Society cannot be altered by any one person. In the novel the Catcher in the Rye, Holden finds out that society won't change just for him. He's constantly calling others phonies because they all follow the crowd, and to him it seems like almost everyone is the same. He lives his life freely doing whatever he wants while others are following order and have a much stricter lifestyle. Holden relates to Charlie in the novel Flowers for Algernon because in that novel society makes fun of people that have a mental disability; and Charlie tries to change that. Although Holden doesn't necessarily try to change others directly, he makes it easy for others to rebel against society by following his examples. Charlie on the other hand tries to directly alter society. He tries to find a cure for mental retardation so that he along with many others can live a normal life. But Charlie wasn't capable of changing society because he was alone. No one else had nearly the same mental intelligence is he did, and therefore he didn't have a lot of help with finding a cure. Holden was also alone in being a rebel against a society where everyone followed the social norms.
Holden does compare to charlie, they exiled themselves from the world and made themselves be alone. They went against society and in the end I feel fave in to society and went with the crowd. But in flowers, charlie didn't really have a choice to go back hisbrain made him. But holden was fully functioning and I think he could avoid going with the crowd. He might have stances a chance to take society on but he just went about it the wrong way; let his immaturitys decide all his choices for him. In the end left himself depressed and alone. All he needed to do is just be himself and not judge everyone and everything. Holden nor charlie could of done it alone they would of needed to someone Ro have their back and support their ideas. You can't have just one person try to take the world on you need many more.
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