Holden’s Chase for Childhood

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Andrew Silva Mr. Graham English 2 12-18-18 Holden's Chase for Childhood The best thing about being a child is that you do not have to really worry about someone because they cannot get you it trouble. Furthermore, you do not have responsibilities as a child because parents will not depend on you too get things done. But, when you grow up, everything changes. Holden is searching for his lost childhood by doing things that make him think of the good old days, when it was just D.B, Allie and Phoebe living in their childhood home, but Holden is growing up and will never find it. In Holden's mind, the world wants children to grow up fast without experiencing childhood, which he wants to prevent.Certain things they should stay the way they are.

You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway(136). Holden wants everything to stay the same, so the world will be happy. He wants children to stay young and innocent forever.Holden looks at the world different from others. He sees the real, the phony, the bastards, the phony bastards. But, he wants to be with children that has the same point of view as him. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it when a kid's nice and polite when you tighten their skate for them or something.

Most kids are(133).To Holden being an adult is not something little innocent children should look up to. They should having fun at the museum, and roller skating through the park, or going to meet their friends. Holden loves when kids are nice and polite because most adults, are phony or even phony-bastards. Holden encourages children stay young forever but yet, he knows that sooner or later the kids will grow into adults. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around nobody big, I mean except me.

And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them(191). Kids need to have fun because that is what childhood is supposed to be. Holden would start to catch those who want to be all grown up, then he will try to bring them back to being innocent. Holden wants the kids to be bottled up in a fantasy were the only boss would be him, and he would want them to stay happy like he was when he was little.

Even though Holden knows that he is being unrealistic because he cannot keep kids bottled up forever. Holden wants everything to go back the way it was when his family was close and loving, but he can't turn back the clock, which makes his dream unrealistic. "I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all(191). Holden is more attached to the past while everybody close to him has moved on.

Conclusion

He is also lost piece of heart when his brother died when he was younger. Also, anyway he can act will still get him sent out by his parents to another school somewhere far or even boarding school like they said. Well...they'll be pretty irritated about it, They really will. This is the fourth school I've gone too. I shook my head(11). Holden just wants his parents to love him and open up to him so, he could tell them how he is feeling because something is bothering him. He knows that he continues to do the wrong thing because he wants to come home to his family without being criticized for his actions. No he won't. The worst he'll do, he'll give me hell again, and then he'll send me to the goddam military school(184). Holden knows what is going to happen after he wants to be a Catcher in The Rye. Lastly, Holden wants to move away to the woods because the believe nobody will care for him.

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