I'm So Tired

Conrad reaches out to his friend from the hospital, Karen, and goes to the diner with her. Although he was not attracted to her sexually, there was an emotional connection between the two characters. He loves her, so decides to reach out to her after he gets admitted out of the hospital. Conrad made the right decision reaching out to Karen, as well as continuing to talk to her. Unfortunately by the end of the film, Karen commits suicide and Conrad is heartbroken…

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is centered around a young boy who thinks he fully understands the world around him. He begins his journey of finding himself and reaching a point of real maturity throughout the novel. It is clear throughout the novel that Holden’s character is dynamic and shifts from an immature teenager to one who is more accepting of himself and his true limit of his knowledge of the world. Although it is evident that Holden tries to grow up extremely quickly, the…

Every adult has experienced maturation that ended their childhood; for some people it’s early on, while for others it’s later in their life. For Holden Caulfield, maturation and coming of age occurs when he is 16 and he flunks out of his school. Holden Caulfield, protagonist of the story, “The Catcher In The Rye”, written by JD Salinger, experiences maturation and a transition from youth to adolescence. “The Catcher In The Rye” is a story centred around a teenage boy’s perception of the world…

younger siblings get most of the attention when it comes to family. Although Allie passed away from Leukemia when Holden Caulfield was thirteen, he still thinks of Allie daily. He admires how intelligent and joyful Allie was before he became sick and was so devastated when he died that he broke some windows in his garage. Caulfield’s sister, Phoebe, is also intelligent and very mature for her age. Because of this, Caulfield often uses her as a crucial source of comfort. He thought about calling…

his sister is her innocence and he fears a part of her innocence will be taken away if she sees the swear words written on the wall and finds out their meaning. Therefore, Holden rubs the swear words out with his hands so the kids would not see it and wonder what it means. By doing so, Holden attempts to fulfil his role of being the catcher in the rye. However, he later finds a “fuck you” written on another part of the school and this time it is scratched on to the wall of the school and when…

which make up the story come from when he is in a mental institute. During the time of Holden’s deep ponderings he was talking to Phoebe about his desires later in life. Holden described how he wanted to be the “Catcher in the Rye”, telling Phoebe, “I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start…

seeing it later in life. Holden then goes on to say: “If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t erase half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible” (Salinger 222). In the same way, Holden is trying to eliminate all of the bad so the children do not lose their innocence. Then realizing that corruption is everywhere and would be impossible to stop like how the loss of innocence is…

he endured, Holden believes that most people or events he experiences are spurious or mistrustful, and he disassociates himself from them. Since Holden’s brother passed away, he began to feel as though he could not trust others, and therefore lies so…

they’d be married. Holden is so passionate about the idea, until Sally hits him with the cold hard truth. “You can’t just do something like that,’ old Sally said” (Salinger 147). Holden is caught off guard by her reaction, and in return, Sally says, “Because you can’t, that’s all. In the first place, we’re both practically children. And did you ever stop to think what’d you’d do if you didn’t get a job when your money ran out? We’d starve to death. The whole thing’s so fantastic, it isn’t…

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” Italo Calvino. This quote describes how a classic book will always be relatable and relevant. In the coming-of-age fiction novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a mentally unstable young man, named Holden Caulfield, goes on a journey in New York whilst trying to find himself as well as trying to become an adult. The quote by Italo Calvino relates to the novel as conveyed through the themes because they are…