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“People never notice anything” (9) states Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. The story is a monologue of Caulfield’s existence in a privileged society filled with “phonies” during the 1950s in New York City. Caulfield’s parents send him away to boarding school, which does not alter his cynical attitude towards life and prompts him to be extremely apathetic and fail out of multiple schools until he lands at Pencey Prep, where the story begins. The reader discovers that Caulfield is actually very troubled because of the death of his younger brother, which affects his attitude towards life causing him to disregard a life of affluence and conclude that it is empty, providing no comfort, as many believe money can. At one point in the story, Caulfield expresses that money, “…always ends up making you blue as hell” (133). After being expelled from Pencey Prep, for failing every class except English, he decides to venture into New York City before the letter detailing his expulsion reaches his parents. Caulfield embarks on a journey in search of what is missing in his life and what will ease his depressed state. Masking his feelings behind sarcasm and witty banter, Caulfield reaches desperation, as he stays awake night and day, drowning in his own misery while in search of what will make his life better.
This novel is brilliantly composed by Salinger, who examines the life of a teenager who feels lost and trapped inside an empty world. Whether it is his compulsive spending, apathy towards school, or even confusion with the opposite sex, Caulfield is a character that is so real, the reader feels as if he is a troubled friend who is in need of help. Because of his character and the conflicts he faces, Caulfield makes The Catcher in the Rye a timeless masterpiece. In an increasingly material world, the troubles of money and the search for what will bring true happiness is a more relevant theme than ever. Adolescents will always fin
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this is a super helpful training tool!! pretty easy to use-although some of the advanced features seem a bit tricky. I was going to get the new 110, but decided I did want more features. Very happy with my choice.
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Sleeve fits snuggly and the cover is great to protect your touch screen. Twenty bucks to protect your two-four hundred dollar iTouch? How is this a bad plan. Get one, you’ll not regret it!
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i bought this for my gf, she didnt like playign ps3 with me, she like mario and in general the games availible for wii. its fun, is very engaging, u need to physically interact with the unit. which can be more fun fore people. i adore my ps3, but im glad i could get her into gaming as well. it is totally affordable, and it made it here in two business days. so we are hapy, or she is happy which in tern makes me content kuz im happy with the ps3, its also cool that at her pad we got the wii, and at my pad the ps3 for blue rays and seriouse gaming with the boys, next step ….. she’s getting a samsung !
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I waited a long time to jump on the Apple bandwagon, and while the issue remains that I think it’s silly that I would need software (iTunes or something similar) to transfer music I already own on my computer to my iPod, when in all reality I should simply be able to drag and drop the files into their respective spots, I am THRILLED with this device! It does everything the Iphone does except make phone calls (and who wants to call someone when I can just text them or throw them an email from my iPod?) It was sent quickly, had a great price, and, after the hassle I went through with [...] (I will NEVER shop there again), Amazon’s headache-free shopping experience was JUST what I needed.
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Book: Artemis Fowl
Author: Eoin Colfer
By: Marshall Cartwright
Would you like to be a criminal mastermind? Well by the time he was thirteen Artemis was. Artemis beat chess champion Evan Kashogi on an online chess tournament with a prize of over 140,000 pounds, he forged a lot paintings that sold all around the world for almost 1 million pounds each, and was involved with the goblins population increase. Artemis also stole a substantial amount of gold from the Lower Elements Police. They are the fairy people.
Artemis now rules the criminal empire from California to Berlin.
But Artemis does not know what he is dealing with when he captures a fairy captain from the Lower Elements police. Then Artemis must overcome many other things that could lead to the end of his life. In the book Artemis fights wars with fairies and triumphs with trolls. As the fairy captain trys to get out of Artemis’s cages and traps, the fairies do all they can to stop Artmis, including trying to blow him up with a bomb.
You will love this book! It is breath taking and it will be like watching a movie from the details Eoin Colfer gives. After every chapter comes a cliff hanger and after every page you read comes a feeling like the book is telling you to read on.
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This is the third transcend card I have purchased. This one was for my Canon Rebel XSI. The others went into my Canon Camcorder and my Blackberry. All of them have been reliable and fast. At first, I gave Transcend a try based on their price, but now I would put their performance up against sandisk and the like.
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Like (probably) most folks who read this book, it was jammed down my throat as Required! Reading! in my Honors English class in High School (I guess they saved it for the Honors class because we were all Ivy-bound brilliants who wouldn’t be seduced into the gutter by all the naughty language and behavior depicted in the book).
Why?
Since when was rebellion for its own sake considered radical in the literary sense?
Reading this book was like getting stuck on the last commuter bus home next to a drunken, rambling teenager.
Its style may have been “radical” for its time, but it’s neither interesting nor particularly well-written. I have no idea why this is considered a “classic.”
To me, an example of a “classic” is something like Frank Herbert’s “Dune”–even though it was written back in the 60’s, before the lunar landing, it still remains an epic story in and of itself, even with the science fiction aspects removed. “Catcher” on the other hand is more of a period piece, and makes for boring reading, like most of the Bronte sisters’ works which we were also required to slog through (oooh, Edwardian social mores, and written by a WOMAN! How RADICAL and RELEVANT!! not….).
In short, this book for me sums up everything that’s wrong with the way that English-language literature is taught in school. No, we shouldn’t let kids read the funnies and the White Pages and call it literacy, but there has been enough new stuff in the past 40 years to push out some of the no-longer relevant stuff.