The famous American author, Jerome David Salinger, created Holden Caulfield in the book, “The Catcher in the Rye,” as an autobiographical character. Holden’s many adventures lead from his school in Pennsylvania to Central Park in New York. The more readers get to know him, the more they can see that he is a very unique ...
The word “bildungsroman,” is a German term that basically translates to “education novel.” Merely the fact that this term was introduced into literary discussion by the German, and is now a common term for discussion of coming-of-age stories in English speaking circles, shows that the concept itself certainly exists across cultural boundaries. In every culture, ...
Adolescence is a time of change and confusion. It is also a journey that we each take on our own road to self discovery. This time between childhood and adulthood is often a tough transition because the sugar coated world we live in as children becomes a dangerous, unknown abyss in which we much leap ...
What is madness? Webster’s Dictionary describes madness as the “quality or condition of being insane ” However there seems to be another definition of madness, a more poetic version, one that takes into consideration the other point of view. In The Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a young man named Holden, is defined ...
