When writing this essay, at first I wanted to write about comparing Gatsby with Tom but when we had the final discussion on the final chapters. The scene that was very interesting was the one with all the f-words because it shows that Holden cannot avoid phonies but it also shows that he fails at being the catcher in the rye. What also inspired me to choose the prompt if the book is about the phony world destroying the good things or the good things being able to survive in the phony world is that something similar to that is it will always be both. And at first, I was struggling to find things that will fit the prompt but all I really had to do is identify what the good things in life are to Holden which was pretty easy because we went through
An example of Holden’s changes is when he realizes that he can’t stop even half of the “f**k you’s” in society. You may think it is not important, but it is a vary symbolic point because he realizes that he cannot be the protector or catcher in the rye. Holden dreams of shielding all of the innocent kids from mean words or hurtful comments were shattered by this single declaration. An example of this is when Holden sees the "f**k you" for the first time on the wal...
I would like to discuss how Holden’s misinterpretation of the Robert Burns poem, “Coming Through the Rye”, sums up his deepest desires by taking a journey through his troubled adolescence and his journey to self–discovery that results in his breakdown. According to Phoebe, the original line in the poem is “if a body meet a body”. However, Holden’s misinterpretation of “if a body catch a body” removes all sexual connotations from the original poem. Holden is a deeply disturbed adolescent in search of a way to preserve his childhood innocence. His “red hunting cap” is a symbol of his uniqueness and his rejection to conform to society.
Great literary characters are immortalized and perpetually discussed not because they are individually so grand and majestic, but because they exist as more than themselves. A great literary character truly exists in the external and symbolic associations that the author and audience apply. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals social and emotional elements of his character Daisy Buchanan through the symbols of white dresses and a pearl necklaces in order to convey a message concerning detrimental class values, a theme that can be better understood by comparing Daisy to a diamond.
...common in human beings, and the demonstrations that have been considered in this term paper are not the only examples that live in the novel that call up the difficulty of considering with change. believe about Holden lowering out of yet another school, Holden departing Pencey Prep and, for a while, dwelling life in the cold streets of New York town all by his lonesome. The book ends abruptly, and gathering condemnation of it is not rare. It's an odd cliffhanger, not because of the way it's in writing, but because of a individual desire to glimpse what Holden finishes up doing with his life. Perhaps, as he augments up, he'll learn to contend better through change. Imagine the death of Phoebe, decisively an event that would be similar to Allie's tragic demise. if an older Holden would reply the identical as did a junior one, is a inquiry still searching for an answer.
The discontent about The Cather in the Rye is due to vulgar language and sexual themes within the novel. The vulgar and inappropriate content does not prevent the reader from comprehending themes, symbols, and lessons and underlying meaning of the novel. In the novel, the main character, Holden, goes through many experiences that are deemed as inappropriate and are evident to the reader. But once the reader searches and analyzes the underlying meaning of the novel and situations and how Holden reacts to these situations, there is a great deal of redeeming and positive value from the novel. This then further supports the themes and symbols presented in the novel. While people may see the main character as someone who is dimwitted and possesses no ethical standards, he faces such scenarios which put that to the test and prove it wrong. And from that, students can learn the theme of individuality and coming of age. In ...
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel based on Gatsby’s dream and hope. In order to enrich the story, symbols are used to emphasize what the author is saying and they create a curiosity in the reader as they are frequently used throughout the story. These three symbols – green light, valley of ashes and the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg are not connected to each other but each of them represents important things in the story.
this flashback, Jordan explains to Nick how she first met Gatsby. She explains to Nick
“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it; he did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.” (Fitzgerald, 180). This novel, The Great Gatsby, was written by an insightfully amorous man names F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story was, loosely, based off of his life of love, trouble, parties, and death. The Great Gatsby is a story about an observant unbiased man named Nick Carraway who helps out young proscribed love. But he fails to perceive the foreshadowed future of the two estranged couple that is Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Throughout the entire novel, all the way till the end, Gatsby never gives up on his hope to win Daisy over from Tom. Whenever Gatsby feels that he has won, something happens that brings everyone, including him, disappointment.
J.D. Salinger presents Holden Caulfield as a confused and distressed adolescent. Holden is a normal teenager who needs to find a sense of belonging. All though Holden’s obsession with “phonies” overpowers him. Dan Wakefield comments, “The things that Holden finds so deeply repulsive are things he calls “phony”- and the “phoniness” in every instance is the absence of love, and , often the substitution of pretense for love.” Holden was expelled from Pencey Prep School not because he is stupid, but because he just is not interested. His attitude toward Pencey is everyone there is a phony. Pencey makes Holden feel lonely and isolated because he had very few friends. Holden’s feeling of alienation is seen when he doesn’t attend the biggest football game of the year. His comments on the game: “It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn’t win” (2, Ch. 1). This also hints to Holden’s obsession with death. Holden can’t find a since of belonging in the school because of all the so-called phonies. Holden speaks of Pencey’s headmaster as being a phony. Holden says that on visitation day the headmaster will pay no attention to the corny-looking parents. Holden portrays his not being interested by saying, “all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to buy a goddam Cadillac someday, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses”(131, Ch. 17). Holden does not care for school or money. He just wants everyone to be sincere and honest.
In life, we ask ourselves the question what we are? In addition, we also ask ourselves how our perspectives allow us to see this world? These questions are an opening idea’s, which requires the person answering it, to be fully aware of his or her life, and then have the ability to judge it without any personal bias. This is why, in the book that was and is in a sense is still talked about in class, The Great Gatsby, which is a book that follows a plethora of charters all being narrated by, Nick Caraway, a character of the book The Great Gatsby. Nick Caraway is the character in the book which judges and describes his and other character’s actions and virtues. Now we speak of a character whose name is Jay Gatsby or other whys known as James Gatz, which is one of the characters that Mr. Caraway, seems to be infatuated with from the start of the book. This character Jay Gatsby develops a perspective, which in his view seems to justify his actions by the way that he saw the world that he was living in. In this essay, I will explain why the ambitions of a person, can lead them to do things that are beyond there normal character.
There comes a time in every person’s life when they begin to take notice of the fake people that exist in the world around them. For main character, Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, this time begins in Holden’s teenage years. As he begins to observe the authenticity of the people in he encounters, he notices a vast difference between those he identifies as phony over those who are true to themselves. Holden is a teenage boy, who attends the school of Pencey Prep, but is later kicked out due to the minimal effort he puts into his schoolwork. He then decides to seek out New York, where he encounters new people in the ‘adult world’. There are several instances where he makes a personal judgement as to whether
Whether or not if this book is good or not you won’t find out till you read this essay. The Catcher and the Rye is just about a 17-year-old guy named Holden which is our main character talk about a crazy adventure/story on what happened to him a year ago on why he left everything he had and moved to California. It all starts out at his school Pencey high but he couldn’t just leave he had to say his goodbyes. As a person/character, Holden is Immature, dishonest, and depressed.
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Innocence, according to Holden Caulfield, is sacred. He is so obsessed about protecting children from corruption that is tear’s him apart. The swear words written on the school walls represent the corruption that children face everywhere they go. These swear words make Holden unbelievably angry, for he thinks that they expose school children to adult themes that they should not know at such a young age. He is also infatuated with the idea of being a ‘catcher in the rye’, as mentioned when talking to his sister Phoebe.
Holden tries to hold on to the childish belief that human behavior should be driven by a happier existence alternately than materialistic notions. He is disturbed by his brothers sudden desire for success, but clearly