We experience the best and worst times in our lives. ... Holden also believes that adulthood crosses the line that separates innocence from experience. ... For example he is taking a step forward to adulthood and experience by indulging in several dates with women, which puts him at risk with the possibility of a sexual intercourse. ... Experience served has an obstacle for Holden. ... When Holden has trouble crossing the road, it symbolizes the struggle he is going through between adulthood and childhood, innocence and experience. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Salinger uses Holden's rebellious experiences to link all teenagers in the 1950's and the 1960's together. ... His story resonates within the teenage community because he reveals likely challenges teens endure while bridging the gap between adolescence and adulthood. ... Hate instills in the minds of Moody and Holden; both experience death and are painfully sensitive to it. ... Mintz says this about high school, "High school was strongly shaped by the fact that most young people could expect to achieve the markers of adulthood-marriage, entry into an adult job, and establis...

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Holden is madly obsessive about keeping her innocence and preventing her from experiencing adulthood. ... Holden believes that he is the "catcher in the rye" to catch younger people in the field of rye before they are exposed to this "phony" world of adulthood. Throughout the novel, Holden struggles with the topic of sexual relations although he wants to experience it himself. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Salinger uses Holden's rebellious experiences to link all teenagers in the 1950s and the 1960s together. ... His story resonates within the teenage community because he reveals likely challenges teens endure while bridging the gap between adolescence and adulthood. ... Hate instills in the minds of Moody and Holden; both experience death and are painfully sensitive to it. ... Mintz says this about high school, "High school was strongly shaped by the fact that most young people could expect to achieve the markers of adulthood-marriage, entry into an adult job, and establishment of an ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher In The Rye" Holden Caulfield's judgment of society is jaded by his loss of innocence much like many other adolescents in today's world. Holden Caulfield is a symbol of today's youth more so then when the character was first introduced. Holden faces loneliness, fear of...

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Teens want to experience and experiment with sex, and even if they choose to remain abstinent until marriage, they will fantasize about it. ... The teenage years are a period of transition between childhood and adulthood. ...

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Holden is attracted to the ways of adulthood, the sex, the drinking, etc.. ... He begins to mature and surrender to an inevitable stage in his life, adulthood. ... This represents to Holden the need these children have to live out their dreams and become adults through a series of experiences. ...

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This paper aims to show all kinds troubles that Holden faced during that transition between adolescence and adulthood. ... Holden is a collage of the "human experience". ... So the research in this area could be important and valuable. 1.3 The motivation of selecting this topic (research value) As we all know, every man should experience growth, and growth has pain. ...

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For Ellen, she experiences grief due to her mother's death, and her father's abusive behavior. Holden has problems accepting adulthood; this is why he does not like adults and therefore isn't close with his parents. Gordie experiences neglect from his parents, who discourage and under- appreciate his amazing knack for writing. ... The difficulties, which young people often experience in trying to understand themselves, are intensified by the severity of the relationship void between themselves and their parents. ... While Ellen and Gordie feel more emotionally detached from th...

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As a teenager Holden lacks the love and affection from his parents that every teenager should experience, thus creating an inner insecurity. ... This inner battle that torments Holden is that of childhood versus Adulthood. ... In the end his choice is to be neither immature, arguably the disadvantage of childhood nor "phony" the cost of adulthood. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later when Holden sneaks into his parent's apartment to speak to Phoebe, he defines his desire to "catch" children from falling off a metaphorical cliff into the corruption of adulthood. ... In the same manner as Holden, people will travel through their lives gaining vast amounts of knowledge and have many experiences. ... After experiencing enough, they will solidify these ideals as Holden did with his stance on innocence. ...

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An example can been seen in the scene where Holden wants to be the "Catcher" in the Rye and stops children falling off the Cliff, which could also be symbolised as Holden wanting to catch children from falling into adulthood. ... He wants to experience it but every time he tries he is scared about it or he feels that he is ruining someone's innocence. ... In this short story, initially the main conflict focus on an Asian boy being beaten in the toilets, but it moves on to one of his opponents, who experiences a great inner conflict as he sees his opponent beaten up, we as viewers were rep...

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In other words, this symbolizes the innocent children playing in the childhood and saving them before they fall into the real world, the world of adulthood and "phoniness-. ... He didn't want me to experience all the horrible things life's path was carrying, just like Holden doesn't want his sister to become threatened by the society. ...

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Holden also has trouble accepting his phony peers, boys his age who are quickly becoming more and more fake as they grow into adulthood. ... I"d hold onto the banister and all, with this blood trickling out of the side of my mouth a little at a time (104) While experiencing this fantasy, Holden pictures himself in a movie, which he has tried so hard to avoid. ...

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Throughout the story, Holden reminisces on his experiences as a child, and the people who influenced his life the most. ... It is almost as if Phoebe is a younger version of Holden, which is the reason why he wants to protect her from the scary world of adulthood. ...

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This has been the reason why parents tend to punish their children in ways on how they would want their children to be, relying on their experiences, intuitive sense of right and wrong and from the cultural belief they were raised to believe to (Hamner & Turner, 2001). ...

• Word Count: 3156
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate