Similarities Between Catcher In The Rye And The Beast Of The Southern Wild

Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist in J.D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye, illustrates the endless struggle of becoming an adult, without actually growing up. Psychoanalytical theory provides a closer lense into the character development of sixteen year Holden Caulfield, a six foot two grey haired child who’s afraid to grow up and face the problems of an inevitable reality. There’s many factors that contribute to Holden’s perplex personality including the absence of his parents, the death of his younger brother and the fact that he has to cope all this while simultaneously migrating from school to school . The ramifications of living under such

Holden's past has caused him to be dealing with a lot on his plate. He shows very vibrant signs of having PTSD following the death of his dearly loved brother Allie. When Allie passed away, Holden never got closure, which deeply impacted him. The night of Allie's death, Holden begins to show signs of distress and takes it out in a violent way. “I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it.

Holden is reluctant to enter adulthood because he cherishes his childhood. Through the course of the book, Holden unknowingly symbolizes the ducks in the Central park pond as the two worlds, adulthood and childhood. Holden remarks, “I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something,” he continues, “Or if they just flew away” (13). Holden is unsure whether or not to enter adulthood. When Holden is writing the essay for Ackley and chooses the topic of his death brother, Allie, Holden describes his fondness of Allie: “God, he was a nice kid though” (38). Holden treasures his childhood since his brother was part of it. Holden does not want to enter adulthood because he reminisces his childhood.

Holden, unlike most people his age, can already see the phoniness and corruptness of the adult world, causing him to have trouble mentally. At a young age, he feels the responsibility of protecting others from ever having to find out and ending up like him, corrupt. Along the way, he finds out that this task he has taken on is not necessarily possible because everyone is susceptible to their own loss of innocence. This is true for many people because they feel the need to protect the youth from the world they already know so well. The reality of the situation is that life will take its own course and no one can necessarily protect anyone from everything.

Growing up can be scary for anyone. Some kids handle it better than others. Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D salinger’s book The Catcher in the Rye has a difficult time handling responsibilities and adult situations. Holden is afraid to grow up because he does not want to abandon his childish ways and start handling responsibilities as an adult. He is also a troubled 16 year old kid who tries to escape his problems instead of solving them.

in families, there are clashes and rivalry between members–most provoked by the values of society– in strife to be the perfect family. In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist, comes from a high socioeconomic family with an unhealable wound that Holden’s dead brother, Allie Caulfield causes. In order to look acceptable in society, the parents send Holden away to different schools instead of healing together as a family. In Krakauer’s Into the wild, Chris Mccandless father, Walt Mccandless’s betrayal and infidelity is the root his family’s unhealable wound. They try to cover as much as they can, to be adequate in society. In both boy’s stories, they distrust society and seek a purpose to their lives after traumatic events but,

Holden Caulfield encounters himself facing issues of acceptance of death, growing up, and parental neglecting that prevents him from completely understanding why it is that he is severely depressed. One of the hardships Holden must cope with is his inability to come to terms with death, of his younger brother, Allie. We often discover

As grief consumed Holden since, he never could get over his brother’s death. He says, “I don’t care if it’s a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse”(Salinger 7). Holden didn’t get any sort of goodbye from Allie because of his untimely passing. He was full of rage and hurt his hand which put him in the hospital, missing Allie’s funeral. Holden refusing to become an adult and desperately trying to cling to his younger self is a sign of his past experience with change. When Allie left without a goodbye, it changed Holden’s perception of the world around

Therefore, Holden maintains a lack of responsibility through the duration of the book and takes pleasure in attempting to hinder the road to maturation. As Holden Caulfield’s state of mind becomes more coherent, he has an apparent disconnection from the world and reality. Holden’s vision of being the “Catcher in the Rye” reflects upon his idea of innocence to protect his own and every child’s youthful

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy, transitions from childhood to adulthood. The death of Holden’s little brother signifies the beginning his loss of innocence and growth of maturity. As he enters adulthood, Holden views society differently from his peers by characterizing most of his peers and adults he meets as “phonies.” Thus, Holden takes the impossible challenge of preserving the innocence in children because he wants to prevent children from experiencing the corruption in society. The Catcher In The Rye embodies Holden’s struggle to preserve the innocence of children and reveals the inevitability of and the necessity of encountering the harsh realities of life.

Holden Caulfield is a 16- year-old junior who doesn’t want to grow up. When introduced at first, Holden appears to be a normals boy. He behaves like a normal teenager and thinks of girls often, especially his friend Jane. However, it soons becomes clear that he isn’t a normal teenager. Even though Holden has just a few friends, Stradlater and Ackley, it is clear that he isn’t able to

There are certain qualities that define maturity, and they vary from person to person. Throughout the story, Holden Caulfield, the sixteen year old protagonist of “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger is slowly but surely becoming a mature, young boy. He battles through his teenage life because he is caught between two worlds; one of pure bliss and innocence, the other of a mature adult. As he aspires to be “the catcher in the rye”, he wants all children to hold on to their innocence as long as they can because he feels the world is full of “phony” adults. However with the help of some friends and family, he is able to realize that he cannot save all children and that they will eventually have to grow up. Jeannette Walls, the author and main character of the memoir, “A Glass

Holden experiences extreme difficulty accepting his current realities and one of the main factors causing this is the lasting negative impact his brother Allies death had on his life. Firstly, when Holden decides to leave his school, he tells readers , “I don’t care if it’s a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye, but when I leave a place, I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t, you feel even worse” (Salinger, 4). Holden’s need for closure is evident in this quote. When Allie died, it was very unexpected and he was not prepared to let him go, resulting in his denial that his brother is actually

Holden Caulfield is the protagonist in the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. In the book Holden hears a quote “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he want to live humbly for one” (Salinger 188) which he embraces as he matures throughout the story. Holden’s opinions of childhood and adulthood change as he grows through experience.

One of the hardships Holden must cope with is his inability to come to terms with death, in particular that of his younger brother, Allie. Holden seems to have experienced a