In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
Allie, Holden's young brother who died several years beforehand is a major symbol throughout the novel. When Holden remembers incidents from his past involving him, his attitude changes, such as when he writes the composition about Allie's baseball glove or when Holden remembers breaking his hand after punching all of the windows after Allie’s passing. "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it”, (Salinger 39). He feels that Allie was one of the few people who was normal in a world full of phonies. More importantly, Allie represents the innocence and childhood that Holden strives to find throughout his three-day journey.
Pencey’s ad says that they have been “Molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men” (2). But Holden’s response to this boast is that, “They don’t do any damn more molding at Pencey than they do at any other school” (2). As the readers can see quite clearly, Holden is very cynical about people already. The school is actually probably full of nice people and well-rounded individuals, but Holden just makes them out to be phonies because that’s what Holden is himself. Holden’s cynicism is actually well-founded at times.
He found himself becoming polar opposite to his parents and even resenting them because of the fact that they were not college educated people. But when it came the time that realized he wanted to be close with his family it was his education that gave him the ability to speak and care about that. Rodriguez often referred to himself as the so called “scholarship boy” from Hoggarts essay. “For although I was a very good student, I was also a very bad student. I was a “scholarship boy” a certain kind of scholarship boy.
Due to his background teachers regarded him as a hopeless cause because his difficulty in using Received Pronunciation which contrasts against Harrison's attitude towards language and that there is a variety of dialect within the English language which everyone uses to convey a conversation with one another. When Harrison was young he was overawed by his "posh" teacher who embarrassed him resulting in him feeling demeaned and docile. The first section is in the form of a memory emphasised through the embedded dialogue of the teacher showing how he is undermined as the teacher wants to make sure their "glorious heritage" is not "done to death" suggesting that teacher is aiming to undermine Harrison by discouraging him from reading the important roles. Similarly, in "Bringing Up", he emphasises his separation from his mother as she disgusted over him using taboo language. The use of embedded dialogue implies the different view on the Leeds accent emphasised in his mother being disgusted with him and believes he was not "brought up to write such mucky books!"
Bruce is stating that he doesn’t like the thought of having to go to school or work on Labour Day. To Bruce, it seemed that he didn’t like school, due to the reason of it being like a prison for him and the teachers being like prison guards. In paragraph 2, line 6 Bruce implies “ teachers, like prison guards […] “ That’s one of the literary terms he used. That specific quotation is a simile, because he’s using ‘’like’’ and he’s comparing teachers to prison guards. I think that when he compares those different objectives, he makes it seem more similar, than they actually are.
His influences for the other students are negative because he doesn’t really remember too much French. He even forgot how to pronounce the alphabets. David tries to adapt to the new environment by playing attention to the other students likes and dislikes. He also notices how aggressive and rude the teacher is to everyone’s response. When the teacher gets to David, he says how he loves IBM typewriters, the French word bruise, and his electric floor waxer.
Holden, the protagonist of the book, seems to be a typical teenage boy; he can be a rebel at times, does not really like adults, he goes out on dates, and it seems like he does not enjoy school at all, except for English which seems to be his favorite subject. Even though he seems to do what any other regular teenager would do, he shows many different feelings and attitudes throughout the book. He acts in a manner that many would consider to be immaturity, negativism or simply exaggeration; he is a teenager, it is understandable he acts that way, right? However, J.D. Salinger shows how Holden’s childhood have shaped his attitude towards others.
This essay will be about the movie Dead Poets Society and the rules which are imposed by the teacher Mr. Keating and also how the teachers deal with students who break the rules. In the movie we can see that the teacher is a hero to his students, the teacher uses different types of methods and applies different rules to which the school applies, this in a sense is very important as one must be aware of the context in which they are teaching. The rules applied in this movie may seem to show that Mr. Keating is a very good teacher, but as the context is not appropriate for his teaching methods it portrays him as being a bad teacher. Firstly, I will be talking about the teacher’s style of teaching, Mr. Keating is a teacher who wants his students to think for themselves, and encourages them to do what they think its right even if they are told the opposite. He also mentions that words and ideas can change the world, assuring the students that they can do whatever they please because their thoughts matter.
Officer Raleigh is portrayed as a naïve/boyish man. This can be proven by his childish comments such as when he describes the war as “silly”. Though as naïve/boyish he may be he is eager to prove himself and be recognized as an independent/ responsible soldier. This is seen when Stanhope commands Raleigh to go on duty with Trotter he replies without hesitation “Oh, Right”. Raleigh's character seems to be very timid from the start he has just left school and in a way has almost continued on with his school days; Denis's' presence at the dugout gives Raleigh a sense of protection like when he was a school.