The Catcher in the Rye Statements
Make up time:
Identify the statement that you are going to argue, and be thorough. Spell check as well.
posted by belag at Monday, December 19, 2005
Monday, December 19, 2005
Identify the statement that you are going to argue, and be thorough. Spell check as well.
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Tuesday, 27 December, 2005
The character of Holden Caulfield gives a proof that family is the key to every well-being:
OK everyone, you are all well past this stage, but I was doing some digging on this incredibly hot summer day and I ran into this question, I have been wondering about a bit. I haven't read the book, but I can relate to this problem. Family... How does family work in this modern society of ours??? The parents (in most cases) are too busy to hang around, the way that this world is progressing (always working and all that jazz). As the time passes, the kids learn they can't lean on their parents cuz they're never there to start with. They stop trusting their parents and they either keep things inside or share with a friend. Either way, things go haywire. The kids bottles things up and just breaks down some day, or develops split personality, or becomes excessively violent, or in most cases with girs-develpos anorexia and bulemia. Then starts getting high and ends up as a heroine addict. OK, another scenario: the girl confides to a best friend and the two develop a special relationship-they create a little world of their own, quirky in its own way. Let's say this "quirk" isn't as pinky as one would hope-both kids go down that road, trhey won't let anyone in, so they suffer together. The parents don't even have the slightest idea what's going on in the kids head, and one day, out of the blue, their perfectly happy kid commits suicide in the most vial way. Then the whole thing starts unravelling and the parents realize their kid would have been a lot happier if it had parents who were there instead a pile of money they were never even able to spend in the first place. So once again, how does family work in this world we live in? In a world where noone cares about anything but money, how can one hold the family toghether???
Just for the record, I am aware just how pessimistic this just was. What made me think of this was a movie I watched, inspired by a true event. A tale about high school violence that unfolds on an ordinary school day, inside an American high school, filled with schoolwork, football, gossip and socializing. The movie starts as a car has a hard time driving straight down the road in a residential area. We think some kid has stolen this car. Nah. It's the dad driving his son to school, and he's drunk. The teenage son must take over. So, adults give up all responsibility towards their children and mayhem can take place. The film shows one day in the life of several teenage students as they go in and out of classes. They live their student lives and we follow their steps through the corridors and doors, taking them as guides one by one, like avatars in a giant video game. "Elephant" is a film about a normal day in high school that ends in a Columbine-esque massacre. We become observers of the events that happen throughout the day, as the film is filled with long tracking shots of students going out of and into classes, the cafeteria, the gym, or the library. The characters in the film are mostly played by non-actors, and most of the film is improvised. Frankly, the flim is a bit boring, but realistic as hell. THIS HAPPENS! I think I wrote about this already: busy parents, and a frustrated confused kid, bullied by just about everyone in the whole school for just being not good looking. He develops this fantasy that he has to kill everyone, adn with nobody to talk him back on track, he actually goes through with it.
So how does family work in this society??? Family is SUPPOSED to be the source of love, a shelter we all come back to at the end of a day, but it just turns out that there's no time for love, and everyone ends up suffering because of our overly busy shedules.
All that proves just how much we need the support of our families. We're all weak without them, we cannot functn properly without their support and love. It's a big effort, I agree, but when you sum it up, it pays out.
Friday, 23 June, 2006
That was Tessa btw :D
Friday, 23 June, 2006
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