"Anyway, I kept walking around the room, waiting for this prostitute to show up.I kept hoping she'd be good-looking. I didn't care too much, though. I sort of just wanted to get it over with." Page 93
Considering that I think this book should be banned, this chapter talked about Holden being able to get a prostitute in his room at the age of 16. I feel that parents would not support this issue of a prostitute in general, and the fact that he is underage. Being as young as he is, he said in the book that he wanted experience so when he gets married he will be ready. If you really think about it, parents feel that sex should be waited until marriage. And giving up his virginity to a prostitute shows teens who read this book, that it is okay to have sex with anybody.Prostitution is viewed as bad because the notion of sex workers is taboo in our society and also there is also the problem of spreading sexually transmitted diseases.
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Shadora Grate
4/15/2013 05:20:33 am
“What I really felt like doing was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window,” Page 104
If religious people were to read this page of the book, thoughts would be that committing suicide will make you go straight to hell. Suicide is not only selfish, but unspeakably cruel to the people you leave behind.The pain of losing someone to suicide is unimaginably, excruciatingly painful. For the fact that Holden has suicidal thoughts is not something that should be read in the book, teens will think that it is okay to have suicide thoughts that they could feel that they can kill themselves as well.
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Shadora Grate
4/15/2013 05:43:49 am
"Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will." Page 141
Holden shows his self-destructive side, which is shown in many parts of the book.At the same time he fears his own mortality.Holden expresses a death wish his anger towards how much his brother D.B. lost by fighting in the war. Holden is depressed and this book gives examples and makes teens who are going through the same depressing stage.Teens that feel as though they are worthless, or good for nothing, feel as though they have nothing to live for. As a teen such this can easily be developing addiction and self harming habits.
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Shadora Grate
4/15/2013 05:55:13 am
"Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody." page 145
Charlie, in the book "Perk of being a wallflower'', is a very deep writer. Unlike Holden, he sticks to one specific issue, and really openly fleshes it out, swimming into what he thinks of it. The things he states get you thinking. He thinks of others, and how they feel, and what they will feel in the future. Unlike Holden, he is very repetitive and can't decide what he wants to tell about very often. He also is always negative about his life.
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Shadora Grate
4/15/2013 06:08:28 am
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” Page 8 "Catcher in the Rye"
"After telling Bill about my life, I asked him about his. It was nice, too, because he didn't try to be cool and relate to me or anything. He was just himself about it." Page 107 "Perks of being a wallflower"
Holden doesn't take other people's advice or respect the fact that they're trying to genuinely help him. Charlie appreciate Bill's support, but Holden doesn't appreciate Mr. Spencer's or Mr. Antolini's help, even though they both try to help him. Charlie keeps in mind what people say to him. He thinks about it, but Holden does not. Holden seems to have more of a narrow-minded view of the world, but his pain is real. Holden just does not understand that people are trying to help him, and he can not take anything for consideration when people do talk to him, he always seems to be stubborn and ungrateful. As for Charlie who appreciates and understands what is trying to be said.
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