Holden example essay topic

Catcher in the Rye The setting of this story takes place in Agers town, Pennsylvania. The home of Pency boarding school. Pency is a college prep schools that advertises only the best things about it and never mentions how much the students will hate going there. On the brochure there is a fake, imaginary student that does not exist playing polo. In real life, there are a couple hundred spoiled little rich students whose parents do not want the trouble of raising them.

In the beginning of the story Holden is watching the Friday night football game from a hill. He had just gotten back from a fencing match that had to be cut short in New York because the captain of the fencing team, which happened to be Holden, left all of the equipment on the subway. Needless to say it was a long trip home for Holden. After all of this has happened Holden gets back only to learn that he has been released from Pency and placed on academic probation. Holden was not stupid by any means but if he did not desire to learn what was being taught he refused to try. The professors on the other hand did not agree with Holden's reasoning.

Therefore, he was failing all but one of his classes. Holden had a friend that was a teacher at Pency. He was probably the only person that halfway understood him. The only problem was that Mr. Spencer was old and senile and did not have much pull with in the school board, which meant he did not serve as much help in Holden's current situation. Mr. Spencer was always trying to prepare Holden for life. Holden rarely listened but felt obligated to say good-bye to him because he had tried to understand him, which is more than most people had ever done for him.

Holden went to visit Mr. Spencer before he left. Holden was a prime example of a spoiled little rich kid who had everything but acted as though he had nothing. He had no real friends to rely on, only other spoiled rich kids who were never deprived of anything. This time was different though.

This was not the first time that Holden was removed from a school. Holden always knew there was always another boarding school that would be happy to accept him and his money. This time he was not going to just sit back and wait for the next school to pick him up, he was going to enjoy himself while he could. He was scheduled to leave on Wednesday.

It was only Friday. The possibilities were endless on what could happen in those five days. While sitting in his dorm thinking about his next move in life his neighbor Akley came barging in through the curtain that separated the two rooms. Akley was quite a character.

He was the type of guy that only came over when you least wanted him too. He was not the most attractive guy you had ever seen either. When there was no one else around he was not such a bad guy but like Holden he did not like too many people there fore, he always had something to say about someone. Holden was sixteen and Akley was eighteen. He was also the type of guy who did not let you forget it if he was older than you were.

While Akley was there Holden's roommate Stradlater came barging in the front door. He immediately asked a favor of Holden. He wanted to barrow his hounds tooth jacket for a big date. Holden made him sweat for a while and then agreed. By this time Akley had left the room because not surprisingly he was not too fond of Stradlater. Stradlater had gone to the bathroom to get cleaned up and Holden followed to learn more about this big date he was off on.

When Holden learned that it was Jane Gallagher that he was taken out he was outraged. He did not want Stradlater to know he was outraged so he continued the conversation. He mentioned that he once knew her. Stradlater, uninterested just nodded and said, "oh really?" at this point Holden was about to explode with anger and jealousy.

He could not stand the thought of a "jerk like Stradlater" taking a respectful girl like Jane out. When Stradlater mentioned that the basketball coach offered to lend him his car for the night Holden lost it and threw a punch at Stradlater. He was quickly wrestled to the ground but he was satisfied knowing that he laid one on him. This is an "ok" book, only because I hate to read, but I would recommend in to most people because there is a lot of cussing and the sort. By, ... joey.