Book Report Catcher In The Rye
Title
The first-person narrative book, “the catcher in the rye” is a fiction novel that was written by J. D. Salinger and published in July 16, 1951 but takes place in the late 1940’s after the Second World War. The book's publication in 1951 came at the dawn of the age of the teenager; “A new social category, newly economically empowered and hungry for culture, was fed by music, films and novels”.
Characters
•Holden Caulfield: He has a crew cut, graying hair and he's tall for his age (6ft 2"). He's also skinny and for a sixteen year old, he is a heavy drinker and a smoker. The sixteen year old “wear a crew cut quite frequently and never have to comb it much” and he is always mistaken for being 13. Holden is the hero, the protagonist who suffers from depression, nervous breakdown, impulsive spending, sexual exploration, crudeness and sees many erratic behaviors in the world around him. After he gets removed from Pencey Prep school because of his scholastic disappointment in every one of his subjects aside from English, Holden embarks …show more content…
He wants to save the children in order for them not to lose their innocence and purity. Holden strives with all his might to keep childhood innocence. What he neglects to comprehend is that part of growing up sometimes mean losing one’s innocence and that he's the one headed for the fall. Unfortunatley,there will nobody there to catch him. It also connects to the loneliness motif because he is still upset about Allie’s death,mainly because there was no one to catch Allie when he was falling or going through the rye and no one could save him. Part of Holden blames himself for not being there for Allie and now, he is determined to help other kids and prevent them from growing up. Holden reveals that pain can cause an individual to become irrational especially when they are
The first-person narrative book, “the catcher in the rye” is a fiction novel that was written by J. D. Salinger and published in July 16, 1951 but takes place in the late 1940’s after the Second World War. The book's publication in 1951 came at the dawn of the age of the teenager; “A new social category, newly economically empowered and hungry for culture, was fed by music, films and novels”.
Characters
•Holden Caulfield: He has a crew cut, graying hair and he's tall for his age (6ft 2"). He's also skinny and for a sixteen year old, he is a heavy drinker and a smoker. The sixteen year old “wear a crew cut quite frequently and never have to comb it much” and he is always mistaken for being 13. Holden is the hero, the protagonist who suffers from depression, nervous breakdown, impulsive spending, sexual exploration, crudeness and sees many erratic behaviors in the world around him. After he gets removed from Pencey Prep school because of his scholastic disappointment in every one of his subjects aside from English, Holden embarks …show more content…
He wants to save the children in order for them not to lose their innocence and purity. Holden strives with all his might to keep childhood innocence. What he neglects to comprehend is that part of growing up sometimes mean losing one’s innocence and that he's the one headed for the fall. Unfortunatley,there will nobody there to catch him. It also connects to the loneliness motif because he is still upset about Allie’s death,mainly because there was no one to catch Allie when he was falling or going through the rye and no one could save him. Part of Holden blames himself for not being there for Allie and now, he is determined to help other kids and prevent them from growing up. Holden reveals that pain can cause an individual to become irrational especially when they are