Compare Hamlet And Ordinary People

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Through the books we have read in the twelfth grade, three stand out to me as similar. The books Ordinary People, Cather in the Rye, and Hamlet all have characters who are faced with a decision to make on how to live their lives after the death of a loved one. Some decide to dread vengeance on the killer, some decide to bury themselves in a deep hole and wait for someone to care. In the book Hamlet, the main character Hamlet comes back from college to the news of his father’s death. He see’s his father’s spirit who says his uncle killed him, Hamlet acts in rage and plans to get revenge for his father murder. In the book Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield is going through the loss

Conrad gets so depressed that while his parents are away he tries to commit suicide. He doesn’t succeed because of his parents early coming. He is then sent to a hospital to heal the wounds and mental damages. After he gets out of the hospital is faced with the real world situations. When his mother and father are talking, his mother says, “He has escaped this time but even the smallest, most insignificant encounter is alive with complication and danger. He wishes himself, for a moment, back inside the hospital where things were predictable. Mercifully dull.”(Guest 114). Holden wishes that he had never gotten out of that hospital, he wishes that he wouldn’t have to deal with his mom and other people. The only person Conrad is really able to talk his feelings with is his therapist Dr. Berger. Berger is what Conrad would call a trustworthy man. In one of Conrad’s session Berger asks what the overall problem of Con’s life is, Con says, "There 's a guy in the closet. I don 't even know him, that 's the problem."(Guest 146). Conrad can 't go into the closet in order to figure out who he is running from. Berger is trying to get at the point of, how can there be a problem if there is