Joan Caulfield

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Throughout J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, main character and narrator Holden Caulfield displays a deep desire for someone to simply hear him out. In his eye, the world is simply a bunch of “phonies” who are, for lack of better words, too self-involved and egocentric to listen to anybody. He may be the only person to ever pay for a prostitute with the mere purpose of having someone to talk to. In his…

smile that could rival Frank Sinatra’s. “He has the best smile Mary.” As I walked up to him, I noticed worry lines permeate his face. His sparkling eyes contained a sense of reverence, most likely for the girl, but also some seriousness. Holden Caulfield appeared to have made some big decision and this was not the way I had first heard about him. ********************************* “What do you like about him James? He sounds lazy and stupid. Your exact opposite! What about him is attractive…

Through the iconic voice of Holden Caulfield, an estranged adolescent, one hears a cry for help emerge from the clouds of depression so effortlessly that nearly everyone, regardless of background, relates. As evident within J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and particularly during chapter 20, Salinger utilizes casual diction, relatable syntax, and a symbolic setting to convey Holden’s great dejection and introspection about death itself. With such a strong rhetorical technique as this,…

Safety Is Overrated “Rash” is a speculative fiction navel written by Pete Hautman. Rash shows how safety isn’t something everyone wants because safe does not mean that you’ll enjoy life to its fullest. Rash tells the story of Bo Marston, a 16-year old high school student who lives in the United Safer States of America in 2074.He is forced to wear protective, padded clothes everywhere and cannot do many of the things we can today . Rash shows what an overprotective government can do and how it…

Ben Mikaelsen's self- realization novel Touching Spirit Bear Is about a boy named Cole. Cole, a 15-year-old, others see as angry and evil, but do not understand Cole is only using his anger in the wrong way. The only people who understand are two men, one named Garvey and the other Edwin. They understand the pain of having anger. Coles banished to a remote island in Alaska because he attacks a boy named Peter sending him to the hospital. Although, this happened Cole changes on the island helping…

Challenged Book Looking for Alaska Persuasive Essay Looking for Alaska is a novel about a teenage boy who decides to go to a prestigious boarding school in hopes of building his sense of self. To his surprise, he is plunged into a whole new life that he had never thought possible to belong to him. He finds himself engulfed in what he’s never thought would be his daily routine of a mild juvenile delinquent, rebelling against rules he’s never thought he’d go against. Looking for Alaska shares…

At the start of Great Expectations Pip Pirrip is an inexperienced child, who is unaware of what is around him. He views the world as a safe place and underestimates the capabilities of the people around him. His curiosity and naivety have prevented him from not yet realizing the different types of people and the dangerous actions the human race is capable of. After being threatened by one of the men who escaped a prison ship, he is still curious as to what prison ships are, as well as the kinds…

Problems of an Over cynicism teenager What’s wrong with Holden Caulfield? The protagonist in the book The Catcher in The Rye A boy with the personality of extremely cynicism. A seventeen years old boy that was been depressed by his brother’s death, which means he is unable to face and accept his brother’s death, this is shown when he sleep in the garage and break all the windows, he lies a lot, he can not open up to anyone which make him a pathological liar, and he’s afraid to…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character Holden often has difficulty connecting and being secure enough to pursue deep relationships with others. His lack of confidence and usage of excuses to avoid communicating with the people in his life make him very insecure. However, he often shows what he wishes he could do in the way he treats objects, particularly a “Little Shirley Beans” record he uses as a representation of his relationship with Phoebe. Although the record is…

short comings act as fuel for many of his mental ramblings, and social interactions. Obsessed with finding “phonies” the main character Holden Caulfield often times causes himself mental anguish with this obsession. Constantly angering himself over the actions of others, actions that may not even affect him in the slightest. One could denote that Holden Caulfield suffers from a condition called Misanthropy “A condition characterized by a need for solitude, and skepticism about the nobility of…