Every teenager goes through the struggles of wanting to be liked and not wanting to become prepared for the real world. In the book The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger, a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield is a person that struggles in life by the fact that he has been kicked out of several schools, and also the school Holden is currently going to Pencey prep school. One reason he gets kicked out of school is because Holden grades are terrible. So he goes on this journey to find who he is and to make himself feel better about who he is and trying to become the guy that he wants to be honest and humble in life. This novel still has a place for high school students of the 21st century for the reason that they can relate with Holden …show more content…
I wanted genuineness. I didn’t want all those “stupid” adults telling me how to dress, wear my hair, or act with my peers” (Parini). He has the same beliefs that Holden had about becoming adult that it is bogus and people should not be able to tell you what to look like, what to wear and how to communicate with the people you are around. So after reading what Parnini wrote and looking at his picture, he seems to be a lot older then a teenager. He was probably writing about his younger days and how he felt becoming a young adult and the connection he had with Holden. Even though Parnini is older and not a teenager anymore he is trying to get across that teenagers today can still have the same feelings he had and how he shared a connection with Holden that they both did not want to become adults. This shows that teens today are still connected with Holden as well on the fact that teenagers do not what to grow up and be told what to do and how to look as well. All of a sudden out of nowhere Holden got this urge to horse around to do a wrestle hold on …show more content…
The students can relate with Holden on the degree that they have had times in their lives where they could not connect with people at school or other activities and it creates emotional conflict with them feeling all alone and misunderstood. The universe is always developing in tiny ways but the major things in life seem to remain the same and especially in generations of hopelessness of not finding connections with people. There is no refusal in the emotion of feeling completely lonely and misconceived (Dougan). Through time, the insignificant ways of life is evolving while the larger things in people's life spans are staying the same, and there are periods in life where people can not connect with one another. Also people can not look the other way of feeling ostracized, so this makes people feel like no one can understand them at all. This is meaningful because teenagers can associate with this statement by the fact that they would have at one point in their life feel no connection with others like Holden felt at Pencey Prep school. From this it can make teens feel that nobody is there for them and can truly understand them as a person, so this can cause the emotion of being alone. So Holden is on the fencing team and they were coming back to school after their match and “the whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train”
J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, uses the behaviour of protagonist Holden Caulfield to shape his personality in the way he alienates himself from the rest of the world. Holden alienates himself from the society he lives in, his relationships with others and also the relationships he has with himself. Holden struggles to cope with the fact that eventually he will have to grow up, and so will everyone around him. Holden see’s the world not being perfect as a huge problem that he alone has to fix because everyone else is too much of a ‘phony’ to do it. The novel explores Holden’s weekend after he got kicked out of his fourth school, Pency Prep, and the struggles he faces with alienating himself.
In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s story represents a coming of age for all young adults. In the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is an immature teenager. Holden gets kicked out of his school, Pencey Prep, for failing four out of five of his classes. He says, “They kicked me out.
Holden’s endless journey begins when he received the call when he is expelled from Pencey Prep because of his low grades. Holden starts out as a college student that is damaged deep down his heart. The world before his journey was full of phonies as he commented, “Also at the threshold, the initiate will encounter a helper” (Ariane Publications 9). The helper usually leads the main character into the essential path before any accomplishments. In this condition, Holden’s former History teacher Mr. Spencer takes the role. He asks Holden,” Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?” (Salinger 20). He warns Holden about the difficulties that are waiting for him ahead but also pushed Holden forward to the journey. Even though Holden did refuse the journey by lingering at school after he got the expel letter. Nevertheless, the talk with Mr. Spencer may have aff...
The novel The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger depicts a journey of a young man named Holden Caulfield where he encounters many of life’s challenges. As Holden has been bouncing between schools all his life, he just recently got kicked out of his current one: Pencey Prep. He has trouble focusing in school and has experienced many traumatic events in his life, like the death of his little brother Allie. Many believe the novel should be banned, but there is an underlying message Holden is trying to communicate. Throughout Holden's journey many feel that there were ban-worthy moments, but the traits he demonstrates are most powerful: compassion, maturity/coming of age and intelligence.
In the novel The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger,Holden the main character tries to take on adult and mature situations but finds himself in reality not getting very far. Holden Caulfield who goes to Pencey has failed four out of five classes and gets the notice that he is being expelled from the school. He leaves the school and goes out and tries to adventure into the real world. Holden takes on many challenges and obstacles throughout the book . Although Holden wants to be independent many people perceive Holden in numerous different ways to his actions and feelings. Faith and Stradlater both perceive Holden as irritating, when in reality he tries to distract himself from being depressed. For example when Holden was in the phone
The Catcher in the Rye is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who doesn’t exactly fit in with his society. We know he doesn’t fit it because in the first scene Holden decides not to attend his school’s football game, which most people attend. Holden is a very opinionated person who criticizes most things. Hold did not belong in the 1940’s idea of a perfect society. But, would Holden Caulfield fit in to today’s society? Holden Caulfield would be more critical of today’s society. Holden would have many more prejudices today, but would still be accepted into today’s society because of a diversified society from the 1950’s to the 2010’s.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is an enthralling and captivating novel about a boy and his struggle with life. The teenage boy ,Holden, is in turmoil with school, loneliness, and finding his place in the world. The author J.D. Salinger examines the many sides of behavior and moral dilemma of many characters throughout the novel. The author develops three distinct character types for Holden the confused and struggling teenage boy, Ackley, a peculiar boy without many friends, and Phoebe, a funny and kindhearted young girl.
