Raise High the Roof Beam

J.D. Salinger was an author that inspired many authors and peoples. Some of the people he tried to inspire did terrible things and some did things that were awe-inspiring. However, despite creating hope and a voice for a generation J.D. Salinger did not like to stay in the spotlight and preferred a more reclusive lifestyle. In order to understand J.D. Salinger’s seclusive and private life one needs to see his life’s work and how they reflect his own views and feeling in the world. To help see Salinger 's view on the world, one must first see his comparisons to the character that he created. Salinger can be comparable to one of the many characters he created Holden Caulfield from his novel the Catcher in the Rye for , like Holden, Salinger was raised in an upscale Manhattan apartment. Although Salinger attended New York public school, he did enrolling at the exclusive McBurney School and just like Holden, Salinger wasn’t an interested, thought or academically exceptional student. That also wasn’t the first school that Salinger was sent to because of his poor performance at McBurney he was subsequently sent off to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Years later Salinger join WWII, with most stories are post-WWII America and served until the end of World War II. During this time Salinger served as an interrogator in the Counter-Intelligence Corps and a participant in the D-Day offensive. Many fans and critics alike say that this is what drew Salinger to go in his seclusive and…

The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey are two novels written by J.D. Salinger. While the books explore different ideas, there are several common themes that run throughout the two novels. The themes of innocence, sadness, mortality, isolation, education, and dissatisfaction are all similar in Franny and Zooey and The Catcher in the Rye. The main character in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield. Holden is a seventeen-year-old boy…

he was drafted into World War II which scarred him but also inspired his writing ("J.D. Salinger"). After the war he returned back to New York and continued writing. His work was published in The New Yorker, a favorite magazine of Salinger’s. He kept writing and in 1951 The Catcher in The Rye was finally published ("J.D. Salinger"). This book was the biggest part of his career and helped established his legacy as an influential and talented American writer. He only published a few more works…

pondered, to describing the rooms he walked into, nothing in the book was bland. Another thing I noticed about J. D. Salinger’s writing style is that it was very unorthodox. From his word choice, to how Holden talked, everything was different from books I have read in the past. Even though this book was much shorter than most other books I have read, I learned the most about a this time period than I ever had, getting a view into the culture and everyday lives of the people of the 1950s. I would…

In Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Smith focuses on Francie Nolan, a young child suffering the hardships of poverty in the streets of Brooklyn. In the exposition, Francie lives with her mother, Katie, brother, Neeley, and father, Johnny, in a small tenement. Johnny earns money for the family waiting tables and singing at restaurants, but he is an alcoholic, which makes it difficult to provide a steady income. Katie is forced to work as a janitor to pay off rent, while the children…

Franny and Zooey Essay #4 Theological instruction is evident in both J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Jorge Luis Borge’s “The Gospel According to Mark.” Theological instruction is commonly passed down through generations. “It also occurred to [Espinosa] that the generations of men, throughout recorded time, have always told and retold two stories – that of a lost ship which searches the Mediterranean seas for a dearly loved island, and that of a god who is crucified on Golgotha” (Borges…

Nick and Franny’s DC Spy Tour Nick and Franny have been looking forward to their visit for some months. Franny has had a very hard year physically including her final surgery which has left her with limit vision in her left eye. This has affected her vision and balance. Nick is using this trip to help Franny relax from the year of surgeries and doctors. He has a developed a Spy Tour of DC to help during her recovery. They both share a love of David Baldacci novels and this visit is the…

I was enrolled in preschool on time and education has always been the first priority in my family, so my mother and father have tried to put my siblings and I in the best schools as possible. Like Francie my mother used to read to me and when I learned to read on my own we would read together until we fell asleep. Unlike back in the days not many children drop out of school because it is hard to get any job in this economy without a high school degree let alone a college degree. In 2015 18…

But, Spain didn’t give any attention to that situation since they were busy in a war with France. It became difficult at the Missions because no one was able to send to the Missions and to pay for the soldiers. It only grew harder on the Mission without money to buy land to grow crops and raise livestock. As the new residents made room for themselves they asked Spain’s government to do two things: The first one was to make the Missions non-religious and to make the neophytes Spanish citizens. A…

configuration of their key elements: the entry, the fireplace, absence of traditional ornaments, ceilings, solid and glazed walls, openings to adjacent interior and exterior spaces, and terraces. This configuration was developed to a state called “canonical” by Hildebrand, once it was repeated on the majority of his residential projects for the rest of his life (Hildebrand, The Wright Space,19). These homes were called Prairie style after a Wright’s article titled “A Home in a Prairie Town”,…