Depravity In Catcher In The Rye

The Morality of Reading The Catcher in the Rye in School The story of The Catcher In The Rye, can and is misinterpreted by many people. It is very easy to find The Catcher In The Rye immoral if you are reading the book only to prove that idea. This is so because you can ignore the good things and ideas the author is trying to convey by using certain incidents that might be labeled wrong. On the other hand, if you are reading the book and taking that extra step to analyze the things that

not at all rich and strange but what every sensitive sixteen-year-old since Rousseau has felt, and of course what each one of us is certain he has felt” (Jones 24). So wrote one of the earliest critics of J. D. Salinger’s most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, in 1951. In his focus on the empathy shared between Catcher’s readers and its narrator, Holden Caulfield, a precocious sixteen-year-old who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day but still plays make-believe, Ernest Jones successfully pinpointed

Typifying valor, Holden conquers his anxieties by thrusting himself into the endeavors that frighten him and not giving up on his intrepid adventure; to illustrate, the writer of “An Analysis of the Adolescent Problems in The Catcher in the Rye,” Lingdi Chen, acknowledges, “He clearly identifies with those on the ‘other side’ of the game, and he feels alone and victimized, as though the world is against him. He feels trapped on the ‘other side’ of life, and he continually attempts

All Quiet on the Western Front 1. Paul Baumer and his friends, as German soldiers in World War I, collectively fight any who oppose the German army. However, Corporal Himmelstoss is an enemy whose transgressions are taken far more personally by Paul and his friends. Himmelstoss often torments Paul and his comrades for the sake of doing so, as he is power-driven and tries to exert control over others whenever he can. It is never stated that the soldiers hate or even dislike the enemies that they fight