Good Will in the Rye
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Physiological traumas at small ages, affect children’s future life and their decisions in life in a negative way. Both in the book Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger and the movie Good Will Hunting, there are two young men and their common point is they both had traumas in their childhood. They have an important thing in common and that is their fitting problems in the community. However there are many differences between Holden Caulfield and Will Hunting too, because of their environmental differences and it affects their way of thinking and judging people.
Holden Caulfield and Will Hunting are both against the usual, formal system of education or they are just against schools. In Catcher in the Rye,
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Will’s decisions are a bit immature because he didn’t have much experience about life and using his brain for significant things. Will’s therapist says, “So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book ever written... Michelangelo? ” (47.01) and that’s because Will’s thoughts are just about the books he read. And he doesn’t think and make decisions like an adult. Even his best friend knows that he is a genius and wants him to work for something significant, Will doesn’t want to use his intelligence for important things he just wants to keep having fun with his friends. That shows Holden and Will’s make their decisions poorly and without thinking.
To sum up Will and Holden have many things in common, such as their ideas against schools, however because they have different perspectives and lives their decisions and believes through the life are different. The reason they have many things in common that they both have some childhood traumas and it affected them in a similar way. Such as mis fitting in the community and making poor decisions. To prevent children ruin their own lives, government and parents should always support the children that are having
When a child experiences trauma, it stays with them for the rest of their life. When a child experiences abuse, one of the highest forms of trauma, they can do little to stop it from affecting everything they do. Tobias Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, Illustrates this. While it can be said that Rosemary, the mother of Jack, was in many ways responsible for his life, she herself can not solely be blamed. The trauma and abuse she experienced as a child contributed greatly to her choices, and her son’s life. This shows that adversity in Rosemary’s life lead to her not being able to act normally, and this caused the life of her son.
The irony of Holden detesting phoniness and adulthood is that he acts so much like an adult with his curiosity and experience with alcohol and sex that he misses his own opposition. Holden hates the responsibility, morality, and accountability of being an adult and embraces childhood. This contradicts everything that he desires and to want to take part in. This causes his own corruption and enables a failure to relate to himself.
In the book, “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden Caulfield has many conflicts and life lessons. Throughout the story the author, J.D. Salinger, creates events that make the main character realize that in life people change and grow. The message behind the story is let children grab the “gold ring” and you can’t always be the catcher in the rye. All of the things that make Holden who he is have many resemblances to the life of the author, J.D. Salinger.
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 is quite skilled at citing exactly what is wrong with other people. However he never acknowledges his own faults. He was sure the entire world was out of step with him. As Alan Stewart explains, ?Holden seemed to divide the world into two groups. He was in one group, along with a few other people such as his little sister, Phoebe, and
Based on a true story, the movie Antwone Fisher starts by going through his adulthood suffering from childhood trauma. Antwone Fisher was born in Cleveland Ohio. From the day he was born he was unwanted. He was born in a prison institution, to a single mother. His father was killed by another girlfriend just two months before his birth. His mother showed little to no interest in him, and searches for foster homes for him to live in. He is sent to live with Mrs. Tate family in Glenville, Ohio, and that’s where the nightmare of an upbringing begins filled with constant abuse. Antwone Fisher in my point of view points out realization to the whole adulthood how childhood plays a big role towards the older you. Throughout the essay I will explain why I believe Antwone Fisher is Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dyslexia, and childhood trauma through step to-step process of Antwone Fisher abused as a child, sexual, physical, and emotional rollercoaster.
Holden Caulfield is a very, very troubled young boy in a grown up filled world. In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher In The Rye, 16 year old Holden Caulfield is stuck in a rut. He has been expelled from numerous schools, including his current one, Pencey Prep. Holden has been a troubled kid since the death of his older brother, Allie. Allie has played a big role in Holden’s life, and was completely traumatized by his death. Along with those family struggles relating to Allie’s death, Holden has a hard time accepting his adulthood. He wrestles with mental illness and growing up with all of those “phonies”. Even more so, he struggles with the idea of the person he is going to grow into. The environment of The
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,
One of the greatest American Literature writers, J.D. Salinger, was familiar with a rough childhood by experience. He was able to parallel his experiences to the experiences of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in The Catcher in Rye. In this novel, Holden experiences conflicts that most youth are not familiar with. The conflicts in Holden Caulfield’s life are caused by various forces and circumstances.
The Catcher in the Rye and The Things They Carried compare how the two main characters are Isolated and in Exile. Each book the two charters are Isolated and Exiled in different way but in some way also similar. Two young men trying to find a way to be accepted in the adult world is still a mystery to them. The loss friends, family along the way and they can’t seem to find trust in relationships. When you’re young you do not know what is out there in the world. Who would think that growing up would be so hard. My comparisons are about the main characters Holden in “Catcher in the Rye”, and O’Brien in The Things they Carried.
Socio-economics is one of the main differences between Holden Caulfield and Will Hunting. Holden comes from a wealthy family, while Will is from South Boston and works as a Janitor; however, their personalities are very similar. Holden believes that the “game of life” is only a game for the
Holden, once kicked out of school, believes he is mature enough to do adult things and so he pursues them. Ferris on the other hand skips school, indulging in childish behaviour. Withal, each character was constructed in a different time period there is still the
Although there are essentially two Holdens, there are still traits that remain the same. Throughout the story, Holden feels the need to explain and justify himself, as though people don’t believe him. Holden tells the story
In today’s society, many teenagers struggle in their everyday lives due to the fact that they have different qualities than others. The novel, Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is about a young man named Holden Caulfield, who suffers from multiple mental illnesses, causing him to be treated different by others. Due to tragedies he has suffered from in the past, and all that is going on in is present life, Holden can no longer cope and runs away to New York. Christopher Boone, from the novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, also suffers from multiple mental illnesses and has experienced life changing tragedies over the years. For many years Christopher’s father has been
It is said that your experiences during childhood shape whether you belief there is hope for the human race. Both Salinger and Stoppard having faced difficulties in life what with Stoppard’s family having to flee from the Nazi’s when he was only 2 and his father dying a prisoner of war when he was only 4 whilst Salinger had difficulties fitting in in schools,taking measures to conform, such as calling himself Jerry, and having dropped out of multiple schools after being called a ‘mediocre’ student just like his protagonist Holden. These experiences shaped these authors outlook on life and how they wrote. Both Arcadia and The Catcher In The Rye seem to investigate how ‘hellish’ of a place the world really is. They don’t give the world a chance to defend itself, a chance to show the good possibilities it can offer. Instead they focus on death,decay and chaos. The lack of hope in humanity can explain the insanity and the mental breakdown portrayed by the characters.