ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on English
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He is trying to run away from the fact that he life is in a mess by comforting himself with childhood ambitions. He nevertheless acknowledges the fact that his ideas are crazy but he has no alternative. Holden decides to telephone Mr. Antolini, his former teacher in English who invites him to his house. As his former teacher is counseling him, he falls asleep on the couch only to wake up and find Antolini patting his forehead a gesture he considers homosexual alienated. This makes him to excuse in a hurry and leave.
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ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on English
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It is after he meets Sally that he gets someone whom he can talk to about why he feels unhappy in school. He offers her chance to away together to Massachusetts or Vermont, but she refuses and he calls her pain in the ass, something that makes her mad. Holden meets a student in the Columbian university by the name of Carl Luce who used to be his advisor at Whooton School.
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ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on English
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If there is one person that Holden despises then it is Ackley. He has a terrible dental hygiene and Holden does not like his company. Holden evens doubts his next-door neighbor’s sexual prowess that he keeps on telling him about. Holden thinks that there is no woman who can stand Ackley. Though he refers to Stradlater as a “secret slob,” he knows that he is self satisfied and handsome. Despite the fact that he is ever well groomed some of his toiletries are very dirty. (Salinger 27) He also refers to him as a sex bastard because of his sexual experience despite the fact that he is a prep school student.
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ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on English
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Holden promises the reader that he would not say how he got sick but he will go back to school the coming fall as he sees a bright future lying ahead of him. Through Holden, the reader is able to see how the world is ugly and hypocritical. He has been expelled from school because of reasons he could have avoided and he finds himself in an almost unbearable situation.
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ESSAY SAMPLES, Essays on English
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A young man by the name of Holden Caulfield narrates the story in the 1950s but he does not state his exact location. Gathering from his narration it is clear that he is undergoing treatment in a mental health institution. He is speaking about the events that took place a few days after school close for fall vacation and Christmas when the boy is sixteen years of age. His story begins in his fourth school having fallen out of the first three.
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