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PART 1

1.The first step in developing a thesis statement is to identify a topic or subject. Literary analysis essays can be written about any number of elements, or aspects, in a literary work—its characters, its settings, its events, its language, its images, its themes, or its symbols. The subject of your literary analysis essay should be something that is prominent in the novel, not something that is minor or of little importance.

Example: A literary analysis essay on The Great Gatsby might focus on the message that F. Scott Fitzgerald conveys about the adverse effects of wealth on the novel's characters.

What topic or subject in The Catcher in the Rye would you like to write about in your literary analysis? Explain why you think that this topic is appropriate for a literary analysis essay.

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2.Next consider the purpose of your essay. The purpose is what you intend to show or prove about the subject you have chosen. An essay about one of the symbols in a novel might be written to identify and explain that symbol's meaning. An essay about a character in a novel might be written to explain how he or she changes and grows over the course of a work.

Example: The purpose of an essay about the adverse effects of wealth on the characters in The Great Gatsby might be to show that wealth is not a source of happiness or contentment for people, but actually harms those who pursue and obtain it.

What do you plan to show or prove about your subject?

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3.Now consider the role that textual evidence will play in your essay. Textual evidence includes details, quotations, and descriptions from the novel. A writer will incorporate or cite textual evidence to support the assertion he or she makes about the essay's subject in the thesis statement.

Example: If one were writing an essay about the adverse effects of wealth on the characters in The Great Gatsby, one might cite details, quotations, and descriptions about the unhappy marriage of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the failure of Gatsby to win Daisy over, and the death of Gatsby to support one's assertion.

Describe at least three specific pieces of textual evidence from The Catcher in the Rye that you will use to support the assertion you will make about your subject. If you cannot find several pieces of textual evidence that can be used to support your assertion, consider changing your subject or the assertion you plan to make.

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4.Finally, you are ready to compose a thesis statement for your literary essay. Your thesis statement should focus on a specific subject, make a claim or an assertion about that subject, and briefly state a conclusion that you have drawn about the subject based on textual evidence that you plan to include.

Example: A suitable thesis statement for a literary essay on The Great Gatsby might read as follows: "Through his depictions of the failures and the death of Jay Gatsby and the discontent felt by the Buchanans in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows readers that wealth is no substitute for true happiness but is instead a corrupting influence in the lives of these characters."

Look at your answers to the first three questions above and then combine them into a single thesis statement.

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PART 2


After you have developed a working thesis statement for your honors project essay, go to your local library and locate relevant works of literary criticism that support your thesis statement. Provide the bibliographic information and a brief summary of at least two pieces of literary criticism that you find in the spaces provided below. For each work, also include ideas and quotations that could be used to support your thesis statement.

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1.Source 1

Bibliographic information:

Summary of the criticism:

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2.Source 2

Bibliographic information:

Summary of the criticism:

Ideas and quotations that support your thesis:

PART 3

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Section One
Part I:
The subject I would like to explore, based on my reading of "The Catcher in the Rye" is the
narrator's desire to preserve the innocence that he sees in children. One of the major conflicts of
Holden is the passing of time, and how its passing reflects on the growing up and maturing of
people. Holden is trying, throughout the novel, to remain as attached to the world of innocence
that childhood meant for him, while trying to detach himself from the adult world. His desire to
hold on to this perceived innocence is one of the most captivating aspects of the novel.
Part II:
The purpose of my essay would be to show that Holden's distaste for the adult world is not
entirely noble. Though Holden has valid reasons for trying to remain uninvolved in a world of
responsibilities and "phoniness", his desire to remain involved with childhood, though he no
longer is a child, ends up affecting him, and others, in a negative fashion. Though the decisions
he makes, throughout the novel, are not inherently immoral, they do have consequences that he
does not want to see. Holden's desire to remain a child is counterproductive, as no amount of
wihsing will stop the passing of time.
Part III:
When Holden visits the museum of the natural world, he comes to the conclusion that he enjoys
his visits because everything is always unchanged. Like his childhood, which he can only access
now through his memories, the objects in the museum are perfectly still. They only show the
past, and there is no movement of time in this. Like Holden, the museum does not allow time to
move inside of it.
When Holden is speaking to Phoebe, and he discusses his fantasy about wanting to be a "Catcher
in the Rye". He sees himself as the protector of childhood innocence in this passage, in a literal
and figurative way. He literally wants to save the lives of children who would have otherwise
fallen into the cliff.
In his encounter with his Mr. Antolini, the roles of the Catcher in the Rye becomes reversed, as it
is the teacher who is attempting to capture Holden in his fall. Though, Holden's actions and
thought processes, when seen from the lense of an outsider like Mr. Antolini, his convictions do
not come across as a noble pursuit of innocence, but rather, a selfish detachment from the world.
Part IV:
Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" depicts the internal machinations of a young man who, in the
process ...


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