Catcher In The Rye Short Stories

“I think I just forgot my own daughter,” my mom answered for me. “I am extremely sorry Julia. I don’t know what happened.”

“Darlin’, I’m so sorry that happened to you of all people. You are so sweet and kind. It’s just a downright shame.” Fiona reached out to stroke Casey’s trembling hand. “Go ahead and take your time, we have all day if need be. Why don’t you tell me about your daughter? I’m sure she was lovely.”

I’ve decided to finish telling about how I got sick, After all there is nothing else for me to do while I am stuck here. When I got home my mother was surprised to see me. And of course she was mad and I had to hear the “young man I am very disappointed in you, you’re better than this talk” Even though was barely listening my dad lectured me on and on about how they paid good money for me to attend Pency Prep, it’s not like I didn’t care but I didn’t really care and eventually I got up and went to my room. They were really stressing me out and I was depressed again so I sat down and I began to talk to Allie, because that’s what I do when I’m depressed. It comforts me and takes me back to a time when everything was ok. “Okay now, go home and get your bike and meet me out front of Bobby’s house. Hurry up.”

The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is the story of a troubled young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden meanders through New York for two days contemplating his place in the world and what his future will look like. The duration of Holden’s stay in the city is filled with depression and loneliness, but also small glimpses of hope and happiness. Through the use of repetition and the use of anecdote, Salinger spins a cautionary tale which all adolescents should heed.

In J.D. Salinger’s, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden’s digression about Alec “something” shows his hatred for the phoniness of the world, especially the awful fantasies that occur in movies. The digression begins with Holden complaining about a movie he saw at a Christmas program. The movie is about a duke named Alec “something” who loses his memory when fighting in the war. Alec comes home without knowing of his position as a duke, or that he is engaged. Alec ends up falling in love with a woman on the bus who is carrying the same copy of Oliver Twist as him. It is ironic that the couple is carrying Oliver Twist because this book relates to Holden’s life in many ways. After Alec falls in love, his previous fiancée shows up and tells him about his position as a

“Here you go, Annie,” he said, the grin he and I both shared plastered on his broad face. “Just what you wanted.”

Holden’s experience teaches teenages about struggles, in so many ways. For instance in The Catcher in the Rye taught me about self awareness such as realizing you can only change yourself and nobody else. I will never be able to change anyone else actions, but our own. Holden’s struggle with depression hit close to home for me. I know what it’s like to feel so depressed and unstable. However while reading the novel holden’s story made me feel like I wasn’t alone. I finally felt like I had someone who understood my thoughts completely. “I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy” (Salinger 3). I know what it’s like to be pretty run-down, when I was in the hospital for three days before I got admitted in kidspeace.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a controversial book from many aspects. There was a public uproar when it was primarily released in 1951, mainly due to the profanity and sexual exploitation within. Salinger was able to construct the text in a unique manner, writing from the perspective of a highly critical, lonely and depressed 17 year old boy, Holden Caulfield, who recounts an incident which occurred one year ago. Holden was expelled from Pencey Prep, a rich and well known prep school with a good reputation. He dropped out due to academic failure but claimed that “he could’ve done the work, he just chose not to apply himself.” Holden decided to give his parents time to digest the news so they wouldn’t be overwhelmingly furious

In the morning, it felt like a regular day. Lyla woke up to complete silence. She rolled out of bed, sliding her feet into her slippers and picked up the clothes that she’d picked out yesterday to wear today at school. She opened her bedroom door and walked down the narrow hallway to the bathroom, stopping at her sister’s room.

Can you imagine as a 17 year old getting kicked out of school and having to travel home to tell your parents. This is how J.D. Salinger begins his novel Catcher in the Rye. A story about a young man’s struggle with adulthood. Catcher in the Rye shows how terrible it is to grow up. As an adult you lose your innocence, you have to face reality and you have responsibilities.

After I came back from the game I saw Holden in our room lying down in his bed. I looked around the room to see if he had actually written my composition. I saw a few papers scattered across my bed that was pushed against the wall. I hope that those papers are for my composition. I know that if I didn’t have a guy like Holden around, I would flunk out with him.

J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been and will continue to be an American classic. Many argue that it has no business being taught in schools or even the praise it gets, and should be banned. It’s undeniable that this book has been in the English curriculum for many years, not all teachers can be wrong with teaching this.In J.D. Salinger’s classic American novel The Catcher in the Rye, he establishes his main character Holden Caulfield through his reclusive nature and stream of consciousness.

he had barely made it to fifty when the blight began to seep into his thoughts and burn at his skin. it started as a dull ache in the back of his mind like a siren’s call, urging him to give in to the taint. like an idiot, he ignored it, drowning himself in all the antivan wines (and since he was already considered a big drinker, no one batted an eye) he could afford just to stop the beginning notes of the song from playing. drowning himself worked - for a time. soon, not even the deepest of stupors kept the dreams away. he stopped sleeping for a bit, catching small, undisturbed cat naps when his subordinates weren’t looking - long enough to give himself a bit of energy but short enough that the bloody taint wouldn’t find him in the fade.

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He unlocked his phone, and, ignoring the shaking of his hand, answered the call. “Hey” he said, not even trying to compress the wound, too far gone as he already was, “no, i’m fine. I’ll be with you in a minute or two…” He would make sure he kept that promise he wanted to see him one last time.