Holden Caulfield, portrayed in the J.D. Salinger novel Catcher in the Rye as an adolescent struggling to find his own identity, possesses many characteristics that easily link him to the typical teenager living today. The fact that the book was written many years ago clearly exemplifies the timeless nature of this work. Holden's actions are those that any teenager can clearly relate with. The desire for independence, the sexually related encounters, and the questioning of ones religion are issues that almost all teens have had or will have to deal with in their adolescent years. The novel and its main character's experiences can easily be related to and will forever link Holden with every member of society, because everyone in the world was or will be a teen sometime in their life.
In life there comes a time where you think that everyone wants to see you fail and are “phoney”. This particular time happens mostly in the teen stages of life as they are usually trying to find there identities. Holden Caufield, a teen was a high school student at a boy's high school called Pency Prep, which he got kicked out from. He feels as though he had fought the world and lost, everyone is against him, just out there to see him fail. After getting kicked out he journeys out to New york city where he faces some of the toughest times in his life surrounded by “phony” adults that Holden would never want to become.
We see during the novel that Holden wants to be able to protect innocence in the world, however by the end of the story he lets go of that desire. This is a point of growth for Holden. He finds that it is impossible and unnecessary to keep all the innocence in the world. While with Phoebe Holden says, “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye...I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff...That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye” (173). In this moment Holden wants to be able to preserve all the youth and innocence in the world. He doesn’t accept that kids have to grow and change and that they can’t stay innocent forever. Later on in the story when Holden is with Phoebe at a carousel again he thinks, “The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the golden ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them.” At the end of the novel Holden realizes and comes to terms with the fact that kids grow and lose their innocence. He moves from his want to be the “catcher in the rye” to...
Some people feel all alone in this world, with no direction to follow but their empty loneliness. The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger, follows a sixteen-year-old boy, Holden Caulfield, who despises society and calls everyone a “phony.” Holden can be seen as a delinquent who smokes tobacco, drinks alcohol, and gets expelled from a prestigious boarding school. This coming-of-age book follows the themes of isolation, innocence, and corrupted maturity which is influenced from the author's life and modernism, and is shown through the setting, symbolism, and diction.
While at Pheobe’s school to give her a note, Holden sees a sign of adult immaturity that shocks him. "Somebody’d written "Fuck you" on the wall.” (221) This angers Holden in a way that seems quite uncharacteristic for him because “I thought how Pheobe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what the hell it meant, then finally some dirty kid would tell them-all cockeyed, naturally-what it meant, and how they’d all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days.” This reaction from Holden displays how horrified he is by adults and their acts of immaturity which are quite different than childhood immaturity. This encounter displays a darker more adult issue that Holden thinks children should not be exposed to. It also exhibits his obsession with preserving the innocence of his sister and her peers. This is an example of Holden trying to save his sister from “the
Many teens learn lessons the hard way during their childhood. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a 16-year-old boy named Holden, wandering the streets of New York City meeting new people and reconnecting with others. The novel contains symbols, irony, and imagery that contributes to the overall theme on how growing up is a part of life.
At the beginning of his story, Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School. Having been expelled for failing four out of his five classes, Holden leaves school and spends 72 hours in New York City before returning home. There, Holden encounters new ideas, people, and experiences. Holden's psychological battle within himself serves as the tool that uncovers the coming-of-age novel's underlying themes of teen angst, depression, and the disingenuous nature of society. The novel tackles issues of blatant profanity, teenage sex, and other erratic behavior.
...one of us faces the struggles of growing up. We can either complain and rant and blame everyone else, or we can stay positive and try our best to rise above the challenges. Holden showed me how we can keep grumbling and keep whining, but that is not going to make the situation better. We should not let our hardships and challenges defeat us, but rather we should conquer our challenges. It is so much better if we stay positive in facing our challenges than if we just complain and whine about our hardships. Holden, despite his bitterness, is a character that has surprisingly inspired me to be more positive in facing my life’s challenges. After reading this novel, I really hope that the ‘Holdens’ of today will realize that being pessimistic and isolated is not cool; I hope they will be able to grow up someday and face their challenges in a more hopeful, positive way;