In the story "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden lied to Marty. It doesn't seem to him like the wrong thing to do. But he does it just have a little fun on the side. Telling that he can do it even for hours, is a joke that he pulled off to make talks lighter and not get too serious in the conversation.
Anyway, he regrets his lie when he said he saw Gary Cooper that made Marty really sad of not seeing this actor.
Answer:
He is a victim.
Explanation:
Stephen Crane's short story "An Episode of War" tells the story of a nameless lieutenant who was hit by a bullet while distributing coffee to his fellow men. His arm that got hit didn't seem to be serious, with him hardly realizing he had been hit in the first place. But when he saw that the wound had been a bit serious, he decided to go to the makeshift hospital to get medical help. the wound may have seem insignificant but when he went to get medical care, he ended up amputating his arm. This, according to the narrator, is "<em>the story of how the lieutenant lost his arm</em>".
Tansen was a boy who did not have a formal education. He had no interest in going to school or learning his lesson, he only wanted to sing.
Tansen faced a dilemma when the Emperor demanded he sing a certain song. This song will ultimately burn the singer and cause damage or death. Tansen knew of this consequence but he had thought of a way wherein he will sing the song and not lose his life. This is how he showed his intelligence.
Answer:
'The Censors' is the story of a young man named Juan who gets a job censoring letters for an authoritarian government. He's great at it - so great that he censors his own letter and gets himself executed.
Explanation:
All letters written and mailed in this society go through the Censor's Secret Command, a bureaucratic agency that inspects everything for bombs, poisonous powders, secret messages, and more. Anything and everything could be a potential signal to the Censors that the letter's sender or receiver is plotting against the government, and Juan is worried that something in his letter will implicate Mariana.
He comes up with a genius plan: he'll get a job with the Censors, work his way up the ladder, and intercept his own letter to send it through safely. He's hired easily, as there's a continuous need for new censors for reasons that we learn later in the story.
Juan quickly and easily works his way up the ranks at the Censor's Command. By the end of the first week, he's in the department that actually censors letters and is fully devoted to his work. Juan censors letter after letter, throwing away most of them that come across his desk.
One day, Juan's own letter lands on his desk. He's so focused on being the best censor possible that he mercilessly censors it and tosses it in the reject pile, which is a red flag to his superiors. Juan is executed the next day, 'another victim of his devotion to his work.'
