Reincarnation essays

Reincarnation essays One is floating down the river, the other is wandering aimlessly along the streets of New York. One has conflicts with the racism of the south, the other has trouble keeping the innocence of this world. One has a slave to keep him company, the other has his little sister. No matter how you look at it, Holden Caulfield and Huckleberry Finn have lead very similar lives and have dealt with similar issues. They each have conflicts within themselves while battling society on the outside. But most importantly, both of them have dealt with loneliness, wandering in this world, and the complexities of a deformed conscience. In Huck Finn, Huck has a very hard time dealing with loneliness, sometimes to the point of suicide. Hes never really had a family of his own. All Huck has ever had was an abusive alcoholic of a father or a widow foster mom who kept on trying to sivilize him. Also, when he is on the river, after escaping from Pap and his broken home, he feels incredibly alone. Just as Huck feels alone in this world, so does Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. After leaving Pencey, Holden wanders through New York alone looking for some comfort, any comfort. He wants to know that there is still the slightest bit of innocence in the world around him. Holden wants to stop this depressing feeling in his head. I wasnt sleepy or anything, but I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wished I was dead (90). So in the same way Huck feels alone in an anti-black world, Holden feels alone in a very unclean world. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden has a very deformed way of thinking. Although only 16 at the time of the story, he lies about his age to buy cigarettes and alcohol. He is also an abuser of both these drugs. Along with being an underage drinker and smoker, Holden puts himself in dangerous, compromising positions constantly. These dangerous adventures include prostitutes, a pros...