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assigning a book to his 11th grade class. That book was The Catcher in the Rye. Written by J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye is about a young man, Holden Caulfield, and his story over the course of a few days; the novel has faced a lot of criticism and complaints since its release in 1951. Many believe that the book should be banned in public schools because of language and sexual themes; however, The Catcher in the Rye should not be banned because it teaches kids life lessons, such as the importance

little kids 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 and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing

Catcher in the Rye, a story set in the 1950s, it is evident how Holden Caulfield learns to accept the changing world around him. Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy who is just beginning to thoroughly understand adulthood. He admits to only liking Thomas Hardy and Allie Caulfield,

The name of the novel I chose is The Catcher in the Rye and was written by J.D. Salinger. The genre is a novel and the sub-genre is Bildungsroman. The novel takes place in New York in 1945, 5 years after WW2. The novel was first published on July 1951 by Little, Brown and Company. The protagonist and narrator of the novel is Holden Caulfield. Holden is a sixteen year old son of a wealthy New York family who repeatedly moves from boarding school to boarding school because of Holden’s inability to

expectations that society, including his parents and the history teacher, has on him. However, the difference between the two protagonists is that in Nervous Conditions the expectations are pushing Tambu to pursue her dreams, whereas in The Catcher in the Rye the norms are hindering Holden from developing. The opposite attitudes towards education also emphasize the characters outlook on respective social class.

though adolescents may not realize it, there are much more significant problems in the world than not getting the toy they wanted from Santa Claus. Our problems get larger and they get harder to deal with as we get older. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the main character is a teenage boy named Holden that is facing problems that he is having a hard time dealing with. He is having a hard time growing up because he doesn’t know how to face the problems that come his way. Salinger tells

The Different Viewpoints of Catcher in the Rye It is no surprise that the Catcher in the Rye, a rather prominent and popular novel written J.D Salinger, has many different viewpoints and evokes different opinions from the reader. The novel is about a young man by the name of Holden Caulfield where everything seems to be toppling upon him; stress, growing up, making critical decisions. Holden travels through an arduous journey which is not kind to him, however it does make him open his eyes to the

In both Steven Chbosky and J.D. Salinger’s coming of age novels ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ both authors successfully explore the idea of entering adulthood as an outsider. The Perks of Being a Wallflower follows a fifteen-year-old boy, Charlie. Charlie has recently lost his best friend Michael to suicide and is struggling to come to terms with his death. He is in his freshman year of high school and struggles to fit in socially, until he meets a group of seniors

In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the author illustrates Holden Caulfield’s journey after leaving Pencey State and traveling to New York from Holden’s first-person point of view. This journey he partakes in is one of self-discovery and acceptance, ultimately searching for his own self worth. Though Holden has little to no character development throughout the novel, it is still difficult to fully address who he is. Stemming from his own desire to live in his childhood state of mind and tendencies

J.D. Salinger, the author of the Catcher in the Rye, was a skilled writer. Salinger wrote about a wide variety of characters throughout this novel, many of these characters had a complex personality. Holden Caulfield is the main character in the Catcher in the rye. Holden is a unique character and he shares very little traits with the other people he encounters throughout the novel besides his younger sister, Phoebe. Holden and Phoebe Caulfield have two very different personalities but they share