He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career. He also meets a girl called Alex who he starts to develop feelings for however this shadow of hope that entered his life soon disappears, as he is portrayed by Wink
Will Grayson II was supposed to meet up with his online friend Isaac. He had been instant messaging Issac every day for an entire year, and he had begun to fall in love with him. Upon arriving at their designated meeting place, Will Grayson II soon realizes Isaac is not there. He then gets a call from Maura, telling him that she had been pretending to be Isaac all along as a cruel joke, and that he didn’t really exist. The two Will Graysons sit outside on a bench, Will Grayson II in complete devastated shock.
He let go of a girl he used to like, got in a fight with his roommate, and got kicked out of yet another school. Either this or the fact that Holden can’t really connect with anybody would make him feel like this. He feels although he’s living amongst “phony” people and can’t really talk to anyone. He feels very depressed while at Pency because of his inability to connect with anyone there, or because he’s being kicked out and will miss it. Holden decides to stay at a hotel instead where he can relax and not have to deal with anyone at Percy anymore.
Holden was bored and wide awake in his hotel room in New York. Holden decided to go to the bar and hang out but in the elevator the worker offers him a prostitute, Holden decided that he should so he talked his way into something he did not really want. Even today these two things that Holden got into are unacceptable, a minor smoking and buying a prostitute. The reader knows that The Catcher in the Rye is for a younger but mature audience because of how Holden acts throughout this book. The reason for this thesis is because of how he acts and the decisions or situations could be taken the wrong way
Three relationships expressed in Lone Star are ones that seem problematic due work complications, parents that are forbidding a relationship, and the affair everyone knows about. One problematic relationship is between army soldier, Cliff, and army officer Pricilla Worth. This relationship has two issues: commitment and interracial. The commitment problem of this relationship has to do with Priscilla, who does not want to get married because she fears that she or Cliff may be transferred to a different post. The couple discuss this problem while at a country and western bar.
The once happily married couple’s marriage is falling apart because of Emily’s alcoholism. Emily tries to hide her drinking from Martin but her efforts fail. Her drinking habits are wearing the family down physically and mentally. The opening paragraph begins with Martin’s bus ride home. From the bus ride there is a lot of symbolism that suggests his mood is changing for the worse.
So that was out.” (Pg.59) He avoided all contact with his parents. Holden becomes so lonely that he tries to interact with anyone within his reach. He even asks a cab driver if he would “care to stop on the way” and join him for a cocktail (pg.60) Holden has alienated himself for such a prolonged amount of time that it has driven him into somewhat of a state of depersonalization. Instead of getting the support from the people close to him, he uses strangers to socialize with because he thinks they wont judge him as they are unknowing of his troubles. Holden has tried setting up rules for himself like “Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls… I broke it though, the same week I made it” (pg.63) Holden cant maintain even his own made up rules.
Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive. One of the major conflicts of the novel is Paul deciding if it's better to be more human or subdue his emotions to live. For example, in chapter nine after Paul is able to leave the hole he shared with Gerard Duval, he quickly returns to his normal self. His lack of emotion is vital to his survival because if he had been overly emotional after Duval's death he probably wouldn't have survived the shell fire in the next chapter. Even when he went home Paul had to pretend that the war wasn't so bad
Up to this chapter Christopher’s story had began to fade out and It had hit a dead end. This chapter is more of a ‘get out jail free card’ than an actual planned chapter. We get to find more out about Christopher’s condition in this chapter too and how insecure and scared he is about meeting or talking to new people. When he first meets Mrs Alexander he tries to ignore here because he cant do ‘chat’ and describes it as ‘boring’. Like I said before, this chapter is mainly to bring the story back to life.
The Catcher in the Rye, a novel by J.D Salinger, and Into the Wild, a non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer, are two works that prove my opinion of Emerson’s quote. In The Catcher in the Rye, a young man named Holden writes about a portion of his life. He is constantly telling how bad his life is and how lonely he feels. When he is alone he feels sad and wants to die but when he is in the company of his family his mood changes. “You don’t like anything that’s happening”… “I like Allie and I like doing what I’m doing right now.