The Catcher In The Rye Essays (572 words) - Literary Realism

The Catcher In The Rye The Catcher in the Rye ?The Catcher in the Rye? highlights the value of innocence. Holden is a teenage boy who finds himself caught between the corruptedness of growing up, and the beauty of staying innocent. Holden's relationship with Phoebe is unparrallel to his relationship with anybody else. She is the most innocent and pure person to him because he understands her, and she too loves him. Holden's desire to be a ?Catcher in the Rye? explains his wanting to protect innocence. To catch those who are innocent before they fall ( or grow up) into corruption and adulthood. Holden's attitude toward the adult world derrives from what he sees people selling out on from his eyes. He notices the way people unfairly treat each other and feels that they are fake. To make matters worse he finds himself staying in New York for a few days long enough to evaluate the type of people he dispises and to appreciate the people he loves. Phoebe is Holden's young sister. They have a close connection and love eachother very much. She is young but in Holden's eyes she is much more intellgent than people her age. She is straightforward and honest. Holden feels that he can talk to her without getting a phony response from her and is fascinated with her personality and in turn wants to protect her from the world that he knows as being corrupt. There is a point when she wants to run away with him but he doesnt allow it. As she insists he screams at her and hurts her feelings, causing her to get angry and begin to ignore him. As time passes they find themselves in a zoo and talking. This shows the close relationship that they have. Also she symbolizes the very thing that is trying to preserve in everything when he notices how innocent she looks having fun on the Caroussel. Holden's desire to be a ?Catcher in the Rye? comes from his wanting to preserve and protect the innocence that children have just like a Catcher protects children from falling off a cliff . He feels that this innocence is very valuble and shouldnt be tampered with or even stolen by the cruelties and dirtiness of the adult world which he has seen. He tries to protect people like Jane Gallagher and Phoebe by not telling Phoebe anything harsh, or by not calling Jane Gallagher for fear that she might have changed. Holden resents the adult world for being fake and insensitive to other people. Its a world of selfishness and un- authentic behaviors that Holden finds disgusting. He sees all the phony people who treat people according to status, or looks. He notices hypocrits and liars. Whats funny is that he himself is a liar, he admitts it and is in a sense proud of it . He lies to amuse himself which brings me to think that he is already growing up and loosing his innocence without even knowing it. ?The Catcher in the Rye? points out alot of things in every day life that people disregard or simply dont notice because they are too involved in their own affairs. The world just appears to be a big lie in the eyes of Holden Caulfield and as a Catcher, wants to stop it from sucking in the pure. Phoniness always wins in the end which is deppressing. I can honestly say that although I didnt like the book all that much, I did realize that I share alot of Holden's views. I think I would be naive if I didnt. Book Reports

Chem Essay

Chem Essay Chem Essay All matter is made up of atoms. An atom is like a tiny solar system. In the center of the atom is the nucleus which is a cluster of protons and neutrons. The protons have a positive electric charge while the neutrons are electrically neutral. The nucleus makes up almost all of an atom's mass or weight. Whirling at fantastic speeds around the nucleus are smaller and lighter particles called electrons which have a negative electric charge. . The protons have a positive electric charge while the neutrons are electrically neutral. The nucleus makes up almost all of an atom's mass or weight. Whirling at fantastic speeds around the nucleus are smaller and lighter particles called electrons which have a negative electric charge. An atom has the same number of electrons with positive charge and negative charge. An extremely powerful force, called the nuclear force, holds the protons together in the nucleus as they naturally repelled one another electrically. The atoms of each chemica l element have a different nucleus. An atom of hydrogen has one proton and no neutrons. An atom of nitrogen has 7 protons and 7 neutrons. Heavy elements have a large number of protons and neutrons. For example, the most common isotope of uranium, uranium-238 has 92 protons and 146 neutrons in its nucleus. Protons are positively charged and so would be deflected on a curving path towards the negative plate. Electrons are negatively charged and so would be deflected on a curving path towards the positive plate. Neutrons don't have a charge, and so would continue on in a straight line. Isotopes are atoms which have the same atomic number but different mass numbers. They have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. The electrons are found at considerable distances from the nucleus in a series of levels called energy levels. Each energy level can only hold a certain number of electrons. Atomic theory, first put in a quantitative conceptual framework by Joh n Dalton, and quantum theory, which emerged in the 1920s as a result of the work of Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrà ¶dinger, and Max Planck, are the cornerstones of our present-day view on atomic structure. Atomic theory holds that matter consists of vast numbers of small particles called atoms which combine together to form molecules existing in the three main states of matter as gases, liquids or solids. Thomson's experiments led him to propose a "plum-pudding" view of the atom in which a continuous distribution of positive mass extends over the size of the atom with negative "plums" of much smaller mass (i.e. electrons) inserted into it. This model was overthrown by a series of alpha particle scattering experiments carried out by Rutherford, Hans Geiger and Ernest Madden. They were able to observe back-scattering of alpha particles emitted by a piece of radium as they were being shot through a thin gold foil. The fact that alpha particles are positive and that some of them were s cattered back could only be explained by proposing that the positive charge and mass in the gold atoms making up the foil could not be continuous and had to be concentrated in a very small region and that the negative region had to be large enough to let some alpha particles through. This led to a view of the atom in which the positive nucleus is central, very dense and significantly smaller than the size of the overall atom. Modern neutron scattering experiments have shown that the radius of a nucleus is proportional to the cubic root of its mass number and that atomic radii, including electron clouds, are about twenty thousand times bigger with a spherical shape or elongated like a football. The view that electrons can be thought of as being arranged in successive shells of increasing energy around the nucleus is called the Bohr model of the atom and one of the most significant contributions of quantum theory has been to show that these energy levels are quantized. This led t o the orbital