Catcher In The Rye Carousel Scene Essay
For my project I chose to draw a picture that I thought was the most important in the book. I chose the carousel scene. In this scene Phoebe is angry with Holden because he suggests that he is going to running away somewhere. They end up by the carousel and Holden asks her if she wants to ride it, and to also give her dough back. Holden watches her go around and around on the carousel and analyses how it this moment felt. When she come back from riding on the carousel he give her more dough to go on another ride. She’s then asks him if he really is going to stay with which holden decides he's going to. She gives him a kiss as it starts to rain she pulls out his hunting cap from his pocket and puts it on his head. As she goes back on the carousel, Holden has sudden emotion toward watching Phoebe look so nice riding the carousel. Throughout the story, Holden shows a rollercoaster of emotion. His feeling change from one thing to the next, from being happy to sad to depressed to excited. This can lead him to be a little unreliable. He does his actions based on how he feels.
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He can’t face reality and yet he believes that he could be in a such a position to be saving others.Which is why I think the moral of this story is to help those who are innocent from seeing how cruel the real world is. Don’t shelter them entirely, but just raise them to understand the world. He feels this towards all the people he speaks highly of. When he remembers Jane, he seems distraught thinking about her being sexually taken advantage of by her sep father and Stradlater. Also, when Holden started to feel like he was going to disappear he started talking to Allie. All because he felt vulnerable, innocent.]Holden himself still has innocence by struggling to find himself and deciding from right to wrong. Although, when it come to the innocence of other, he will stop at nothing to protect
He can’t face reality and yet he believes that he could be in a such a position to be saving others.Which is why I think the moral of this story is to help those who are innocent from seeing how cruel the real world is. Don’t shelter them entirely, but just raise them to understand the world. He feels this towards all the people he speaks highly of. When he remembers Jane, he seems distraught thinking about her being sexually taken advantage of by her sep father and Stradlater. Also, when Holden started to feel like he was going to disappear he started talking to Allie. All because he felt vulnerable, innocent.]Holden himself still has innocence by struggling to find himself and deciding from right to wrong. Although, when it come to the innocence of other, he will stop at nothing to protect