Throughout the story the author shows that Holden has irregular outbursts of anger and depression after his brother died I slept in the garage the night he Allie died and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist 39 This quote shows that Holden is not able to deal with his brothers death and because his brother died Holden has emotional outbursts In this case Holden breaks all the windows because he doesnt know how else to deal with Allies death Breaking the windows shows Holdens desire to b
Brave New World expresses and reflects the modern world using the social and self conflicts throughout the utopia world Everyone has felt alone or confused about whom they are and where they want to be No one can go through life without lessons learned Huxley interpreted real life situations into this sci fi novel Issues about family love religion and friends are all addressed and helps to get a better understanding of one self Going through the situation is not always effective Reading about s
The Canterbury Tales Geoffery Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is an example of an extremely complicated and wondrous piece of fictional work This story is a fourteenth frame narrative from Britain The main story lines plot is a contest between thirty pilgrims on their way to Thomas Beckets Canterbury shrine tell tales Harry Baily is the lead pilgrim and is identified as the host states that in order to win the contest the pilgrim must tell tales of best sentence and moost solaas this means that t
Its not the last straw which broke the camels back In J D Salangers Catcher in the Rye the protagonist Holden Caulfield has many mental breakdowns Though it may not have been one solitary event that pushed him off the edge the one thing that started the whole ordeal was his brother Allies death Hes dead now He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine on July 18 1946 p 38 Holden refers to his brother multiple times in the novel showing how much impact Allie had on his life Holden still wil
In Catcher in the Rye the author allows a deeply disturbed and confused teenager named Holden Caulfield to tell his own story In contrary to other teenagers who wish to get older to benefit from advantages such as getting a drivers license and being independent Holden tries to grasp what is left of his childhood as he realizes the existing phoniness in the adult life and avoids being part in it for as long as he can He wishes to remain part of the innocent and pure life that children lead in li
In a novel with first person narration it is very important to remember that one cannot trust the speakers words to be one hundred percent true in terms of what actions really went on in a given situation This is especially true considering the fact that our narrator is Holden Caulfield who is clearly mentally unstable and is recapping his story to a psychiatrist of the events leading up to his big nervous breakdown In the very early pages of the book Holden even tells us that we cannot trust h
Sixteen years of age marks the dawn of a tumultuous period The dividing line between a simplistic childhood marked by innocence and a stressful adulthood full of responsibility becomes muddled and unclear This transitional phase has often provoked within me a sense of isolation and desire to escape the complexities of maturation However I do not wish to remain a child forever and anticipate my eventual entrance into adulthood Holden Caulfield the narrator in J D Salingers novel The Catcher in t
In J D Salingers The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist Holden Caulfield analyzes his family as a representative slice of society Consequently he concludes that adult society is phony and corrupt Throughout the book the sour taste Holden suffers by his perception of this social scene leads him to confess his need to protect and maintain the innocence of childhood whether it be his or others In Chapter Twenty Five particularly the reader can find specific examples to demonstrate this as well as
In Raymond Carvers short story Cathedral he uses a first person narrator to tell the story to emphasize the bewildering aspects of the transcending moment that he relates in the story The narrator is concerned only about how the visit from Robert will affect him and is contemptuous of what role Robert may have played in his wifes past At the same time the narrator lacks self awareness There was no conclusion at the end of the story Carver finishes with leaving the narrator with his eyes closed
Wide Sargasso Sea a novel of racism feminism greed misery and madness written by Jean Rhys in 1960 this story tells a tale of main character Antoinette Cosway her life growing up and the paths taken by herself and made by others around her The author decided to pen this book due to her fondness for Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte and this was meant as an unofficial prequel to the ever popular story also starring Mr Rochester and Antoinette as Bertha the madwoman upstairs At the time when