Last Day of the Last Furlough

Many people around the world are bullied and are outcasts in society. An outcast is when one has been rejected or casted out by society. This can cause one to continue on their journey of finding someone or lose hope all together. This can cause one to be completely normal or have mental and physical pain that can affect them for the rest of their life. In The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden has moved from place to place, school to school, just to fit in. He is treated like an outcast

the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going. I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." Here Holden exposes his deepest desire and interprets the book's theme. Holden attempts to keep children in the innocence of childhood

What Does Phoniness Mean to Holden? In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a young man named Holden Caulfield struggles to discover who he is inside, and he learns how to see the world after his brother, Allie, dies of Leukemia. Holden becomes a little depressed once Allie passes away. He sees the world as a place full of artificial people, and he can not seem to find anything good to say unless he’s talking about his siblings. His siblings are young and innocent, and these characteristics differ

Introduction “Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. Time is short.” Adam Hochschild. We all have distractions. Sometimes, they are even good. They are always there. We use them when we are lonely and in consequence, we escape our lonely world and enter the boisterous one --- we have escaped to a pathway full of shortcuts. Who are you after you take those shortcuts? Holden Caulfield of J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher In the Rye” is one who unnoticeably takes these shortcuts. When Holden escapes

1 One of the most common and detrimental psychiatric condition is depression. The state of depression has substantial e ffects on a person’s thoughts, behaviour and feelings. Depression entails an emotional stigma which has overbearing feelings of despair and dejection. SigmundFreud encloses the similarities between the roots of depression with the grief experienced bythose who lost a loved one. (Comer, 2005). The author, J.D Salinger, highlights the destructiveimpacts of depression in his book,

Holden Caulfield, pretentious jerk or lost teenage boy? Throughout the book, Holden shares the events in his life, which we later find led him to a mental hospital. It is clear from the start that Holden is not like everyone else. Although he does experience normal human emotions such as anxiety and depression, he deals with them in an abnormal way. In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield fails to represent the voice of real people because of his excessive phony behavior

In J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the character of Holden Caulfield does not convincingly embody a compassionate and caring character. Holden, after having a difficult year at school, finds comfort in his memories of his brother Allie. Another instance of Holden finding comfort, is when he spends time with Phoebe. In the same way, Phoebe is supportive when spending time with Holden. However, this takes a turn for the worse, as Holden reveals to Phoebe that he is leaving. Holden finds comfort

Learning from experience continues to be an important source of lessons in our lives. Experience permits one to become independent, look onward from failure, and learn to make decisions. This is specifically shown in the novel “The Catcher In The Rye” by J.D Salinger. Holden Caulfield, being someone who is unique, strong in his beliefs and ideals, shows sufficient proof to illustrate how development is represented on account of experience. After further examination of Holden’s fight with Stradlater

Symbolism, in literature, is an extremely effective technique. Symbolism helps create a deeper and more complex meaning to a story. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield is portrayed as an adolescent boy trying to understand who he is supposed to be. He is at an extremely vulnerable time in his life since he has just been kicked out of Pencey Prep and doesn’t want his parents to find out. He makes the ultimate decision to leave the school before he

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, scholars tend to agree that Holden Caulfield feels inferior towards others, which lowers his self-esteem, so in order to gain confidence with himself, he feels the need to be superior. Firstly, in the article, Anna Freud and J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield by Robert Coles, Coles introduces a new way of how Holden Caulfield is superior. Coles and Freud discuss different ways Holden Caulfield influences our youth and how that makes him superior (217). For