What are similarities with Rebel without a cause and Catcher in the rye?

Question

Characters? Theme? Anything?

Answer 1

Both works deal with the displacement of adolescents in the United States of the post-World War II era, their non-conformity in a conforming world, their lack of respect for mere "respectability," their seeking a surrogate family.

Though Jim Stark and Holden Caulfield aren't all that much alike, those of us who were teenagers like them in the 1950s would have probably chosen James Dean to have played Holden, if a movie had been made of Catcher. Both guys are loners in a way but not at heart, both want to be seen as "cool" and sophisticated, distant from family and their social milieu, but both care about those whom they see as needing care, both are "gentle" men who need to be seen as "tough" or at least inviolable. But Holden is more introspective and depressed than Jim Stark, less a natural "leader" or hero to his peers. His relationship with his young sister Phoebe is not altogether different from Jim's caring for Sal Mineo's "Plato" character.

As a movie of the 1950s, when censorship was fairly active, the movie is much less explict in its teenage language and treatment of sex than Catcher, but in both, the sexuality--of the protagonist, his male friends, and his "girl friend"--was implicitly a major focus of attention.

Both works spoke of teenage angst and alienation in a way that most teenagers could relate to but, in the world of the '50s, would hardly have dared talk about on their own. So Holden and Jim Stark, as well as James Dean, each became an alter ego for a generation.

Somehow I suspect that teenagers in 2007 find both works a bit naive and both protagonists a bit incredible. Though both works--and both characters--loom large in the nostalgia of my generation, they represent the pain of our adolescence and, hence, do not stand out as works we would enjoy reading/seeing once again. Been there, done that.

Answer 2

I haven't seen Rebel, but I did read Catcher, and from what I know about each, I'd say they both have a strong theme of and characters dealing with dissatisfaction with the world as it is. They're both rebels, so to speak.

Best I can do, not knowing either very well.

Answer 3

think of of what each poem is approximately. Is the speaker portion of the incident or an onlooker(evaluate that). Does it end with substitute or no longer. Does the key character be triumphant. i do no longer likely understand the poems so i can not grant greater help, in simple terms seem at separate areas and notice why the two are the comparable or diverse

Answer 4

the hero in both refuses to be co-opted by the societal brainwashing, and usual plans for turning him into a spineless, insincere, heartless, consumer robo clone? a brave choice in a soulless, corrupt, hyper materialist culture, is it not? ;-)