The Catcher in the Rye Mixed Tape Project 1. Unwell by Matchbox 20 This song is significant because the character in the song talks about not having a lot of friends and also talks about being an outcast. All of these things describe Holden and reflect his personality, since he finds it hard to make friends with others because he sees them all as being “phony.” Important lyrics: “Making friends with shadows on the wall” “I’m talking to myself in public, dodging glances on the train” 2. Talk by Coldplay In this song, the lead singer is describing how after a drug addiction he moved to a different city to start a new life. This is like Holden because after being kicked out of school, he went to the city to figure out what to do next.
Dill is curious, enigmatic and insecure. Unlike the Finch children he feels unwanted until they welcome him under their wing. Dill talks of his stepfather and mother as well off people who show him the sights of the urbanised area that they live in. In reality this is not what the picture is with Dill and his parents. They don't want him and he is passed from relative to relative in an attempt to be rid of him for some time.
He later says how "I was not enthusiastic about his visit.... A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to” (100). Upon the arrival of his wife’s friend, the husband is ultimately uncomfortable around Robert because he does not know how to communicate with or act around him. His discomfort is revealed when Robert and his wife were sharing their experiences “about the major things that had come to pass for them in the past ten years” (100). He felt it was necessary to join in because he thought Robert would “think [he] left the room and didn’t want [his wife] to think [he] was feeling left out” (103). It is obvious the husband is overly involved with Robert’s handicap and fails to see him as a person with his
“Allal” is the story of a boy who is shunned by society, which he had to face very day as the “son of sin” (Bowles 1). Walking through streets and being insulted by everyone. Son of sin is phrase that was repeated many times throughout the short story. His mother was not a sin, but his father might have been it. His mother was told to go home to Marrakech and leave her son.
In contrary to Steinbeck, Carver conveys general isolation and misery as a result of this economic hardship. From his short story “Neighbors”, “He knew he should hang up now, but it was good to hear a voice” (Carver 32). “When he returned to the telephone he was half afraid she might be off the line” (Carver 33). “Do you think we could meet somewhere we could talk? Just for a few minutes?” (Carver 33).
Literary Analysis of Conflicts within “Soldier’s Home” Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is a short story about one man’s struggle with returning home after war. Harold Krebs had just returned home, later than the majority of the soldiers, resulting in a dull welcoming from his town. In order to be heard, Krebs lies about his war experience through elaborated stories. Even though Krebs is home, he is lost- lost in society, lost with love, lost within himself. Although Hemingway does not describe much about what Krebs experienced during the war, it is obvious that this man went through a transformation, and returned with what an outsider looking in would call extreme apathy.
George is a migrant worker who is very lost in his loneliness, willing to accept any sort of companionship and friendship he can find. He firstly illustrates his thoughts on loneliness at the very beginning of the novel while talking to Lennie ‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world’ he then goes on to narrate how it is with himself and Lennie ‘With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us’ Steinbeck shows us that George understands that Lennie provides him a life without loneliness and when Lennie threatens to go away ‘If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.’ To which George quickly and desperately responds with bribes and promises to keep his friend with him, ‘No – look!
Families that choose to migrate to another country in search of better employment or just safety usually grow closer. The Kite Runner, A novel by Khalid Hussein shows the various difficulties a family of just two faces when they moved to America. At the start of the book the author portrays Amir and his father Baba having an unhealthy relationship .Amir a young boy who wants a little appreciation from his father .Baba on the other hand think his son is weak and is not capable of being what he intends his son on being. We see Amir ready to do anything just to get his father’s approval“No,Baba jan,”I said desperately wishing I did .I didn’t want to disappoint him again”(Khaled Hosseini,21). But as we progress through the book we see that due to the unstable political conditions in Afghanistan (The home country of Amir and Baba) Baba and Amir decide to migrate.Baba who, was once a respectable person with a decent amount of wealth in his home country now works in a Gas station in America.
Therefore he is constantly seeking his dad’s approval: “Yes”, said the boy forcing himself to acknowledge Jim’s kindness and affirmation. But Jim is not his dad.” Here it is obvious that it’s only the dad’s approval and confirmation that he is good enough for his dad. He is general a weak minded boy and is easily influenced by others i.e. when he is finally leaving for the trip he doesn’t really want to go because his mother has repeatedly expressed how bad an idea the trip is and so forth. The boy and the father’s relationship is quite self-conflicting as both parties are scared of loosing each other but they are also scared of committing to each other.
The Point is Not Terror There is much debate on whether “My Papa’s Waltz,” written by Theodore Roethke in 1948, is a child screaming out in cries of abuse or a child remembering a moment with his father. The poem goes back and forth using both positive descriptive words, “then waltz me off to bed,” and abusive descriptive words, “but I hung on like death.” The speaker of this poem is the son as he is describing an evening playing with his father after a long day of work. There are several critics that take sides to this poem but one in particular took it to the extreme. Ciardi gives examples of how the line and word usage Roethke uses conveys to as abuse. In John Ciardi book, How does a Poem Mean published in 1956, takes the meaning of this poem to the severity by saying Roethke wrote this out of terror but Ciardi lacks to understand of Roethke’s childhood, different uses and metaphors, Roethke’s relationship with his father, Otto.