Only a teenager can really relate to this because Holden was not straight with his parents, every teenager has lied to their parents at some point. This is a bad choice because as a minor Holden is hurting his future by smoking that young. Another thing that is not a good idea is buying a prostitute, “five bucks a throw. Fifteen bucks the whole night” (p.91). Holden was bored and wide awake in his hotel room in New York.
The novel spends a lot of time talking about how Holden is spending too much money trying to lose his virginity to all these different prostitutes every week. Holden has many attempts to lose his virginity with prostitutes, but yet he doesn’t. Holden would call up a prostitute that someone has told him about and pay her an amount of money that she asked for. When it was time for Holden to sleep with the girl Holden would have trouble sleeping with her. Reasons why may be, because he would think of Jane and Stradlater.
After the loss of his younger brother, Allie, from leukemia and being expelled from Pency Prep, Holden decides to leave and wander in New York. However during his sightseeing, Holden soon discovers what he calls the “phoniness” of adults and the pain of growing up; while experiencing this
Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis is a remarkable and disturbing novel. This novel is fast paced and it usually focuses on the main character throughout the novel. The novel tells how the main character, Clay quits his drug habits and how he started to become more mature. The novel, Less Than Zero is about an eighteen year old college student named Clay that went to he’s hometown for winter break from his eastern college school and has the time of his life by hanging out with his drug addict friends. The novel is involved with many drugs, sex, and violence.
Holden learns that the evils of the world are inescapable, and present everywhere, whether he likes that fact or not. This realization comes to Holden while he watches his younger sister, Phoebe, whom he cares about very deeply, play on the carousel. Holden matured very deeply throughout the course of this novel, his weekend in New York City. He went from being an immature character to really finding himself, and maturing as a person. In the beginning of the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D.
While living with her he ends up experiencing plenty of things good and bad. He gets his first real job, but he also starts using drugs and alcohol. He moves out of his half sisters home because she doesn’t approve of his white girlfriend and moves in with a friend of his in Harlem. This is where Malcolm’s downward spiral progresses even further as he gets involved in even more serious crimes such as armed robberies and selling marijuana. He even gets his brother Reginald in on his dirty jobs as well.
Suffering and pain, relationships and risk are major themes in Five Parts Dead and almost always explored in contemporary adolescent fiction novels because they are common topics that young adults encounter in their everyday lives. Suffering and pain occurs when you have a bad experience and hurt either physically or mentally as a result of it. There are many possible bad experiences that could result in suffering and pain, for example, in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Choosby, the main character, Charlie experiences mental pain as a result of depression, his best friend's suicide and the memory of abuse, he says, 'there is so much pain and I don't know how to not notice it'. While Dan on the other hand in Five Parts Dead, suffers from both mental and physical pain from the car accident. Dan broke his leg in the accident and he feels 'like roofing nails are being belted into my busted foot', while he suffers mentally because he lost three of his best mates.
P2 Jane is 24 and has recently lost both her parents in a car accident and has turned to drugs as a coping mechanism. Because of her drug habit Jane is facing losing her job and her boyfriend of 4 years has also suggested they break up. People we love can die at any stage in our life and it is always hard to deal with the pain of losing a loved one, however the pain is even greater when we lose them at a young age or if we lose them unexpectedly. Death affects every person differently and people have different ways of coping with the death of people they love. When Jane lost her parents she will have gone through the transition of life with them to life without them and it will have been very sudden for her as they died accidentally.
Neurochemical imbalances were to blame for his condition after years of studying this disorder and his living condition. Ed would see, hear and talk to his mother after her death. Ed Gein’s case of necrophilia and transvestism fetishism is one of the most infamous cases in America. Ed Gein’s mental state arose from the unhealthy emotional attachment he experienced with his mother and how she raised him. Ed Gein had a natural sexual attraction to the opposite sex but remembered how his mother discouraged all sexual desires.
When she meets up with Adam near the beginning, you'd never even begin to predict what would happen throughout the entire book. What makes it sad though, is toward the end it seems like she can't find anyone to rely on because she's disconnected herself from her family and friends, and instead takes refuge beneath the wings of 'the monster', letting it guide her through, knowing she's strongly addicted. Ellen leaves you with the knowledge that she may never get off her addiction, and partially with the moral of the story: drugs are addictive and harmful. They can really mess you up. The book actually makes you learn a lesson, without knowing anything at all.