Essay on Catcher

Have you ever seen someone strange? Strange enough, in fact, to chill you to your bones, and boil your blood all at once? I haven’t seen someone like this, but I have read about someone like this. In the fantastic story “The Ratcatcher” by Roald Dahl I will ‘travel’ down into the depths of the […]

The Catcher in the RyeAnalysisTask 1- “I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don’t honestly know what kind…. It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have […]

CATCHER IN THE RYE QUESTIONS: 1. The novel can be described as a bildungsroman genre, in other words, a rite of passage novel. In what way does Holden experience a rite of passage? The rite of passage experienced by Holden in the text involves the original identity of Holden: a typical representation of the angst […]

Kesey’s renowned novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is a tale of self actualization under manipulation and deceit of institutions and repression. Though the novel may be original in it’s setting and characters, the origin of the plot is one as old as time. Many parallels can be drawn from Kesey’s piece to others […]