nonetheless, Jay Gatsby is passionate and optimistic, which is something the reader can relate to. Another example is Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden is a cynical and apathetic teenager; a product of the 1930s. He lacks heroic attributes such as honesty, and he even refers to ... himself as weak. He claims to despise anything "phony", yet it is ironic because he spends the whole novel fighting against society for reasons he ... acquire superhuman powers. As a result of these...

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• Grade Level: High School