Catcher Essay In the book Catcher in the Rye, Holden is a sixteen year old junior who is expelled for flunking out of his school called Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Prency is the fourth school that he has been expelled from. In this book there is a lot of swearing, sex, drugs, and lying. This is understandable why it was banned from schools. Holden’s tone as he tells his story varies between disgust, cynicism, bitterness, and nostalgic longing.
Workers without a high school diploma earn about $21,000 a year in Georgia, compared to $26,000 for those with a diploma and $43,000 from college graduates," one administrator said. For these reasons, the administrators say they are not going to tolerate truancy anymore. Some states in the East have applied this method to persuade students to go to school. Governor of Minnesota, Tim Pawlenty says," Students are much more likely to succeed in school if they're regularly showing up for classes. Linking
Though a lot of other students have this same problem, a lot of them do not. Some students that I know do not expand their horizons as far as they should. People are always telling me it’s just more convenient for them to go to Southeast instead of moving
This book was published in 1962 by Anthony Burgess. Within twenty years it has been banned in countless high schools, some of which include Aurora, Colorado (1976); Westport, Rhode Island (1977); and high school libraries in Anniston, Alabama (1982) for many reasons (Lancto, Craig The World & I, 09-01-2003). A Clockwork Orange has been the center of controversy due to Anthony Burgess’s questionable language as well as the very graphic scenes. Many parents feel as though their children aren’t ready for this type of violence while still attending high school, and in all reality I feel as though they won’t. From reading this book and with my own opinion, I think the banning on this book is completely appropriate due to the graphic nature
The first two verses have eight lines in. The last two verses have only seven lines in. The breaks in the poem are where it says “a rough boy told you how you were born. You kicked him, but stared at your parents, appalled, when you got back home.” Only the length of some of the lines makes a pattern. For example, the first verse starts with a short line then on the second line it gets longer and the third line is longer.
It can be expressed in two aspects, which are the behavior of children when they treat Margot, and their performance when they see the sun. In the first half of this short story, there are many details embody the rude behavior of children when they treat Margot. All people in Venus are trapped in this moist world that they become abnormal and hopeless, such as they always cry and refuse everything Margot said. In the sixth paragraph, it writes that after Margot read her poem “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour”, then one boy protested as “Aw, you didn’t write that”, which shows the impoliteness of children. Another sentence writes, when Margo describes the sun as a penny, the children refuse her and say, “You’re lying, you don’t remember!” (paragraph 12)with crying, which shows their rude behavior.
He is the one who introduces the concept of phoniness. It starts with Holden telling the readers that he was yet again being kicked out of another school, this time for failing four out of his five courses. Holden could easily pass, but he refuses to do the work. Pencey is a good school, but Holden can only focus on the phoniness of the school and the students. Pencey’s ad says that they have been “Molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men” (2).
There are pros and cons to states that decided to experiment raising the age. Every individual has the right to make their own choices. It shouldn't be the governments decision to decide if a child is to drop out or not. Raising the drop out age has had equally bad results as to good results. Students might want to drop out because they are struggling in school, getting bullied, have a health issue, have personal family problems, or just have a planned out future that doesn't require a high school diploma.
Margot is the quiet, invisible outcast who is easily pushed around by her peers because she does not stand up for herself. The other children do not like that she is different and has had different experiences than they have, like spending years in the sun. They feel confident blocking her out because they are in an invidious group. The bully, William, accosted Margot as she attempted to describe what the sun that she remembers from her time living in Ohio. He turns the class against her, saying that she is lying and imagining her description of the sun.
I was able to maintain a 3.8 GPA through everything but I was put on academic probation for my scholarships. The experience was traumatic one that I would never forget especially the mean people in the Juvenile Detention Center and mase. Upon returning to school she started again and we had an argument, we were suspended for 10 more days and token back to JDC for a campus disruption. Finally, I got kicked out which was the happiest day of my life; I was going to a much better place where I’d always wanted to go Lakewood High School. I wish I could’ve went to Lakewood as a freshmen and maybe I wouldn’t have been in so much trouble, which was definitely a learning experience.