Year in and year out, millions of school aged kids across America read through their school's required reading list with the anticipation of agonizing essays and treacherous tests. ... The issue that is most commonly dealt with adolescents that is addressed in The Catcher in the Rye is the loss of innocence. ... An example of Holden's loss of innocence creating dilemmas for him was when he was thinking about sex and how he almost lost his virginity. ... Salinger's straightforward address on the issue of losing innocence eases the fear of openly talking about the touchy issue be...

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• Grade Level: High School

After he is taken away from his home he is stripped of this innocence , his faith in his family died and he no longer believed in his religion like he did before he went to the camps. ... Although at some point in life most people lose their innocence, the way and age in which Elie did was horrible and made him into the "corpse" he has now become. ... The lost of faith in these three things, innocence, family and God, all contribute to the emotional death of Elie at the end of the book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He sees a boy from Baltimore about his age staring at him. ... It was a shame that someone at his tender age of eight had to encounter such discrimination. The boy's innocence and naive ness is what makes readers feel sorry for him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Around the age of 12 it became a constant state of competition, anger, hatred, self-doubt. ... I learned very valuable lessons at a very young age. ... I found myself falling in love with dance the way I had fallen for the innocence of baseball. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Set in the 1970s, Lolita portrays the love of a middle-aged man, Mr. ... Humbert falls in love with an innocent girl who is about his age. ... Humbert's perception of beauty did not mature with the rest of him; he viewed beauty as innocence. ...

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Moreover, Holden also talks a lot about how much her age intrigued him. ... It is almost as if Holden wants to protect Jane's innocence, because it is where he feels the most comfortable with her. ... This also reveals how Holden is not only bad at making connections with people his age, but with adults as well, as he admits, "I'm not crazy about talking to girls' mothers on the phone,". ... Because he is older, he feels this sense of maturity and mattering, things that he never feels when he is around people his age or older. ... In contrast, Holden has severe issues ...

• Word Count: 1900
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• Grade Level: High School

Wendy Duncan, an Australian bushfire survivor, whose home was destroyed, recounted her experience in The Age's 'A place of enchantment and resilience changed forever'. ... Finding 'innocence' in his altered reality, he calls it 'never-never land', a place where he can find 'joyagain', and his imagination ignited. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Catcher in the Rye, An Analysis of Holden Caulfield From the beginning of the story, it J.D. Salinger made it clear that the problems that were troubling Holden were deeper that issues of typical teen angst. Holden was self-destructive and emotionally unstable. The death of his younger broth...

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• Grade Level: High School

They try to blame other people for their situations to maintain their innocence. ... Overall the symptoms in both psychopaths and sociopaths seem to come out around the ages thirteen through fifteen. ...

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Both are abandoned by their creators at a young age; Frankenstein is left without his mother after her death, the creature is rejected by Frankenstein. ... The creature's display of care and compassion for the cottagers is more humane than most humans are; he retains the innocence and naive characteristics of a child. ...

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Both are abandoned by their creators at a young age; Frankenstein is left without his mother after her death, the creature is rejected by Frankenstein's abandonment. ... The creature's display of care and compassion for the cottagers is more humane than most humans are; he retains the innocence and naive characteristics of a child. ...

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