She wants to reveal these secrets to someone, but she can’t tell her friends because she assumes that they will criticize her. She writes about all her worries concerning her father’s alcoholism on scraps of paper and puts the note in a library book. A few days later she receives a note from a person whose initials are A.J.K and opens up even more about her father’s alcohol abuse as well as her crush on an older boy named Drew, but later finds out that A.J.K is a boy who works at the library. After that she goes to a party with Drew and that where everything hits rock bottom for her because she starts to drink and starts telling lies to everyone, but understands what she did was inappropriate. At the end her father finally admits that he is an alcoholic and goes to rehab for
When he comes to see her, they go out on a date but she realizes they've drifted apart and aren't the same so breaks up with him, who has no reaction. He later comes back and tells her it hurt too much. When her brother wins a cruise on the S.S. Tipton, she goes also and meets Zack Martin, who develops a crush on her and asks her out, but she says no. When he gets blamed for a prank she pulled on her brother, he finds out it was her and asks her where she's been all of his
As the book starts off, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield is revealed by a series of hints that there is something not clicking with him. Holden starts off by saying he’s not getting into his early life because it bores him, and he will tell us of the “madman” things that has lead him to “this place.” We can conclude that Holden has been hospitalized for some type of mental breakdown. The first character we are introduced to is Mr. Spencer, Holden’s former History teacher. Holden has just gotten kicked out of Pencey Prep for failing four classes. He is visiting Mr. Spencer for “some kind of a goodbye.” Spencer tires to get Holden out of this academic failure phase.
In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, the main character Holden alienates himself due to his refusal to take responsibility of his life as he is growing up. Holden Caulfeild struggles through his teenage life, has been kicked out of several schools, is disgusted by society, and is naively fixated on childhood. Holden continually envies the innocence that children possess as he finds the adult world repulsive. Holden’s fear of growing up was so subconsciously intense that he yet again ruined another chance to turn his life around. He failed all of his classes except for English when enrolled in Pencey Prep; Thus proving that he is capable of maintaining some substantial grades… yet he single handily got himself kicked out of
One day Alex and one of his friends made a bet that if Alex could not sleep with Brittany by Thanksgiving he would have to give his friend his motorcycle. At first, Alex was losing the bet because Brittany would not even look at him but as the book goes on Alex comes up with ways to make her fall in love with him and they start to work not only on Brittany, but himself too. Alex at first thought Brittany had this perfect life but he finds out that it is just an act she puts on at school. At home, Brittany has to deal with her crazy mom, who wants Brittany to be perfect, her dad, who is never really home, and her older sister, who is disabled and the only person who Brittany thinks understand her. Towards the end of the book, Brittany sees what it is like on the south side, where Alex lives, what he life is like, and why he is in a gang.
Long writes “I love my son but he terrifies me.” Long’s son has threatened to kill her for wanting him to return over do library books. She has gone as-far-as setting up safety plans for his other siblings when his violent rages start. Her final straw was on her way to take him to school. He was upset about having to change his pants. He calls her names and goes into a screaming rage.
She also meets Jacob Coote, the school captain from the local state school, who asks Josie out. Jacob and Josie seem completely wrong together but after a few disastrous dates they get together. While Josie is dating Jacob, John Barton starts having deep conversations with her about him suffering from depression. One day, after Josie getting into trouble at school for breaking a girl’s nose, she needs to be stopped from getting sued. She thought of someone, her father.
One day his teacher gives him a letter and tells him not to read it until he got home, John was worried because his teacher never told him to read a letter at home before because he does not like John because most of the fights that John gets in are in school. He went home and went straight up to his room, he opened the letter and it said that John has been expelled from his school and that he gets to finish out the week; he went downstairs to tell his mom but when he was downstairs he saw his father lying on the couch and vomiting profusely, right next to him was his
Like Max, Kevin was picked on by the local bully’s because of his disability, but they blamed Max for the incident. Later that day, Max was waiting for his new reading tutor, it was Kevin. Kevin wobbled in with his hunch back and crutches, gave him a book and told him to read, but Max was not able to very well. The next tutor session they have together, Kevin gives Max five dollars and asks if he would take him to the festival to see the fireworks. They arrive to the fireworks show, but Kevin can not see since he is short.
After a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, Holden leaves school two days early to explore New York before returning home, interacting with teachers, prostitutes, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his sister along the way. J.D. Salinger's classic The Catcher in the Rye illustrates a teenager's dramatic struggle against death and growing up. Holden Caulfield’s problem derive from the death of his brother, begin neglected by his parents and finding comfort only begin around people. Holden Canfield’s root of his problem was caused by death of his brother Allie.