Discussion Questions To Consider From The Catcher In The Rye
Discussion Questions to Consider from The Catcher in the Rye
1. The Catcher in the Rye centers on a young man – can women relate to this novel, too? What about Holden is gender-specific, and what is common to all teenagers?
Women can relate
Common to all teenagers
Rebellious nature
Negative thoughts
Feeling inferiority
Illusion of Future
Curiosity
Not belonging
Gender-specific
Not as impulsiveness as girls
2. Let’s talk about the ending to the Catcher in the Rye. Is it optimistic? Negative? Gloomy?
O
Angers the readers
Nothing is finished
It leaves you hanging and asking questions
Gloomy
Holden didn’t change much throughout the novel
It seems as if he finished the same place he started
He is all alone at the metal facility reminiscing his life
Doesn’t accomplished anything
3. How much can we trust Holden’s descriptions of other people? Is Ackley really as pimply and disgusting as does “innocence” mean for him? To him?
50-50
He said he is a liar
Bias opinion
Ackley seems nice like when Holden came to his room to sleep but how Holden describe him so to the extreme. He doesn’t seem that bad. Maybe he has hygiene issue but that’s it.
4. If Holden is so obsessed with saving children’s innocence, why doesn’t he worry more about his own? What does “innocence” mean for him? To him?
He thinks that he is not worth saving
He thinks that is no longer innocent and if one’s innocence is lost one can never get it back
Innocence to him means not being a phony.
Being a children is also a form of innocence to him
Not having done any mistake is being innocent
Allie and Phoebe is a form of innocent for him.
He doesn’t like the idea of moving on and can’t accept that children grow up.
5. The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most frequently challenged books in the U.S. Which aspects of the book do you think people have found more objectionable? Do you find these aspects of the book off-putting? Do you think the book should be banned or censored? Do you think it should be taught
1. The Catcher in the Rye centers on a young man – can women relate to this novel, too? What about Holden is gender-specific, and what is common to all teenagers?
Women can relate
Common to all teenagers
Rebellious nature
Negative thoughts
Feeling inferiority
Illusion of Future
Curiosity
Not belonging
Gender-specific
Not as impulsiveness as girls
2. Let’s talk about the ending to the Catcher in the Rye. Is it optimistic? Negative? Gloomy?
O
Angers the readers
Nothing is finished
It leaves you hanging and asking questions
Gloomy
Holden didn’t change much throughout the novel
It seems as if he finished the same place he started
He is all alone at the metal facility reminiscing his life
Doesn’t accomplished anything
3. How much can we trust Holden’s descriptions of other people? Is Ackley really as pimply and disgusting as does “innocence” mean for him? To him?
50-50
He said he is a liar
Bias opinion
Ackley seems nice like when Holden came to his room to sleep but how Holden describe him so to the extreme. He doesn’t seem that bad. Maybe he has hygiene issue but that’s it.
4. If Holden is so obsessed with saving children’s innocence, why doesn’t he worry more about his own? What does “innocence” mean for him? To him?
He thinks that he is not worth saving
He thinks that is no longer innocent and if one’s innocence is lost one can never get it back
Innocence to him means not being a phony.
Being a children is also a form of innocence to him
Not having done any mistake is being innocent
Allie and Phoebe is a form of innocent for him.
He doesn’t like the idea of moving on and can’t accept that children grow up.
5. The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most frequently challenged books in the U.S. Which aspects of the book do you think people have found more objectionable? Do you find these aspects of the book off-putting? Do you think the book should be banned or censored? Do you think it should be taught