Catcher in the rye

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I have to write a six page paper on this book, and I am having difficulty in finding a topic which I could write six pages about. Does anybody have any suggestions of good topics, which would be easy to write six pages about?</p>

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<p>write about themes in the book:</p>

<p>-growing up
-phoniness
-etc.</p>

<p>I'm sure you can provide citations and elaborate enough to cover the six pages.</p>

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<p>ha yea phoniness</p>

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<p>yeah phoniness, excellent one
by the way, that was a great book</p>

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<p>Not
Yeah phoniss</p>

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<p>Yeah the other night I wrote a four-page paper exploring Holden's relationships with different people and different types of people and how they affect his life...</p>

<p>Possibly try that?</p>

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<p>so you guys got to read the book in class?
that'd be pretty fun</p>

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<p>I'm going to write about phoniness, and how it represents all the ugliness and lies of adults, which is why Holden is trying to avoid growing up. Then at the end how he realizes that there are no places where you can escape phoniness and ugliness (realizes in the mummy's tomb where he sees **** you graffitted). </p>

<p>We didn't get to read it in class, but got to choose a book to write a paper on from a list of about 100.</p>

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<p>I don't know if you could develop this enough for six pages, but something about protection and shielding of children and growing up and the irony of attempts to ban the book might be interesting to try.</p>

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<p>Holden's name?
-Hold+on Caul (covers a baby at birth) + field (the catcher in the rye FIELD)
-Yep, phoniness is cool</p>

<p>If I were writing a paper about CITR, I'd compare Holden to Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver(no one in my grade has seen it, but excellent movie). That would be a very interesting paper to read, but you probably can't do that =(</p>

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<p>betrayal could be a nice theme to develop in a paper</p>

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<p>try self-hate or irony. like how holden complains about phony people and then lies constantly (the very definition of phoniness). the book has a gazilion examples of that.</p>

<p>btw Edwardz: wow, I never realized the "caul" part thats really cool. I always thought the field had something to do with the book but I never realized the rest. Very good!</p>

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<p>Comparing Holden and Huckleberry Finn would make a good paper.</p>

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<p>you can compare CITR to the song "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkle. I swear to God, it'd work. lol</p>