In his opinion, Allie stands for the purity that Holden looks for in the world. Holden admits that he admires Allie more than he admires Jesus and even prays to Allie at one point, rather than to him. Thus, Allie is Holden's role model, whom he judges the rest of the world against. When he dies, this event nearly wrecks Holden's life. Now as a depressed and lonely teenager, Holden expresses his grief by showing constant anger towards his friends, especially when he goes on a date with Sally Hayes in chapter 17.
Allie, Holden’s younger brother, had leukemia. Allie ended up dying and Holden kept his baseball glove. Holden seems very fond of Allie and every memory of him. On page 38, he
Mitchell Pucci ENG3U1 Mrs. Pudas May 18th, 2011 TITLE One of the major issues in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is the events leading up to the breakdown of a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield. Holden’s breakdown is a result of his relationship with others, the death of his brother, his personality, and his destructive choices. One of the main contributing factors towards Holden’s breakdown is the death of his brother, Allie. The loss of a sibling is obviously a traumatic event for anyone, especially a teenager.
Charlie is the “hero” of the novel. One quote from the second chapter really relates to the conflicts of Charlie in The Perks of being a Wallflower, “How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?” (Campbell 70) The Perks of being a Wallflower has many conflicts set in the topic of death and being alive. Charlie's friend Micheal kills himself before high school and all that's left to remember him by is a poem he wrote is which the last stanza is “That's why on the back of a brown paper bag he tried another poem And he called it "Absolutely Nothing" Because that's what it was really all
The symbols are so important and their symbolism is directly related to the major themes of the novel. Allie, Holden's young brother who died several years earlier, was a major symbol throughout the story. When Holden remembers incidents from his past involving Allie, his attitude changes, such as when he writes the composition about Allie's baseball glove or when Holden broke his hand after punching all of the windows after Allie died. "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it". (39) He feels that Allie was one of the few people who were not phony in a world full of phonies.
Family members are supposed to be nice to each other. They aren't supposed to bully or be mean to each other. Doodle's brother, from James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis," does not follow this family standard. A lot of readers say that he was a good brother but the truth is that he was not. He was arrogant and ungenerous to Doodle and only did things for himself.
We see this in several different ways. Holden seeks out both a mother figure, and a father figure. Holden’s mother becomes sickly and nervous with the death of her child, “She hasn’t felt too healthy since my brother Allie died. She’s very nervous. That’s another reason why I hated like hell for her to know I got the ax again.”(107), and this causes Holden to worry about her, and nurture her more than she nurtures him.
He has many feelings of loneliness, betrayal, disgust, and most of all depression. But little to readers know that Holden of The Cather in the Rye is close to being a split image of J.D. Salinger. Holden Caulfield starts out in the book getting kicked out of yet another private school as a junior, some from a broken home, with his dad being a lawyer and his mother being a housewife. His younger brother died and his older is in Hollywood “prostituting” himself.
It is inevitable that if you lose someone close to you that you will be affected. People grieve, and are sad, but then they find an outlet and take their loss and use it as strength in some way. When Phoebe asks Holden to name something he likes, he says Allie. This is important because Holden doesn’t have anything that he stably likes. The only thing he can think of is his dead brother.
Published back in 1949, along came a book called 1984 written back one of my heroes, the great George Orwell. I read it again, and again: it was right up there among my favorite books. Nineteen Eighty-Four describes what it's like to live entirely within such a system. Its hero, Winston, has only fragmentary memories of what life was like before the present dreadful regime set in: he's an orphan, a child of the collectivity. His father died in the war that has ushered in the repression, and his mother has disappeared, leaving him with only the reproachful glance she gave him as he betrayed her over a chocolate bar - a small betrayal that acts both as the key to