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- 821: The Catcher in The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
- ... Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards his parents, angry with his teachers, and flunking out of school. However, as his story progresses, it becomes clear that Holden is indeed motivated, just not academically. He has a purpose: to protect the young and innocent minds of young children from the horrors of adult ... this goal is quite unachievable. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye, then realizes it is an unreachable ideal. Holden begins his story misguided and without direction. After flunking out of the Pencey School, Holden decides to leave early. Before he leaves, though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about his direction in life: Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, ...
- 822: A Separate Peace: Contrasting Gene and Phineas and the Struggle for Power
- ... for power. While, Phineas was inspired by his own power within. The novel conveys how peace can weaken or inspire during a mental war. Phineas, a natural rebel, is known as the best athlete in school. For example, he and three others come to look at a tree, which is considered among the Upper Middler students at Devon an impossibility. Phineas demonstrates his supreme power by stating that the tree is ... by gaining the respect of fellow classmates. Phineas' spontaneity inspires many others to be like himself and jump off the tree. Another example of Phineas' power is his character establishing scene of disrespect to the school by wearing his pink shirt and the Devon School tie as his belt. We here, again, see him as the spontaneous individual who "can get away with anything" (p.18). Phineas' nature inspired Mr. Patch-Withers, a teacher at Devon. Phineas has an ...
- 823: Courage in Individuals in "On Being Seventeen", "The Most Dangerous Game" and "Giving Blood"
- ... Dangerous Game written by Richard Connel, and Mrs. O'Neill from Giving Blood, written by Roberta Silmen. David Raymond, from the book On Being Seventeen, is courageous in a psychological way. He is a high school student who was born with dyslexia. He writes about his life and how difficult school and learning to read was for him. All he wants is for people to accept him the way he is. ิำ...anyway life was awful. More then anything I wanted some friends.ำ By the end of high school he was more excepted in places where he once was ostracized. He even tries to help people with the same problem he has. าMaybe he was scared like I was....In elementary school it ...
- 824: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation. The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the Bible. Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't get outside, he escaped to his room and read ... loved to tell stories to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories. In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park High School. As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly school newspaper. It seems that the principal did not approve of Ernest's writings and he complained, often, about the content of Ernest's articles. Ernest was clear about his writing; he wanted people to " ...
- 825: Personal Bond With My Friends During Tennis Camp
- Personal Bond With My Friends During Tennis Camp During the summer months following my seventh grade school year, I was involved in tennis camp activities with two of my closest friends, Suzanne and Erin. This was the first time that we were able to get to know each other better away from school since we did not have any classes together that year. Even though we were good friends, I had never felt a sense of camaraderie with either of them because they participated in sports, while I was involved in academics and other school activities. Not having had any paritcular interest in sports before the summer camp session, it was surprising that I became completely enthralled with the sport of tennis. Tennis proved to be my initial experience ...
- 826: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... America. She found a special thing in this town, where she said, "... [I] grew like a like a gourd and yelled bass like a gator," (Gale, 1). When Hurston was thirteen she was removed from school and sent to care for her brother's children. She became a member of a traveling theater at the age of sixteen, and then found herself working as a maid for a white woman. This woman saw a spark that was waiting for fuel, so she arranged for Hurston to attend high school in Baltimore. She also attended Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by later enrollment in Howard University. In 1928 Hurston attended Barnard College where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. After she graduated, Zora returned to Eatonville to begin work on anthropology. Four years ...
- 827: Herman Hesses Demian
- ... to be noticed; his manner and bearing was that of a prince disguised among farm boys, taking great pains to appear one of them. The first encounter between Sinclair and Demian occurs one day after school as the two boys are walking home. Sinclair had learned the biblical story of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis that day in class. Demian starts a conversation about the story and challenges ... his childhood, his family, and the world of light . The fourth chapter brings the separation of Sinclair and Demian, as well as Sinclair s separation from his family, when Sinclair is sent off to boarding school. This foreign world offers only loneliness and insecurity to Sinclair, who does not fit in with the other young men. Sinclair goes through a trying time of confusion and isolation at the boarding school as he searches for the road to himself. At one point, out of desperation, Sinclair resorts to rebellion. He begins to drink in bars and he becomes renowned among his classmates for being careless, ...
- 828: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- ... text "the Gentleman tried to commit suicide by hanging himself". He was tired of suffering, because of not having his wife. Then we see the "Nada" speech that includes two prayers. One was the Lords prayer and when putting "nada" in the text tells us that the Gentleman had nothing to feel good about. The other was Hail Mary, which is only seen in Catholicism and all religions have a Lords prayer but Catholicism. He also feels that there is nothing to feel bad about. Basically, there is nothing left in life but death. So, if the Gentleman tried to commit suicide and talks of Hail Marys ... up. We see this through the old waiter. The old waiter is telling the young waiter about life, which is the Gentlemans inner conflict. The old waiter gives two prayers, one being the Lords prayer, which says, "Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and ...
- 829: A Separate Peace - Phineas And Gene
- ... the story. It is quickly apparent that Gene is insecure. An example of this occurs when he finds out that he is room mates with Phineas. "I had seen him at a distance around the school the previous winter, and gotten the impression he was bigger than I."(J. Knowles, 100) This quotation shows our first introduction with Gene's insecure character. One can see this because he immediately assumed Phineas ... knowing that. This would show that he is jealous of Phineas. Gene also knows he is jealous but tries to talk himself out of the thought. "He might be the best natural athlete in the school, the most popular boy, but I was winning where it counted" (105) This quotation shows how Gene actually admits that Phineas is better than him. Nevertheless, we know that it upsets him because he adds ... Gene tried on Phineas's clothes because he wanted to have that same apparent air of confidence that Phineas had. This constant preoccupation with Phineas often got Gene side tracked. Gene was very involved in school, one could say that Gene was intelligent. An example of this occurs while Gene and Phineas are studying for their History test. "I didn't do well in that course: that is, I got ...
- 830: Catcher In The Rye - Holden
- ... the loss of innocence. He did not want children to grow up because he felt that adults are corrupt. This is seen when Holden tries to erase naughty words from the walls of an elementary school where his younger sister Phoebe attended. "While I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how ... think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it. I figured it was some perverty bum that'd sneaked in the school late at night to take a leak or something and then wrote it on the wall. I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till hew as good and goddam dead and bloody." (201) His deep concern with impeccability caused him to create stereotypes of a hooligan that would try to corrupt the children of an elementary school. Holden believed that children were innocent because they viewed the world and society without any bias. When Phoebe asked him to name something that he would like to be when he grew up, the ...
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