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The novel follows, holding around for two days after he
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leaves Princey and Adventures around New York City.
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Some of holding schoolmates are introduced who he, for the
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most part funds repulsive during his impulsive rampage around the
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city, holding runs a cheap hotel room and runs around
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spending money, smoking, drinking, lying and avoiding the moment he
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has to face his parents and reality.
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Holden also goes as far as hiring a prostitute, who
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he then refuses to sleep with and in return gets
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beaten up by her pimp.
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He encounters a pair of nuns, an old girlfriend, his
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sister, and continually obsesses over where the ducks will go
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in the New York Central Park pond.
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Come winter, he fights between the authenticity in the city
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and the artificiality, which is evident in his actions.
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He ends the novel after spending the night at an
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old English teachers house, where he awakes to being patted
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on the head, which he takes his a sexual advance.
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This creepy encounter drives holding into an emotional breakdown, which
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brings him toe where he is writing the novel from
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themes. In the novel.
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There are many heavy themes covered in the novel as
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it explores the life and mind of a 16 year
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old, which is very crucial and pivotal time in life
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themes such as loss of innocents, religion, teenage sexuality, depression
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and alienation.
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But one of the most and crucial, most important and
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crucial themes and what I will be presenting on is
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the struggle between three authentic and the artificial.
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The thesis for my presentation is holding struggle to find
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balance between artificiality and authenticity, which is demonstrated through the
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writing style and narration of the novel, characters and objects
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of symbolism.
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The first way the theme is Communicated is through the
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writing style of the novel.
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The first example of this is how Holden uses the
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novel as a sort of diary and commits to using
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slang and informal language.
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When Holden says, you were supposed to commit suicide or
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something. If Old Pence he didn't win, he addresses the
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reader like a friend.
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He often use a spoken language of devices such as
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repetition. Collectively is, um, and look totes as well as
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includes profound language such as damn and hell to resist.
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He does this to resist the norms of formal writing.
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He sets himself apart from others from other writers and
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therefore demonstrates his own authenticity.
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The next example of this is holding unreliable and biased
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narration style.
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At first, the way holding contradicts himself and says things
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just to justifies action or thoughts appears, as Holden would
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say, phony.
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For example.
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He wasn't even listening.
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He rarely, ever listen to you when you said something.
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The funny thing is, though, I was already thinking about
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something else while I shot the bull.
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An example of this is one, Holden says.
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Nobody move.
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Nobody be different.
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The only thing that would be different was you.
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The next way, the theme is translated in the novelist,
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through the numerous characters who toe hold on either represent
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authenticity or artificiality.
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Making fake gestures and putting on faces for certain people
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are examples of the fake inauthentic lifestyle that holding cannot
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stand that he associates with adults.
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The first instance of this is when Holden introduces the
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reader to his older brother, D B.
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He used to just be a regular writer.
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When he was home, he wrote this terrific book of
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short stories.
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Now he's out in Hollywood TV being a prostitute.
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Many other adults continue to exemplify the steam, including headmaster
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Haas, who Onley greets and converse eights with the wealthy
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families while ignoring the less fortunate.
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A swell a swells the whole audience at the lunch
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play during the intermission who were quote Holden talking about
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the place that everyone could hear and know how sharp
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they were on page 140.
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Both hold it both holding categorizes as phony.
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He has no trouble determining the truth behind all adults
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and rules them out as ambassadors for all artificiality in
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the world.
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Moreover, Children are a huge symbol of inauthenticity of authenticity.
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Toe hold in their ignorance towards people's judgment as well
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as lack of tarnish from society's corruption leaves them as
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a perfect example of genuineness.
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Ali, who is Holden's younger brother and passes away from
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leukemia at 11, is a strong template for purity toe
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Hold it.
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It wasn't just that he was the most intelligent.
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He was also the nicest.
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The kid was swell.
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He was walking in the street instead of the sidewalk,
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but right next looker, he kept singing and humming.
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He was just singing for the hell of it, you
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could tell.
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The car zoomed by brakes, screeched all over the place.
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His parents paid no attention to him, and he kept
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on walking Salinger 1 28 1 29 though any knowledge
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about this boy holding immediately finds joy in the child's
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just pure ignorance and content.
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Lastly, teenagers air where the line between authentic and artificial
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becomes blurry for holding, especially as he is at the
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time. Struggling was staying authentic while growing up.
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First person holdings Age that is introduced is the novel
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is Selma Therm.
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Er was the headmaster's daughter what I liked about her.
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She didn't give you a lot of horse manure about
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what a great guy her father, Waas holding, decides that
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she's Nok teenager, since she doesn't praise her phony father
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like everyone else.
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Hey K, she has her own ideas in personality.
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I am the most terrific liar you ever saw in
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your life.
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Finally, many objects materialize the theme and portray the inner
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conflict that Holden is fighting.
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The red hunting cap symbolizes authenticity, authenticity toe hold in
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and acts as a way for him to express himself.
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The red hat that Holden is rarely seen without is
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far from the regular peril for teens.
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Even in the 19 fifties.
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In a conversation with a schoolmate, he comments on the
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hat, saying, That's a deer shooting hat and holding response
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like hell it is.
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This is a people shooting hat.
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Ali's left handed baseball mitt is another symbol of into
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individualism for holding.
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It is already clear that Ali's innocents is very admirable.
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Admirable toe hold in, and along with that innocents comes
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authenticity, which proves to be just as important.
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It has explained that Ali's Mitt, which is filled with
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poems for Ali, to read on the field he had
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written poems all over the fingers and pockets and everywhere
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in green ink, he wrote them, said that he would
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have something to read when he was on the field.
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This shows that a news article about the left handed
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people in the world finally New York City and the
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novel embodies the conflict between authenticity and pretension.
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On one hand, much of the city represents the type
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of falseness that holding cannot stand.
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Things such as the Rockets Superficial Christmas show at Radio
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City Music Hall, which holding experiences and hates I went
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to the movies at the Radio City, is probably the
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worst thing I could have done.
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The Rockets were kicking their heads off.
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New York is a famous theater study that toe hold
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on represents commercialization and showing us at the same time.
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The city is so vast and diverse that there are
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elements which demonstrate one's ability to be unique.
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Discussion questions.
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Can you relate to the struggle between artificiality and authenticity?
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Well, aspects of today's world do you think add to
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the world superficiality?
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Why do you believe adulthood and lies always come hand
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in hand?