Summary Of ' The Rye '

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, is a widely known book known that many people would consider to be one of the greatest books of all time. This book is considered to be a ‘great’ book because of the many hidden meanings, or messages written by the author. Many people connect to the main character in this story, Holden. Holden is very depressed with his life which some readers can connect with and how he considers the people around him are phony which more people connect with as well. A major theme, that is connected to the title of the story, is how Holden is dealing with growing up. The Catcher in the Rye shows growing up through Holden wanting to protect children from any suffering, he does not want to let go of his childhood, and

Holden see’s a little kid who was singing the poem "Comin' Thro' the Rye". Holden admires the little kid as he says, “But there was one nice thing. This family that you could tell just came out of some church were walking right in front of me - a father, a mother, and a little kid about six years old. They looked sort of poor. The father had on one of those pearl-gray hats that poor guys wear a lot when they want to look sharp. He and his wife were just walking along, talking, not paying any attention to their kid. The kid was swell. He was walking in the street, instead of on the sidewalk, but right next to the curb. He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming. I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing that song, 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye.' He had a pretty little voice, too. He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell. The cars zoomed by, brakes screeched all over the place, his parents paid no attention to him, and he kept on walking next to the curb and singing 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye.' It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more." (Salinger 115). The poem represents Holden’s desire to protect the innocence of children as Holden admires the child’s singing as the poem

Holden has numerous distinct attributes pertaining to both childhood and adulthood. His transition from growing and relational life, to an uncontrolled spiritual realm, this stresses him. He has instances of introspection that helps him encompass a realization for his own livelihood. When he shares with his sister Phoebe what he would sincerely like to do with his life he says “I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.” (Salinger 173) That quote reveals the reasoning for the title of the book because Holden wants nothing more than to protect the innocence of children.

All these little kids [are] playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere

Holden Caulfield is a character who has been through rejection and wishes to protect others innocence. He is a teen boy who is the main character in Catcher in The Rye by J.D.Salinger. He has an older brother named DB, a younger sister named Phoebe, and a younger, deceased, brother named Allie. Holden retells his story on him, trying to be the catcher in the rye. Holden has been kicked out of different colleges. He has been rejected by different girls. Holden goes through his life story. He talks about being kicked out of Pencey, his friend Jane, his “acquaintance” Stradlater, and how, when, and where Allie died. Society is to blame for Holden Caulfield's decline in mental stability. Society does not help Holden. Instead, they ignore his

were they feel like they’re alienated. In a lot of ways, Holden also literally wants

In The Catcher in the Rye, the reader is first introduced to Holden Caulfield, as first person narrator. He is a radically independent adolescent who tosses off judgments at ease unselfconsciously. The introduction scene is set where he is, voluntarily isolated from the rest, looking down upon a hill during a Pencey Prep football game. He then goes into introducing primary characters that impacted his life, such as, Mr. Spencer, Ackley and Stradlater. Later on that night, Holden leaves campus enraged with anger and hatred towards everyone and sets on an adventure to find himself in the city of New York. Throughout the novel, Holden goes on a pursuit in search of maturity, intimate love, moral innocence, and acceptance despite his hatred for phoniness.

J.D Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, is the story of Holden Caulfield’s loss of faith in society, and in particular adults. Salinger uses a number of symbols to demonstrate Holden’s rebellion against the phony facade of society and his desire to preserve the innocence of children, especially those he loves. Chief among them is Holden’s misinterpretation of Robert Burns’ poem “Comin thro’ the Rye”, wherein Holden mistakes the original line, “If a body meet a body”, with “If a body catch a body”. Holden fantasizes about being the “Catcher in the Rye” who saves millions of children from metaphorically falling off the edge of a cliff, in other words, losing their innocence and becoming phony adults, . Holden’s fixation with preserving innocence appears to emerge after the death of his brother Allie, three years earlier. For example, when Holden is asked what he likes by his sister Phoebe he responds with “I like Allie” even though Allie is dead. Holden idolizes his younger siblings, Allie and Phoebe, noting that children that still have their innocence and have not been corrupted by adulthood, an example of this is the way Phoebe still puts sentimental value in the pieces of the “Little Shirley Beans” record, and the way that Allie wrote poems on the inside of his baseball mitt so that “he’d have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat.”

His realization of this impossibility makes very depressed. Holden believes that the cruel adult world steals children's innocence and transforms them into phonies. His beliefs resulted in him not liking anything. Phoebe tries to prove this to him by asking him what he wants to be, he says he what's to be the catcher in the rye, she corrects him," It's if a body meet a body coming through the rye!"(173). Holden wants to be a catcher who protects children from the adult

Holden then begins to fantasize about moving to Colorado under the radar before his parents find out and Phoebe asks Holden what he likes in life and Holden cannot find an answer. Phoebe then asks Holden what he wants to be, and Holden quickly responds, “ What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff… I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all” (93). When Holden fantasies him wanting to be the catcher in the rye, it shows that Holden cannot accept reality because being the catcher in the rye is not a real job but just a fantasy. Holden fantasizing all the time reveals that he wants to stay innocent because kids fantasize all the time, and that he cannot accept reality because fantasies are ways to escape reality into a fake world. In addition to fantasizing about his future job, Holden also later shares a fantasy with a girl, Sally, he called up to go out and have a drink with him.

3) This quote reflect the theme of which Holden is how he got the idea of why he wanted to became the catcher in the rye.

He imagines kids playing in a field of rye and he is standing on the cliff. “I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all” (191). Being a catcher in the field of rye resembles Holden’s want to protect the innocence of a child.

What does “The Catcher in the Rye” really mean? Holden, the main character of the novel, explains to us that it means preserving a child’s innocence. It all starts when Holden over hears a child singing, “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.” This makes Holden extremely happy to hear a child singing; it makes him not so depressed. Later in the book, Phoebe, Holden’s sister, corrects him and tells him that the actual words are, “if a body meet a body.” She also informs him that it’s a poem, not a song. From this, we know that Holden has misinterpreted the poem, which changes everything.

In many novels the title of the story is more important than most people initially think. It often reveals important information about the story. The Catcher in the Rye is a title whose significance gradually becomes apparent as the novel progresses. Written by JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye is a coming-of-age novel in which the main character, Holden Caulfield, wishes to preserve the innocence of children. Through the title, this theme is portrayed and emphasized. The title of this novel takes its name from a line in a poem by the poet Robert Burns.

First, I believe that cather 's overall view is naturalistic. There’s a few romatic points of view. The story also had some realistic points of view. There was a young girl Alexandra. She had a little brother Emil. It tells us in the beginning that they were walking around and there cat got stuck and a close friend of Alexandra’s help. His name was Carl. The Story later on tells you that time has passed and has had many different occurrence. The love birds with the secret affair come to an end. The reason developed when Frank became jealous because Frank Marie’s husband, “Shot Marie and Email under The Mulberry Tree for having feeling for one another.” Ivar was also another character in the story one of his quotes were, “The road to Ivar