He or she may experience numerous sticky situations and moments of trial, defeat, and self doubt before learning their place in society. In the early s, the feminist movement was only beginning to gain momentum.
Although women gained the right to vote over forty years earlier, the fight for equal rights was far from over. The bay symbolize the adulthood because he learn a lesson that he has nobody to impress and he learn that he should lesson to older people like his mom before he try to do something that he knows is wrong.
The tunnel represent the adolescence because it let jerry knows that he only has one chance to prove to his mom that he cane more mature. Jerry knows that him and his mom has to go back home soon so he tries to impress his.
Throughout the story the boys become more mature and lose their innocence. He may often be viewed as a loner, quiet, and sensitive. He is intelligent and does well academically in school. Charlie battles with three traumatic events that have had a drastic impact on his life; the suicidal death of his only friend in middle school, molestation in his early childhood at the hand of his Aunt Helen, and the accidental death of his Aunt Helen as a child.
Charlie currently experiences flashbacks and. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. Salinger we read about a young man, Holden Caulfield, freshly kicked out of yet another high school and highly opinionated about his views of society. We learn about his views as he walks around New York around Christmas time, not wanting to face his parents so soon after being kicked out of school. Some of Holden's views on society include; phony people are bad, and there needs to be more protection of the innocence in the world, Holden has the right to worry and want change for each of these topics, yet he worries about them in a level that is completely unhealthy.
Holden's views include that phoniness should be eradicated from society. Holden is happy when people don't try to glorify phony people:.
Salinger is an epic novel where our main character Holden Caulfield faces many challenges that challenge him as a young man such as growing up, rebellion, and love. He hates movies because, though not explicitly mentioned, actors act and, therefore, are phonies. However, he has little to no agency in this matter because his body and society are constantly telling him to change. Oskar is afraid to feel better because, in order for him to recover, he has to accept that his father is dead.
Dealing with insincere people and struggling to grow up is something that people have had to deal with for a long time. However, the portrayals of their characters contrast dramatically in almost every way. Because of the dissimilarities in which they handle these uncertainties and the way they interact with their families, this ultimately contributes to how each story ends for them, and we see someone who inadvertently makes steps to….
Holden fears the children, and essentially himself, facing the responsibilities of growing up, causing him to handle certain situations with uneasiness throughout the novel. At this point in the novel, Holden is aware towards his distress of change. He wants everything in his life to stay the same, he wants the children in his life to remain innocent and never enter the phoniness of adulthood, but he later realizes that he cannot control this and everyone will eventually become an….
He is unsure about what his purpose is in life and what the world has to offer him. He is scared to put his trust in someone or something again, and to put his happiness in another family that may be taken away from him again. Ishmael understands how wonderful happiness is, but he also understands how quickly it can be taken away. But he did die. And because Johnny died, Dally died too because he was so heartbroken that he lost everything he loved, and the only thing he loved was….
The only role that Holden envisions for himself in life is being The Catcher in the Rye and catching children before they fall off a cliff and this is symbolic of his wish to save himself and other children from having to grow up one day. However, Holden's view of perfect childhood is as incorrect as his view of the adult world. Acting immature helps Holden hide from all the things that terrify him such as issues ranging from sex, to intimacy, to facing death.
Further, this form of delusional self-protection can only last so long. Holden will grow up, whether he likes it or not. Although Holden acknowledges the impossibility, he still wants to protect all the innocent children from the vulgarity of adulthood. He wants to be the catcher in the rye, catching children before they fall off the cliff into adulthood.
Ponyboy and Sodapop grew up with the gang and adapted to gang life. The mentioned characters went threw a lot of changes threw a short period of time. Like Eden they thought everything was perfect, when Johnny stabbed a soc they lost everything so quickly and the gang fell apart. As has been pointed out by previous respondents, Holden is particularly depressed by the death of his brother Allie from Leukemia when Holden was Holden no doubt finds that depressing.
He also is depressed over the prospect of once more facing his parents and being seen as a failure. Why is Holden so immature? Holden's immaturity, negative mentality, and inability to face reality hold him back from moving into adulthood. Holden's immaturity causes him many problems throughout the story. Although he is physically mature, he acts more like a child.
How is Holden a hypocrite? Holden Caulfield is a hypocrite because he is constantly putting people into boxes, claiming that they are phony; this has caused him to become extremely isolated from others, so he thirsts for intimacy from strangers. How old is Holden Caulfield at the end of the book? What is lying according to Holden? The narrative follows Holden's misadventures as he tries to make sense of his own existence and the adult world around him.
How did Holden change at the end of the book? Holden, the main character, undergoes a huge change that is obvious throughout the novel. Holden goes through a series of unfortunate events as he learns his lessons the hard way.
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