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The Catcher in the Rye//** – Project Controlling Ideas

**One from Mr. Perkins:**


 * Holden, the best advice I can give you on navigating and surviving these trying times is to try to know and be true to yourself. Having lost Allie, the freedoms and responsibilities that come with growing up have become that much more challenging. At a time when you need support, you have faced more and more people who are trying to discover their 'public selves,' often coming across to you as 'phony.' While you should certainly continue to 'call out' the hypocrisy of the adult world, try to be forgiving as you yourself are also working on the difficult balance of being true to oneself while also being able to protect yourself in public. Analyze and evaluate your own experiences, then choose to spend real and quality time around the people with whom you trust and **** in whose company you **** might come to terms with Allie's death. Avoid those recent experiences that have seemed attractive, but turned out to be dangerous and depressing dead ends. And finally, realize that those innocent children that you wish to catch as they dangerously run through the rye cannot be saved if you cannot save yourself. Regardless of what you may now think of him, Mr. Antonelli's words still ring true, " **** The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” **

    
 * Mr. Perkins’ Sample Letter Introduction **
 * MAIN IDEA **
 * Holden, the best advice I can give you on navigating and surviving these trying times is to try to know and be true to yourself. Having lost Allie, the freedoms and responsibilities that come with growing up have become that much more challenging. **
 * SUPPORTING IDEA #1 **
 * At a time when you need support, you have faced more and more people who are trying to discover their 'public selves,' often coming across to you as 'phony.' While you should certainly continue to 'call out' the hypocrisy of the adult world, try to be forgiving as you yourself are also working on the difficult balance of being true to oneself while also being able to protect yourself in public. **
 * SUPPORTING IDEA #2 **
 * Analyze and evaluate your own experiences, then choose to spend real and quality time around the people with whom you trust and in whose company you might come to terms with Allie's death. **
 * SUPPORTING IDEA #3 **
 * Avoid those recent experiences that have seemed attractive, but turned out to be dangerous and depressing dead ends. **
 * SUPPORTING IDEA #4 **
 * And finally, realize that those innocent children that you wish to catch as they dangerously run through the rye cannot be saved if you cannot save yourself. Regardless of what you may now think of him, Mr. Antonelli's words still ring true, " The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">

Period 6

Thesis: Holden is hung up on the obstacles of life, which have been intensified due to the death of his brother. If he just powers through the pain, eventually everything will be okay. Thesis: Don’t take out your personal/emotional problems out on the world. Learn to take each hardship as an experience and grow from it. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Thesis: An inevitable part of life is that everyone must take their first tentative steps onto the path of adulthood. Holden would tell his younger self not to be so cynical and that the world is horribly corrupted but that you just have to learn to accept the world as it is. Thesis: Stop being such a pessimist and start living life. Stop looking at the negatives and start looking at the positives. Life isn’t all that bad. Thesis: As you age, wisdom comes from experience. You will learn from your experiences, good and bad. This letter will impart to you some wisdom from my age so you will not need go through some of your bad experiences. Thesis: Life is unfair so you need to learn to accept it. Horrible things will happen so you have to get over it rather than hating the world. Thesis: It may seem difficult navigating your way through life, interacting with different types of people whose point of views you do not understand, but you will learn along the journey how best to face adversity. You will eventually find where you belong despite the mishaps and hardships you are almost guaranteed to encounter. One of these such traumas is the death of your brother. Allie passed away at a time in your life when you were on the brink of gaining independence from your family. This makes coping with his disappearance that much harder; you are seeking to reach out to friends, yet they cannot understand your situation as well as your family might.

White, P.G. "Experiencing the Death of a Sibling as an Adolescent." //The Sibling Connection//. 2009. P.G. White, Ph.D, Web. 21 Jan 2010. <http://www.counselingstlouis.net/page13.html>.

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