The Catcher in The Rye: Depression Catcher

American Lit 12, March 2012 Depression Catcher Do you have helpless outlook on your life? One minute its an fusillade of anger. The next youre crying uncontrollably. Do you need help? The Catcher In The Rye is a novel based of the main characters locate of view, his name is Holden Caulfield. Set in 1950s New York and California, where Holden is a mental hospital telling us, the readers, slightly his few days after leaving Pency. The plastic film Ferris Bullers Day Off , also set in Chicago, is a movie based in the 1980s. Ferris makes his friends skip school and run all around town trying to make Cameron have fun.In both the film and novel, you see many examples of depression and suicidal thoughts from both Holden and Cameron. Teenagers face a lot of pressures, from puberty to questions nearly who they are and where they fit in. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden runs a agency from his fancy high school, Pency, 3 days before break begins. He felt separate with no friends. I almo st 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 beat out friend always seems to be sick. His family isnt really in his life and when they are, they seems to but bring him down. In the beging scene of Cameron, he is in bed acting like hes dying. Holden says .. she wouldntve been the ones that answered the phone. My parents would be the ones. So that was out (pg. 59). He doesnt seem to have a great relationship with his parents either. Holden wants to talk to his little sister Pheobe or anyone for that matter. He feels isolated within himself which makes him downcast.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 unable to find her. He looks in the park and mu seum. The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobodyd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just sinless catching those two 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 unclothed bosom ould still be weaving that same blanket (pg. 121). Therefore, Holden would love to live in a world where everything stays frozen, where nothing changes. This way, Holden can neer 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 starts to laugh saying I got you wide. Holden goes home to find Pheobe. Phoebe is the only person Holden seems to actually like and have a stable friendship throughout the novel. She is the only one who tries to tote him to do better You dont 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 nut house 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 looking of hopelessness and inadequacy, a condition of mental disturbance, typicaly with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest in life. People who are depressed dont look for a way out. They have zero motivation and are always second guessing stuff. They think the only way out is death suicide. Just like what Holden and Cameron seem to feel.