Comparing Holden and Homer
Uploaded by spootyhead on Apr 18, 2007
Comparing Holden and Homer
In life, we always have dreams that we desire and wish to become reality and we have goals that we plan on accomplishing. However, most of the time succeeding is harder said than done. Holden and Homer represent the people who seem to be categorized under those who have the trouble succeeding. Although they are two different people who live in two different types of society, they both share the same goal.
Living in two different types of societies and being so different from each other many would find it hard to believe that Holden an odd young man that doubts himself of a bright future who lives in a modern society, and Homer a young man who seems to have a bright future who lives in a rural town, both set out to conquer the same goal. This goal is to break free from where they are and explore the world seeing what it has to offer and how they can be a part of it while at the same time be successful. Although very different from each other, to achieve their goal they end up doing similar things. Holden only has a few days left at his school because he was expelled due to his grades so he decides to leave early, due to some other problems as well and heads to New York where he is in search of what the world has to offer. Homer on the other hand is a Doctor at the orphanage he was raised up as. Him being an orphan decides to leave by hitching a ride when he got the opportunity, to fill his curiosity of what the outside world is like since he knows nothing of it, also in search of what the outside world has to offer him. Another minor similarity is Holden leaves school to stay in “The Big Apple” and Homer leaves to stay in “The Cider House”.
Another similarity Holden and Homer have in common is their beliefs. Whatever they believe in, they seem to feel strongly about, and tends to always have arguments to back it up. As a doctor Homer strongly disagrees against abortions especially since he was an orphan and him knowing that if they had abortions around when his mother was pregnant with him he probally wouldn’t of been born. Although he performs the procedure after...