Saturday, June 25, 2011

What comparisons can be made between the novel The Catcher in the Rye and films Iron man OR Juno?I need it before Saturday 08/01/2011

I don't exactly see too many connections between
Catcher in the Rye
and Iron Man, so I'll go with
Juno here.


  • Both the novel
    Catcher in the Rye and the film Juno are
    examples of the bildungsroman (coming-of-age) genre in which two
    teenagers enter the adult world.

  • Holden reluctantly
    enters the adult world and complains about it throughout the novel.  He calls most
    adults and teens "phonies," because they are materialistic and obsessed with
    status.

  • Juno is forced to enter the adult world through
    her pregnancy.  She is much more mature than Holden, using lighter sarcasm in her
    dealing with adults.  In fact, she "falls" for an adult, Mark (Jason Batemen).  She is,
    however, betrayed by him because he dissolves the marriage and prospective adoption.
     Nonetheless, she still trusts the adult world, namely Vanessa (Jennifer Garner), enough
    to uphold the adoption.

  • Whereas Holden is reluctant to
    have sex with Sonny and other girls like Jane, Juno willingly enters into her sexual
    relationship with Bleeker (Michael Cera).  In fact, they stay together even after the
    baby is born.  Such attitudes suggest much more openness to sex as a result of the
    sexual and feminine revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s.  Catcher, obviously, is set
    before then and the society is, therefore, much more conservative about sexual
    mores.

  • Holden's parents never appear in the novel.  His
    relationship is strained: they send him away to school.  Juno lives with and is
    supported by her parents.  Although not opposed to abortion, they trust her to entrust
    the baby with a loving family.  Her mother, for example, take her to the ultrasound
    appointment.

  • Both works are comedies and use verbal irony
    throughout (sarcasm, overstatement, understatement.)  In Juno, it's light parody
    (Horatian):

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Your parents are probably wondering where you
are. 
Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans
could I get into?



In
Catcher, it's much more angry and pointed satire
(Juvenalian):


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I mean most girls are so dumb and all.  After you
neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their
brains.  You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any
brains.


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