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Each day, someone seems to lose his or her purity due to a seminal second that adjustments his or her life forever. This concept of shed innocence is definitely represented in both the story The Heurter in the Rye and the film Rebel Without a Cause. Protagonists Holden Caulfield and Sean Stark strive to preserve the innocence more in order to protect them from the uncertainty they discover every day in the real world. Similarly, both remarkably developed heroes take on the role of protecting an individual they maintain immensely.
In Rebel Without a Trigger, Jim befriends a boy named Plato who have trouble fitted in with the other teens at all their school. If the two friends and Judy go to an abandoned mansion late at nighttime, Plato brings and stocks and shares his perception that his parents include completely players him aside. It is noticeable to Rick that his friend can be beginning to see the actual colors on the planet, so he steps in to try and preserve his friend’s chasteness as long as he can. He and Judy imagine to be a few who will be looking at the mansion in hopes of any new label them and their kids. Plato starts off by pretending to be real estate broker, yet quickly switches to laying out their child when Sean starts operating as a parent figure to him. Simply by acting just like a father to to his friend, Sean is allowing him to have the youngsters Plato is definitely afraid this individual has already shed. However , in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden talks with his little sis Phoebe about what he desires to be, the player behind home plate in the rye. He explains what meaning when he says “what I have to do, I must catch everybody if they start to check out the cliff” (Salinger 173). The “cliff” Holden is referring to may be the seminal moment in which innocence is lost. He desires to “catch” or perhaps shield them from “[going] over” or perhaps growing up. Holden is aware of what it’s like to fall off the cliff and see the particular world is actually like, so he desires to keep them happy and oblivious in the metaphorical cliff they are constantly nearing.
Holden and Jim share the belief that almost all grown-ups are phonies because they will no longer have the innocence that used to make them comfortable in their own skin. Over the Catcher in the Rye, Holden is constantly applying this term to negatively refer to many adults he activities. While speaking about parents and people of high status, such as priests, he says “I don’t understand why the hell that they can’t talk within their natural tone. They sound so artificial when they talk” (Salinger 100). He is trying to say that folks who don’t “talk in their normal voice” happen to be unauthentic and intensely fake. The reason why Holden would like to preserve the innocence of others is so that they don’t have to hide themselves using a phony id. Instead of convinced that all those who have shed innocence will be phonies, John just simply feels that they make phony reasons for their own behavior. The moment trying to clear to his parent’s regarding his involvement of the loss of life of Buzz, his mother reluctantly says that they are going to move again. Jim attempts to explain that their cannot just back off from the function because your woman doesnt want to deal with it. He cell phone calls her out on her actions and says that she’s always using any fake excuse the girl can find to move instead of facing the problem at hand. She denies it again which does not surprise John because he knows that grown-ups will be unauthentic and can use any reason they will think of to get out of their particular problems.
In both equally narratives, we have a reoccurring theme of the color green representing innocence and the color red addressing maturity. Toward the end from the Catcher in the Rye, Holden takes Phoebe to a slide carousel so she can make an effort to grab to get the gold rings. He watches her go around and around on the wooden horses and says “my crimson hunting cap really offered me quite a lot of safety, in a way” and that inch[Phoebe] just appeared so really nicein her blue layer and all” (Salinger 212-213). Right before this, Phoebe sets the loath on Holden’s head to maintain him secure and because she is not all set to wear it but. When he recognizes her in this blue peacoat, Holden is aware he’s correctly kept her safe. The red hunting hat he wears signifies his maturity and gives him “protection” or reassurance that for now, Phoebe still has her innocence. When ever Plato can be shot by the police in Rebel Without a Cause, Rick stays around his friend’s lifeless physique in sadness. He moves Plato’s trousers up thus he can check out his mismatched socks, you are red and one is green. The different colored socks indicate that Avenirse wanted to truly feel mature, but he wasnt ready to give up his harmless youth. Having been also wearing his friend’s red jacket at the time, which was his attempt for showing having been mature just like his friend. Before the law enforcement carry his body away, Jim whines and zips up his red coating that is upon Plato. He is upset because he feels like this individual has failed his friend by not being able to preserve his chasteness. Jim made a decision to let Bandeja keep the clothing because he got lost his innocence and seen the world for what it truly is right before his death, he earned this.
Although Jim and Holden usually do not attempt to associated with mature turn into innocent again, it is because that they know lost innocence are not able to ever be found. Preserving the youth from the people they will care about before they lose it is the way they tackle this challenge head on. Though innocence are unable to last forever, both of these characters need to shield others from the harsh facts of the world to get as long as they can in order to make the world a better place.
