Sal On The Road

In the essays Passengers by Ian Frazier, the Author paints the Main Character Salvatore Siano but known as Sal to be a well liked, goofy, kind and caring man. In passengers, On September 11, 2001, “Sal was driving a No. 66 bus that began its run at eight-twenty-five. As he headed for the city on Route 3” picking up passengers along the way and dropping them off at their normal stops. While driving down the road he saw smoke and fire coming from buildings. Sal turns around and drops everyone off at the stops they were picked up from and refunded them.

He knows that Sally is not the right girl for him and he does not even like her, yet his loneliness has caused him pain and depression, while his peers are out with their girlfriends or boyfriends and have even thought about getting married. When Sally arrives it is clear that Holden’s loneliness has once again turned him into the phony he reviles when he says, “The funny part is, I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her. I’m crazy. I didn’t even like her much, and yet all of a sudden I felt like I was in love with her and wanted to marry her” (124). It is a fault in society that people feel they should start a relationship just to start a relationship, and Salinger shows how Holden is a victim of this, by making him go on a date with Sally, even though he likes someone

Salinger highlights the struggle after a loved one’s death through the protagonist, Holden, who accounts the memories of his brother Allie: “He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table that he just about fell off his chair. I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them” (Salinger 38). At an adolescent age, Holden had to go through the tragedy of his brother's death, where he demonstrated strange behavior due to his emotional instability. Holden had ruined his friendship with Stradlater, who’d asked Holden to write him an English prompt where Holden wrote about Allie’s glove, but had disappointed Stradlater, thus Holden tore the paper. Holden became furious due to the connection Holden had with his brother, he portrayed the misunderstanding that society and adolescents have of one another after a

How does Salinger evoke mood and/or portray themes in this extract? Losing your loved ones is never easy. You grieve and you feel like life is never going to move on without them, but it does. On page 40 of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, through making use of change in diction and in tone, J.D Salinger evokes sympathy and changes in mood. Here, the reader discovers that Holden had a younger brother, Allie, who passed away.

Even after Sal moves away, Phoebe and Ben continue to write and talk to Sal. On page 265, “Ben and Phoebe write to me all the time. Ben sent me a valentine in the middle of October that said, Roses are red Dirt is brown, please be my valentine, or else I’ll frown. She will have some friends to talk to and be able to express how she's feeling. Without her friends, life would be tough for Sal.

As the novel progresses, we realize that ironically Holden's alienation becomes the source of most of his pain throughout the book. Although he never realizes the fact that his pain is being derived from his isolation and lack of human interaction, Salinger places clues in the book that tell us that it is so. With the introduction of Sally Hayes, Salinger is able to craft a relationship that effectively depicts the conflict in Holden. It is loneliness that initially propels Holden into a date with Sally. However, during the date Holden's need for isolation returns, he "didn't even know why" he "started all that stuff with her. The truth is" he "probably wouldn't have taken her even if she wanted to go." Because Sally is unable to recognize the feelings on the "phoniness" of school that he projects, he becomes frustrated and uses a rampaging monologue to upset her and drive her away. The only time in the

immersed in what he is doing with Robert ” I couldn’t stop. “(109). The wife even

As the story progressed, the married man imagines more about his wife, as he was telling Wyatt “I could see my wife in 1960 in the group of high-schoolers she must have had. My jealousy went out

Eber admits to being nervous about going home because he's not going to be on probation and doesn't know if he's going to be able to make a commitment to change. He has a desire to change, but is wondering if he'll actually be able to commitment. Eber's girlfriend and parents don't appreciate him using drugs. Eber's father has attempted to help Eber by telling him to only drink

He stared at the ceiling. ‘We’ve given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward-secrecy, disobedience?’” (Bradbury 5). The quote suggest that George is starting to see that his children are not the angels that he thought they were.

Salinger displays that one’s happiness can be compromised due to the actions of your own self. Holden Caulfield lacked communication and saw everything as “phoney” or “depressing” which deselected happiness for him. Holden getting kicked out of school is one example; his lack of communication with the teachers and others put in him a miserable setting. Which resulted him in getting kicked out. Another example is when he went on his date with Sally Hayes. Everything was going swell until Holden started to speak about how he felt. Which flattened the setting of the date as Holden portrays himself “C’mon, lets get outa here,” I said. “You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.” Boy, did she hit the ceiling when I said

I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with a miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead" (Kerouac 1). Thus begins Sal's life on the road and his search for a more meaningful, authentic life. He has failed to find authenticity in mainstream society but hopes to find it on society's fringes. In the novel, Sal's search for authenticity begins and ends with his association with Dean Moriarty. His highly charged friendship with Dean Moriarty continues throughout the novel but finally ends with a denouement in Mexico City. In his frenetic search for authenticity, Sal encounters a continuous progression of marginalized people that include not only Dean's friends and sexual partners but also hobos, migratory farm workers and black jazz musicians. Sal feels that all these people have authenticity because they all value the immediate over the traditional expectations of mainstream society. Kerouac defines the intense moment or "It" as the culmination of the immediate. "It" is well illustrated when Sal and Dean, together with a group of their Beat friends, go to a wild party at the house of Rollo Greb on Long Island, and Dean enthuses about Rollo saying, "if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it." "Get what?" "It! It! I'll tell you - now no time, we have no time now" (127). Later in

Gradually, Sal becomes more and more dependent on Dean. He shapes his morals and values upon those of Dean, letting his life be controlled by the decisions that Dean makes, and even refusing to allow himself thoughts that contradict Dean’s. The impact Dean has on Sal’s identity is clearly illustrated in Chapter Seven, when, after Sal and Dean have been staying with their friend ‘Old Bull Lee’, Dean is ready to leave so Sal takes off with him despite his own desire to stay. He has reached a point where he is unable to make his own decisions, and must blindly follow Dean. His dependence on Dean has isolated him from his own feelings and thoughts, and he has compromised his own independence and power to make decisions.

Salamano is crying because he had lost his dog, therefore indicating that he does care about his dog, but he just doesn’t respect it. This contrasts with the way Meursault lives his life since he has a carefree one, and no one seems

In the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger brings up the motif of loneliness and depression which Holden reveals to the reader while at Pencey Prep. For example while writing a essay for Stradlater, he reflects on how after Allie, Holden's brother died, Holden "slept in the garage, the night he died and [he] broke all the god damn window." (39). This reaction to inflict pain on himself is evidence that the loss triggered severe emotional disturbances. Holden isolates himself after a tragic event proving Allie's death is the cause for his loneliness. Also, while alone in his dorm at Pencey writing a composition for Stradlater his roommate, Holden " couldn't think of a room or a house to describe… [he] wrote about [his] brother Allie's