What is lost innocence? Many people assume it is losing innocence in the form of sexuality. Yes, it is, but lost innocence can also be in the form of death. In Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger takes his readers into the mind of Holden Caulfield who deals with his own loss of innocence starting at a young age to being a junior in high school. Holden first deals with the loss of innocence at a very young age: his brother’s, Allie’s death. As he gets older, he deals with not just his own lost innocence
The people Holden meets throughout The Catcher in Rye by J.D. Salinger have large impacts on Holden’s ideas and mental state. But then again the people the reader does not get to see, have an equal if not greater impact on Holden’s life. Holden’s story starts when he is once again is kicked out of school and has to face his parents with the news. Instead Holden decides to take a detour into New York City. Holden does many strange things as his depression and mental illness deteriorate. He hired a
The Glove Engraved into a baseball mitt reveals the audiences only true encounter with Allie Caulfield, the younger brother of Holden Caulfield in the novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”. Elegantly embroidered in green ink are a series of poems in which young Allie had written all over so he would have something to read at outfield. Seeming maybe banal, this is the only physical artifact Holden has left of his deceased brother. Prior to and after his death, the relationship Holden held with Allie generated
Growing up is a difficult part of life, even when making mistakes and learning more about yourself along the way. Throughout a teenager's life, there are new and exciting freedoms, along with catches of maturing. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield has struggled and tried to escape from his youth but is unable to transition from adolescence to adulthood under his preferences. Through the uses of name calling, repetition and language of depression Salinger develops
The 1950s in North America, specifically Canada, were just like (very similar?) the 1920s. It was as if a reset button had been pressed, fast forwarding life thirty years, giving Canadians another try at economic prosperity. After the financial downfall of the Great Depression and national toll of World War II, there was a motion of moving forward that came along, resulting in many changes and the magnitude birth of the teenager. Prior to the 1900s, the concept of a teenager did not exist. There
Society's ever changing view of the typical norm really places people close to the point of becoming social outcasts. Should one not find how to adapt to society and its standards, one will never really be at ease. Holden Caulfield in “The Catcher In The Rye” by J.D. Salinger is a perfect example of this. Holden has been kicked out of multiple schools and his excuse being that people at particular schools are phonies and it annoyed him to no end. But what Holden fails to realize is that he yearns
books into the Dewey Decimal system which is a challenge when I am a junior in high school. For my sixteenth birthday, my parents bought me a prodigious stack of classic literature for me to read. The books ranged from The Invisible Man to The Catcher in the Rye to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Sometimes, I even research lists of banned books and the reason for the banning. Reading is my passion and is one of my many reasons for wanting to be a high school English teacher. After I graduate college
For example, becoming a catcher in the rye is his goal; his desire involved saving children from losing their innocence. He desires possession of a world where marshmallow clouds of white and aqua blue skies exist, with girls and boys dancing or playing around, laughing, on meadow
(Jennifer Aniston) is a married thirty-year old woman battling with depression. She soon takes a liking to an oddball stock boy named Holden (Jake Gylenhall) who seems to be convinced he is the reincarnation of Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher
Written by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye illustrates a sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield as he explores New York and, more importantly, the struggles of adulthood. At the start of the novel, Holden is preparing for his departure from his boarding school. He has been expelled yet again. Holden runs into conflict with his roommate and ultimately decides to leave three days earlier than planned in order to escape the school and people around him that he very much dislikes. He heads to New York