Gülsen Terzioglu

The Catcher in the Rye and Brown Girl, Brownstones

Class, Culture, Gender and Ethnicity: Influences on the Adolescents in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Selina Boyce and Holden Caulfield are the hero andthe heroine of this thesis. The two adolescents comefrom different backgrounds, different families andeven from different ethnicities. The things theyhave in common, though, are not less significant:they both live in New York and they both have tostruggle with the problems of adolescence. In theirphase of physical and mental growth theseadolescents are going through various stages ofdealing with the influence of their new level theyenter after their innocent lives as children.Experience versus innocence is what makes the phaseof adolescence so confusing and the adults-to-beneed to find ways of getting through and over thesecrises. This is the point of separation for our twoheroes. This is the point where the differencebetween black and white comes in.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9783639075649
• ISBN-10: 3639075641
• Artikelnr.: 24893162

Autorenporträt

Mag. Gülsen Terzio lu, born in Austria in 1980. After completingher studies in German, English and American Language andLiterature at the Univ. of Innsbruck and UCL she worked as aGerman teacher and translator. Now she is an English teacher inTurkey and writes her doctoral thesis titled African-Americansand the death penalty in the U.S.