The Catcher in The Rye: Depression Catcher

American Lit 12, March 2012 low backstop Do you pee-pee helpless breaklook on your machineriage? One sharp its an outburst of anger. The next youre crying uncontrollably. Do you need help? The Catcher In The Rye is a novel based of the main credits point of view, his name is Holden Caulfield. Set in 1950s rising York and California, where Holden is a mental hospital telling us, the readers, most his few long time after leaving Pency. The movie Ferris Bullers Day Off , also go under in Chicago, is a movie based in the 1980s. Ferris makes his friends skip condition and run all around town screening to make Cameron have fun.In both the film and novel, you recognise m both examples of depression and suicidal thoughts from both Holden and Cameron. Teenagers face a lot of pressures, from puberty to questions about who they are and where they decease in. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden runs a expressive style from his fancy high school, Pency, 3 days before break begins. He felt isolated with no friends. I almost wished I was dead (48). Holden had just gotten in a fight with his roommate, Stradlater. Now Ackley was trying to have a conversation about the fight with Holden but he keeps talking nonsense to Ackley.In Ferris Buellers Day Off, Cameron, Ferris ruff friend always seems to be sick. His family isnt really in his life and when they are, they seems to only bring him down. In the beging scene of Cameron, he is in fanny acting like hes dying. Holden arranges .. she wouldntve been the unrivalleds that answered the phone. My parents would be the ones. So that was out (pg. 59). He doesnt seem to have a great kindred with his parents either. Holden wants to talk to his little sister Pheobe or anyone for that matter. He feels isolated inside himself which makes him depressed.Cameron is the same in that he is very awkward and no one really seems to want to be friends with him. Towards the end of the book, Holden takes a visit to see Pheope but is u nable to find her. He looks in the park and museum. The stovepipe thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobodyd move. You could go there a ascorbic acid thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those deuce fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deer would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked chest ould still be weaving that same blanket (pg. 121). Therefore, Holden would love to endure in a world where everything stays frozen, where nothing changes. This way, Holden can never grow up to be an adult. Cameron is very mad after they got the car back because of all the miles that were added. He goes in to shock and is unable to move. Ferris and Sloan try their best to get him out of it but he wont budge. While at the pool, Cameron falls in, almost committing suicide. Ferris jumps in to save.Cameron star ts to laugh expression I got you good. Holden goes home to find Pheobe. Phoebe is the only someone Holden seems to actually like and have a stable friendship end-to-end the novel. She is the only one who tries to push him to do better You fall apartt like any schools. You dont like a million things (pg. 169). When Holden hears this, he becomes upset and states I do Thats where youre wrong-thats exactly where youre wrong Why the hell do you have to say that I said. Boy, was she depressing me. Holden and Cameron are depressed teenagers who have suicidal thoughts because of depression. Depression severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feeling of hopelessness and inadequacy, a condition of mental disturbance, typicaly with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining constriction or interest in life. People who are depressed dont look for a way out. They have zero motive and are always second guessing stuff. They think the only way out is death suicide. Just like what Ho lden and Cameron seem to feel.