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SOMEONE HELP plz!!

 

danielle l #51658
Jan 02, 2008 11:15 PM

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SOMEONE HELP plz!!

i need one example for each of these...
they have to do with/be about Holden
1. A moral excellence (positive or a negative moral)
2. A group that work together to help holden (in a good or bad way)
3. A set of moral rules Holden has (positive or negative)
4. Valor (strength or courage to follow through with something courageous)
5. Potency (a capacity to act but not follow through)
6. Purity (something pure about Holden)

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tracey c #171707
Dec 18, 2011 8:09 PM

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The narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an adolescent obsessed with saving children from the dirtiness he sees in the adult world.

What Holden thinks he likes about youth is just his idealized notion of what children are like. He's not in love with childhood; he's in love with a fantasy.

The more Holden connects to other people in The Catcher in the Rye, the more depressed he becomes. Here are just a few examples.

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