Examples Of Dialectical Journal For The Catcher In The Rye '

Therefore, his rebellion both academically and socially in the schools he attends display his resistance to grow up. These behaviors he shows, are psychological effects he develops due to Allie’s death, hence creating a negative impact on his life. In addition to Allie’s death causing Holden to act out, it also seems to cause neglection in Holden’s life. Just like Holden, it seems his mother has not gotten over

Theme: Individuality 1. “... 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—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 like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they’re only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something” (3). The narrator, Holden Caulfield, describes an aspect of his character through this confession. Obviously, he is interested in girls and desires them at all times. During the 1950s when this novel was published, having such desires would not have been approved of by the parents of the time due to the increasing social pressures of society. A majority of these adults would have considered Caulfield a terrible role model and would not have wanted the youth to read about him wanting to look at girls.

While doing Stradlater’s assignment, Holden mentions his younger brother, Allie. Recalling Allie and his baseball mitt, Holden said, “he’s dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You’d have liked him” (Salinger 49). Holden showed a contrast and contradiction with this quote.

Another example of that is when he asks Sally to go with him and get married and live somewhere else. That also shows that the book is not about Holden learning to deal with his grief and loss because none of that stuff has to do with Allie and Holden would probably do at least some things related to Allie if the book was about dealing with grief and

This is representative of how Holden is currently still carrying his grief of Allie’s death, manifesting itself in his lack of motivation in school while he is maturing to become an adult. This is important considering Holden is currently at an area where he is neither an adult nor child, but

In The Catcher in The Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden is portrayed at a curious struggling teenager. Holden starts a conversation with a New York cab driver about the fish and the duck in central park. He asks specifically about what do they do during the winter. This thought shows how he is trying to find answers concerning his own life and growing up.

Then they saw the condition the pheasants were in, as the author puts it, "They looked like unborn birds glazed in egg whites.” Which made the boys believe that the pheasants were innocent and that they could not do such a thing to something as fragile. When they saw the pheasants condition they decided to give the pheasant their coats, “He covered two of the crouching pheasants with his coat, rounding the back of it over them like a shell.” The pheasants were too fragile to hurt them, and they thought that they couldn’t do

The Connotation Of Allie’s mitt To The Catcher In The Rye Salinger uses the symbol of Allie's mitt to express the theme of innocence as demonstrated in a major symbol, big factor in Catcher in The Rye, and overall connection to the theme of the book. First of all, Allies mitt's represents pure innocence and no other symbol in the book represents innocence as good as the mitt does. The mit represents Allies life to us as a innocent and young life. “He got leukemia and died when we we’re up in Maine, on July 18, 1946.”

Change Can Be Good As one grows up they may experience dramatic changes in their life that they wish had never occurred. In The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger, the main Character Holden Caulfield, goes through loss as his life begins to change right in front of him. His brother Allie who Holden was very close with, passes away, and his family and friends are all moving forward with their lives.

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is considered a coming of age novel. Throughout the novel, Holden, a confused teenage boy, matures and understands more about himself. Salinger conveys Holden’s increasing levels of maturity by using a variety of symbols. The ducks in central park, the red hunting hat, and the carousel ring symbolize the the development of Holden’s adulthood.

Instead of seeing pulchritude, Holden started to view the world as an atrocious place, populated by phonies who do not understand him. At times, he averts social contact as a result of depression. Holden struggles to cope with Allie’s death as he alienates himself from society and suffers from loneliness. Holden decides to sequester himself to evade relationships that will result in awkwardness, rejection, or the pain he felt when Allie died. By alienating himself, Holden believes he is safe from loss.

Allie is a special person to Holden because of his intelligence and kindness, When Holden accepted the favor of writing Stradlater’s composition, Holden has also accepted an obstacle in his time during his stay in Pencey Prep. The topic of the composition is to describe a room or a house; however, describing something meaningful only leads to the thoughts of Allie because he “couldn’t think of a room or a house or anything to describe the way Stradlater said he had to have.” (33). Furthermore, Holden is so passionate about Allie that he has provided background story of Allie’s baseball mitt, the poems written in green ink, his intelligence, his kindness, and his red hair. However, Stradlater “was really furious” and mentions Holden “flunking the hell out of here,” (36) because the composition is supposed to be related to the descriptions of a room or a house, but in response, Holden “pulled [the composition] right out of [Stradlater’s] goddam hand.

  "You looked could and upset. I figured that I could give you my extra jacket since my mom made me bring two. I also thought that I could give you some company. Why are you all alone out

I have a necklace. One that means the world to me. It’s rare for me to leave the house without it on. It has meaning to me. It belonged to someone important to me until she passed it down to me.