Hero Project by Nicole Liang

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Hero Project

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CATCHER IN THE RYE

J.D. SALINGER

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Holden Caulfield is always getting into trouble at school and he's also been expelled a couple of times.

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He has an internal conflict that he thinks everyone around him is a phony

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ANTI HERO

FAILS AT SCHOOL, ATTACKS ROOMMATE, ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR

He wants to be a classical hero but there are things that he just can't overcome and he struggles to be accepted. In some ways, he is like a hero because he cares and he overcomes his obstacles

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The setting takes place in New York after the hero gets kicked out of Pency Prep. He calls up his past friends but they always end up walking out on him.

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Holden's alienation is his way of protecting himself. Ever since his brother died, he wasn't sure how to react so he built a wall which prevented him from making new relationships; a wall that blocks out all the phonies

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"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you."

Holden has already demonstrated that he fears and does not know how to deal with conflict, confusion, and change. The museum presents him with a vision of life he can understand: it is frozen, silent, and always the same. Holden can think about and judge the Eskimo in the display case, but the Eskimo will never judge him back. It troubles him that he has changed each time he returns, while the museum’s displays remain completely the same. They represent the simple, idealistic, manageable vision of life that Holden wishes he could live.

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“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”

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. . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.

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“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”

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"But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair."

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"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”

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JD Salinger led the life of Holden Caulfield in the book. He moved from New York City and led a secluded life. He also flunked out of school when he was younger. Just like a lot of the young men, at that time, he was drafted into the army and that let him some trauma. He wrote the book to express his angst at the world and it's misunderstanding of youth but he released this book right before he died.