por esmé et un piscine de banane

The short stories, we read, "A perfect day for banana fish" and "For Esmé with love and squalor" share many similarities, however they include many differences as well. The stories are alike because of their sharing of the same general theme. They both talk about how war, and violence changes someone. both men, Seymour and X, both went away to war, good guys and perfectly fine. they both returned vastly different men. Salinger shows that war is never the right answer. War, takes away innocence, not just of the soldiers themselves, but the people they knew. the two stories also included wild plots of pedophilia. although Salinger never comes right out and shows pedophilia. in Banana fish, Seymour was clearly a ceriel pedophile. he was flirting with little girls and then going off alone with them. In Esmé, X had a romantic conversation and promised to exchange letters with a 13 year-old girl. i believe the books were the same, because Salinger confronts sexuality. it appears as though he feels remorseful for the actions shown in the books. The books are also similar because the main characters were in love with german writings. this is supposed to represent Salinger and the many components he shares wight the people he writes about. The books are eventually proved different, because the relationships between the men and their victims, is vastly different. in Banana fish, the children seem to be blissfuly unaware of the relationship between Seymour and them. they are too young to understand the sexual intensions Seymour has. In Esmé the girl is thirteen years old, not just old enough to get what is happening, but even recoperates the flirting that X gives her. she offers to write him, and in the end, they have a more true and romantic relationship.