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Catcher In The Rye Book Report

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The story is about a junior in high school named Holden Cauldfield. Holden starts to narrate the story the day he was expelled from boarding school Pencey. Before he left he got a letter from his old professor who invited him over before he leaves. Holden went to see him even though he knew that all that was waiting for him was a lecture about getting ax in his classes and not caring about his future. And that was exactly what he got along with getting extremely annoyed because he was not exactly fond of old sick people. He finally got back to his dorm room but he was still pretty annoyed. He hated everything - the school, the classes even his roommates. He thought that Pencey was full of snotty stupid people. He started reading a book when …show more content…

Holden hesitated but said yes. Few minutes after he got to his room someone knocked on the door. It was the girl. Her name was Sunny. It was obvious that she just wanted to get it over with, take her money and leave but Holden wanted to talk. After a while he told her that she was really nice but that he recently got a surgery and that he wasn´t feeling well enough to do it. He gave her the 5 bucks he promised to Maurice but she started arguing with him that it was supposed to be 10. Eventually she left but after a while he heard a knock on the door again. It was Sunny accompanied with Maurice who demanded the additional 5 bucks. They took the money and Maurice punched him in the face as he was leaving. Holden was pretty depressed at this point and he decided to call Sally Hayes and go on a date with her. He thought she was beautiful, but then again snotty and stupid. He took her to see a play because she loved theather even though he contempted with the play, actors and the plot. Later they went to the park and they sat in a bar and they were talking and he was trying to convince her to run away with him, to Vermont or New Hampshire and to start a new life with him, away from everyone and everything he

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Holden even hired a prostitute but did not encounter any sexual intercourse. After this, Holden went on a date with a female named Sally Hayes. The date did not go well. After the date, Holden returned to his home where he snuck in to talk to his sister but left before his parents knew he was in the house. He later then visited his former teacher, Mr. Antolini.

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Holden likes Jane and he starts to become a better person around her and instead of having the idea of killing himself than he should have started to think of Jane but he lets the best of him. Holden turns out to be too shy for Jane and she tends to push him away for

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Holden is lonely and this is very noticeable throughout his stay at the hotel. He was desperation to talk to someone so had thoughts of calling his little sister (Phoebe). “ I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all.” Holden announces his needs to be intoxicated by begging the waiter for alcohol in the Lavender at the hotel.

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Holden says that getting kicked out of school again is no big deal as it is the fourth time, but he uses this as a defense mechanism to downplay his failure. 3. The significance in Holden’s remark about Mrs. Spencer opening the door herself is that it

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Holden originally attended Pencey Prep but could never connect with the people around him. He is always criticizing or fighting with others, which lead him to leave Pencey without telling anyone. Holden heads to NYC where he faces many challenges with others and himself, emotionally and physically. Holden finds himself in his hotel room with a prostitute and feels extremely uncomfortable with what he is doing so he pays her and sends her off. The next day he plans a date with Sally Hayes, an old girlfriend, to see a play where he calls her “a pain in the ass” and laughs.

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This causes Holden to pack his bags in the middle of the night and leave. He got on a train to New York, and stayed in a hotel for a while. While he was in New York, he met up with his younger sister, Phoebe. While Holden was in New York, he tried to get with a lot of women-all of his attempts failed. Holden is having a very difficult

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After Sunny gets the five dollars and Maurice gives Holden a good punch to the stomach, they leave the room. Holden is furious about the events prior and depicts how he would get his revenge on Maurice. Lastly as Holden lies in bed he loses the little faith he had in the world and thinks of suicide. Throughout this passage, Holden experiences the fact that the real

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He flees to his suitemate Ackley for comfort and assurance, but he receives the opposite. After Stradlater leaves the room, Holden slips into Ackley’s room to see if he will play a game with him. Ackley denies this request, but Holden still stays. He continues talking to Ackley, who claims he cannot be awake at the hour because he has church the next day, and asks if he can spend the night. Both of the boys know that Ackley’s roommate will be gone all weekend and the bed will be empty, but Ackley refuses to let Holden stay the night.

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People do not expect the death of a loved one to occur at such a young age, and so abruptly like Allie 's death. The smashing of the windows shows the huge impact that he had on Holden, and how upset he was that he no longer had his brother by his side. Holden was uncertain in how to deal with this upsetting change in his life, resulted in aggressive behavior. Holden was also exposed to another traumatic event in his life during his time at Pencey. After being introduced to one of Holden 's classmates Castle he states, ¨Finally, what he did, instead of

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Jessica Casimiro October 30, 2015 English 3/PayLea Short Story Essay Patrick Rothfuss once claimed, “The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” The novel Catcher in the Rye focuses on Holden Caulfield, an angst-ridden teen conflicted between remaining in a state of prolonged innocence or transitioning into the world of adulthood, thus facing the corruption and phoniness that it correlates with. Through Holden’s dynamic character, J.D Salinger depicts how innocence is slowly lost when exposed to adulthood. Reluctant to the idea of growing up, Holden strives to protect the innocence of himself and the ones’ around him. Holden reminisces about the Natural Museum of History, a place he enjoyed going

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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger uses the main character Holden Caulfield to portray the loss of innocence. Holden is a teenage boy who struggles with adulthood and the innocence of being a child. Through Holden's experiences, Salinger shows that the loss of innocence can be painful and difficult, but it is also necessary for personal growth and maturity. Holden's journey towards loss of innocence is shown by several events, such as his expulsion from Pencey Prep School and his roams in New York City. Holden's expulsion from Pencey is a turning point in the novel, as it marks the beginning of his realization that he can no longer hold on to the innocence of childhood.

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In particular, an instance of Holden’s willingness to die for a noble cause rather than living is his encounter at the Edmont Hotel with Maurice and Sunny, the prostitute who he doesn’t even have sex with. When Holden is confronted by the duo to steal five dollars from him, he speaks out and refuses to pay. His efforts were to no avail though, as he not only gets punched but also his money taken away from him. After pretending to be shot, he finally reveals what he felt like doing, which “…was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window.”

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Holden begins trying to be older than he actually is, still scared to lose innocence he grasps so hard to be a different person. He is a teenage boy in a grown up’s world. Trying to be an adult isn 't as easy as it seems and Holden is starting to learn that. “She had a terrifically nice smile. She really did.

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