Short Story About The Catcher In The Rye

"Yes", Susie said, "It should be really great". She was so polite. I really liked her. I usually like Phoebe's friends when I meet them. Watching the two of them helped me get my mind off of how I was about to face my parents. I was worried about my mom. I really was. I tried not to think of how hysterical she'd get. Phoebe said mom and dad were coming home at around seven o'clock. It was around four o'clock now. Soon enough they'd come home, see me, and deal with me. So, we got off the bus at 72nd street, said goodbye to Susie, and walked home. Phoebe seemed all cheery. Kids don't understand situations like this. I mean, old Phoebe, she did, but I guess she was just really happy to be with me, and that I was home and all.

Holden Caufield emphasizes on the loss of innocence in children. He feels that once they lose their innocence, they will soon turn into phonies like everyone else. The loss of innocence is very common in the development in human existence. It is caused by many factors. Past a certain age, children are either forced or led unintentionally into a pathway of corruption. A child is also known to lose their innocence by desires, fantasies, and attention. But once they lose their innocence, they tend to desire to go back and pretend to be young again. In the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden discusses the importance of innocence in children's lives. He feels that once a child loses his/her innocence, he/she will soon be leaded to a

4. Who does Holden meet in the nightclub of the hotel? Why do these women depress him? Why does he spend time with them then? Three older women, because they are obsessed with movie stars

“Hey, what are you doing.” Chloe said as she walked over to Kara on the track behind the school after school was over.

“Boy it began to rain,” told Holden, as he watched his sister ride happily on a carousel, “in buckets I swear to God” (Salinger 212). The rain in this scene acts, as Foster put it in Chapter 18 of his book, as a “rebirth” (Foster 159) or “new identity” (Foster 159). During this scene Holden is cleansed of his past ideal and childish thoughts. He emerges as a new and more mature person. The water

Innocence is to be free from sin or moral wrong, and purity is freedom from guilt or evil. According to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, innocence and purity grow weaker with time and life experience. The main character Holden holds onto his innocence and purity for as long as possible before understanding that it is inevitable that he grow up. J.D. Salinger proves that innocence and purity fade with time and age. He proves that life experiences can change a person and compel them to grow up and in turn lose their innocence and purity.

"What Pony." It didn't come out as a question but a statement like she was daring me to say something. "I am sorry I lied to the gang about what happened." "Ok"was all she relpied. "Can we just start over?" a smile played at her lips.

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.

“I swear to God I’m crazy. I admit it.” It is very easy to automatically assume that Holden Caulfield is crazy. It’s even a logical assumption since Caulfield himself admits to being crazy twice throughout the course of the book. However, calling Holden Caulfield crazy is almost the same as calling the majority of the human race crazy also. Holden Caulfield is just an adolescent trying to prevent himself from turning into what he despises the most, a phony. Most of Caulfield’s actions and thoughts are the same as of many people, the difference being that Holden acts upon those thoughts and has them down in writing.

Conrad: Surprisingly, no. She wasn’t very talkative, but she still seemed happy. She writes me letters sometimes.

Anna Marie Mayes Mr. Adcock English 9-3 October 20, 2017 Catcher in the Rye Essay As the title states, J.D. Salinger has a dominating message in the novel Catcher in the Rye. For the majority of the novel, the main character believes this to be a primary virtue. Throughout the novel, Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger expresses a common message of the importance of preserving innocence due to the main character revolving his life and thoughts around maturity, phonies, and Holden Caulfield's inability to have closure on the loss of his brother, Allie, affecting the way he interacted with others around him.

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’ Holden is often accused of and address Salinger’s vision behind etching Caulfield precisely the way he is. The paper also wishes to foreground the socio-political implications that reverberate within the rubric of the novel, Holden’s

He sat at the edge of the bed with the pistol cocked in his mouth. He was ready to leave this merciless world, and become a distant memory. He did not know what happens after life, and he didn’t care.

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Wandering over to join them, introductions were officially made. Smiling over at me, Sammy said, "Lisa, I 'd like you to meet my sister. She 's in town for the weekend."