English Journal – The Catcher in the Rye January 1 Chapter 1-2 In the two opening chapters we are introduced to Holden Caulfield and his life at Pencey High. This is all about to end due to his failure in 4/5 subjects. My initial reaction to Holden's personality was that he had a ver...

The Catcher in the Rye "I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood." (William Shakespeare) The transition of adolescence to adulthood is most often represented by actio...

"Phoniness" is the dominating theme in The Catcher in the Rye. Holden uses this word to describe everything that goes on around him. In Chapter 22, Holden talks about how adults are phonies and worse yet, they cannot see their own phoniness. Holden makes sure the readers know that he is a compulsive...

Censorship *****'s "Censorship, so far as I see it, is like a law which prohibits swimming altogether because such a law will prevent someone from swimming in a sewer" (Brower 1). Here, in the twenty- first century, the banning of thoughts and ideas in humanities and media has be...

School is in conflict - over a banned book! Who ever heard of a literary classic being banned from school? Well, that's just what happens at the George Mason High School when a small group of parents and students brand Huckleberry Finn as racist, sexist and immoral, and persuade the principal ...