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Post by The Thought Police (admin) on Dec 10, 2016 6:48:00 GMT -5
Folks, I'm putting together a complete collection of all you need to know about Catcher. Here's a summary of the 5 key building blocks. Today and tomorrow, I'm posting quotations and analysis for each of these.
Catcher in the Rye Bible
Key Building Blocks to learn and then select from for using in essays.
1) Holden’s isolation from others. The fencing team and Thomsen Hill. Holden’s view of phoniness. Holden considers almost everything about the schools and his classmates phony. He appears to hate everything. Later, people try to help him see that this is a problem he has and that it is not actually the way things are. 2) Holden sees the transition from childhood to adulthood as something to be feared and something unnatural. a. Jane Gallagher – innocence and sex b. key symbols: ducks and the duck pond, Red Hunting Hat, Snowball, Thomsen Hill, Museum, Catcher in the Rye, Carousel 3) Holden’s descent into depression – encounter with Sunny and Maurice, his physical illness and mental illness 4) Holden’s conversations with Sally Hayes, Carl Luce and Mr Antolini as he is reaching out for someone to help him– the advice he gets 5) Holden’s recovery – at the carousel Holden realises he has been deluded in his views and begins to change. The circular narrative and the fact he ends up being treated by a psychoanalyst
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