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The novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger is a powerful novel chronicling the life of an upper class teenage boy, Holden Caulfield during the early 1950’s. Around this time, more and more people were conforming to society, dressing the same, acting the same, and through Holden, Salinger challenges those ideals. The book opens when Holden is expelled from yet another boarding school, because of his awful grades. He finds the world around him to be fake, and those people who demand him to conform to be phonies, not true to themselves. He sets off for New York City on his own, in a journey of self-exploration where he learns about love, life, and sex. As a troubled youth, he is a constant pessimist about the world around him, seeing it to be a mass conformist nation, without any true individuals, except for himself of course. His early life is troubled, and his younger brother’s death shook him badly, and effected him deeply. Some of the pessimism comes from his older brother, a writer who in Holden’s opinion became a prostitute for Hollywood, abandoning his own writing to work for the movies, selling out in the worst way.His parents seem vastly absent in the novel, perhaps suggesting that his parents are not role models for him, and while they may love him, they do not truly understand him. Without this adult guidance he mistrusts the adult world, a cynical view which pervades the whole book. This kind of teenage rebellion is something that the youth of today can easily relate to. Holden himself is an easily relatable character, and modern teens will find something of his character similar in themselves, whether that’s his cynicism, or his constant thoughts about sex. He is confused by sex, but still finds it intriguing, and of course wants very badly to experience it. He goes on a date, with an old friend, and while he tries very badly to be charming, he cannot stand how absolutely fake he feels she is, and this leaves him disappointed with the world in gene
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The other day I was at a store and saw a little boy excited to get on and ride the escalator. Nothing was passing through his head about being cool, about pretending it was routine for him, no embarrassment, just plain excitement. Holden Caulfield would have said, “He kills me.”
The thing is that we grow out of that and into something else — a much more self-conscious, socially aware, socially anxious, strategic, plotting . . . adult. Caulfield doesn’t like that — it’s full of “phonies.” How do you grow into an adult without becoming a “phony?” As Caulfield says, “How would you know you weren’t being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn’t.” You could be phony about being phony, priding yourself on your non-phoniness, on your seeing through everybody else’s phoniness. You never know.
If you’re like me, and you haven’t read A Catcher in the Rye for a very long time, it’s worth a re-read (or maybe two).
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The Help is the best book i have read in years!!!! Could not put it down.
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Yea this one was a bit of an overkill… I didn’t even fill 1/4 of it with two batteries for my camcorder
A History of the
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