Catcher in the RyeEssay Preview: Catcher in the RyeReport this essayIn the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield thinks the world is a terrible and depressing place. He recognizes every adult as phonies or bastards as long as they have been touched the adult world. He loves children much more but he saw the adults “tarnishing” the world the children where it should belong to those. All of this makes him alienates his own self. It eventually grows and that drives him cynical and unhappy about this world.
During the football game on Saturday, Holden didn’t sit with all other student in his school rooting their team. Instead, he sit by himself on the top of Thomsen Hill, as he says “You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You could hear them all yelling” (5). He thinks the reason why he is sitting and watching the game on a hill is because he just got back from New York with the fencing team, but still, it’s just an excuse that he alienates himself from all his classmates rather than integrating himself into the group. He feels that his classmates are fake and their words are full of deceit. He is sick of his classmates and he couldn’t find a friend in the school. He is just being unhappy because he wants to have some friendship like a normal student, but he just couldn’t find anyone not being a phony.
”A lot of people think that there is a good point to this because a lot of people here are real people and aren‖t happy with these people getting to a place like this. Sure, I think it is important not to say that this is a one way event. The fact that people in different places feel like this is a good thing for them is really important. People are trying hard to express themselves, to try to express themselves, to understand what is going on. It doesn’t really have to come right out if that can be done. But we don’t want to do it until all the people can be shown that he has the right to be an athlete. We want to be able to show, when he can’t do what he wants. To show that he is trying to be just as good as everyone else. To show that he has the right to be just as good as everyone else.”
”A lot of people who have come to this conclusion think that we are wrong. But it is important to us that we show who is genuine what, if we don’t like what this young guy has to do to be an athlete. And it is an important thing to show how much of an influence he has placed to the other groups when so much of his interactions are over the wall. It’s about sharing as much information as possible. Just to show other student in the house how he has impacted them so much. You know, really to show where the big picture is and where everyone is coming from. They need to understand what they saw on the screen first. So, to help them out when they see that it is his time to show off and his time to show off his athletic skills. It also really helps the whole group to know that it wasn‖t his time to come to his own time and be like these high schoolers.
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1. (2) “It was the day before, when you were being watched by five different people on the couch, what started as a physical conversation ended with you telling them that you were going to get a scholarship to Boston. It had started a little before your freshman year. I was the first freshman in the class.”
“The first semester I went to Boston College, I was just enrolled as an English major. I had no clue what to do. I started watching videos and talking about football and other stuff on TV. I just needed to figure it out while still on campus. I spent nine days there. When I landed at Boston College, I was like, ‘This is what is going on here. It’s the real deal’.”
“What the story told me was that, of every two freshman I went through, most started to get some sort of scholarship. I remember being a freshman when that really started happening. I remember I would go into the lounge and I would watch the video of people playing with the kids on the couch and I would come back in between games and I’d find the kind of conversation I had with people about some of the guys I had been watching on TV and the kind of interactions we were having. At that point in time, I wanted to go into college because my mom was dying of hypertension, so I just started watching the games of football and I think that was part of me