character. Holden Caulfield helps take his audience on a complicated journey throughout the novel The Catcher In The Rye where readers, particularly in their teenage years, are given multiple opportunities throughout the novel to personally connect to the main character based on the wild yet realistic sequence of events he undergoes. One such event takes place when Holden had failed out of Pencey Prep, and like a typical teenager, preferred if his mother and father didn’t know about it
complains, slacks off, and alienates himself from everyone. However, Holden does engage with the female demographic largely, and does enjoy spending most of his time thinking about women. The novel begins describing the school that Holden attends. Pencey Prep is a wealthy private school that many gifted children attend. Holden does not apply himself and flunks out of the school. Soon before Holden is expelled for his lack of application, he is watching a football game. He is not with anyone else and
understanding of archetypes as universal, patterns and images that derive from the collective unconscious and are understood by all cultures of having a certain representation or symbolic meaning. In both A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Bugress and Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, the archetypes of the outsider and entrapment are portrayed through the main character and their journeys. In fact, both novels outsider character archetypes are amplified by the entrapment setting archetype. The character archetype
The loneliness of locations of J.D. Saliger The Catcher In The Rye Holden travels to many different locations for his desire to connect with other people, to fill a lonely spot inside of him. A location that stands out to Holden is his Pencey Prep school where this all started. In the beginning Holden refuses to apply himself, and after failing four of his five subjects he passed only English and he has been forbidden to return to the school after the fall term. “They kicked me out, I was flunking
existence, we should naturally change the eyes in which we see reality. The infamous novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger gives insight on its protagonist Holden Caulfield who is afraid of the reality of change since he was traumatized at a young age. Caulfield is a 17-year-old boy who lived with his parents as well as his two younger siblings, Phoebe, and Allie before being sent off to attend Pencey Prep, a boarding school. Whilst Holden was 13 years old and living with his family, his younger
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved” Mother Teresa. J.D Salinger integrates loneliness into “Catcher in the Rye” and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” to prove that each and every person needs love, family, and friendship to maintain a healthy and stable mind. Without valuable human connections, it can lead to insanity and depression. With no one to communicate with, it is understandable to feel isolated, misunderstood, and alone. The importance of connecting with
There are many books that recount stories of children in the process of the transition from being an adolescent to an adult. “Lucy” by Jamaica Kincaid and “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger are both books that feature the theme of coming of age. The protagonists of the novels, Holden and Lucy, experience some unfamiliar encounters and changes in their life which subsequently leads them to “grow up”. Due to the differences of their family background, character and experiences, Lucy matures to
In the The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, the author creates two very different settings. One of the settings in this book is Pencey preparatory school in Agerstown. PA. This setting represents innocence because the main character Holden Caulfield in a controlled environment. On page 1 when Holden is introducing himself he says ” I didn't know anybody there that was splendid and clear-thinking” This show what Holden feels about Pencey. In New York City Holden experiences being rebellious and
For many years, even since publication The Catcher In the Rye has been one of the soul topics of discussion in many debates on the subject of banning a book. The novel has received both love and hate, and has been discussed worldwide. The Catcher In the Rye is the story of the recollection of Holden Caufield and his experience of his last Christmas. Holden is a young teenager who has suffered and gone through many life experiences such as death, sex, foul language, smoking, alcohol abuse, and much
lives me us brave or simply cowardly, ignoring the root of the issue, subsequently creating an arrays of new problems in return? Struggling with his very own issue, Holden of The Catcher in the Rye runs from his issues only to find that he what he was truly running from was his own self. Going on a journey from Pencey Prep to the Edmont Hotel, Holden explores his relationship with rules, the connection between youth and adulthood, and what falls under normality. Salinger points out that in trying to