Examples Of The Catcher In The Rye Rebellion
Nick Greco
English 9H
Ms. Amarianos
12/22/14
Adolescence and Holden Caulfield, the Rebellion
Introduction
Is it just me... or does every adult hate what teenagers do? Well, it hasn’t only occurred in recent days, it has dated back all the way to the 1940s and 1950s after World War II. Adolescents of the 1940s were no longer concerned with winning a war, instead they were concerned with being popular and successful in their adult lives. The Catcher in the Rye is an amazing book by J.D Salinger reflecting this idea, as said best by Forbes Magazine own Adam Golub “Perhaps one of the most important legacies of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is the way in which it anticipated a shift in American attitudes toward adolescence” (2). Perhaps the biggest change that the Catcher in the Rye had anticipated was how Adolescents were not becoming as concerned with their finances and their portfolio, but …show more content…
Changes in society have always been shot down by Adults of the era as “Stupid” or “unnecessary”. Some fads that were viewed as inane by Adults of the era included: Telephone Booth Stuffing, or when several college students would squeeze themselves into a telephone booth until no one else could fit inside. As well as the infamous “Panty Raid” where around 600 male students at Michigan University had bombarded into the women’s dormitory and confiscated hundreds of pairs of underwear. The acts weren’t popular to the adults at the time so they had believed that this was completely an incompetent thing to do. These adults weren’t born into this so they had to either change their ways or, as most adults do stick with what they had liked growing up such as stickball or Swing dancing, or even swallowing live goldfish which were very far off from what teenagers of the era had viewed as
English 9H
Ms. Amarianos
12/22/14
Adolescence and Holden Caulfield, the Rebellion
Introduction
Is it just me... or does every adult hate what teenagers do? Well, it hasn’t only occurred in recent days, it has dated back all the way to the 1940s and 1950s after World War II. Adolescents of the 1940s were no longer concerned with winning a war, instead they were concerned with being popular and successful in their adult lives. The Catcher in the Rye is an amazing book by J.D Salinger reflecting this idea, as said best by Forbes Magazine own Adam Golub “Perhaps one of the most important legacies of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is the way in which it anticipated a shift in American attitudes toward adolescence” (2). Perhaps the biggest change that the Catcher in the Rye had anticipated was how Adolescents were not becoming as concerned with their finances and their portfolio, but …show more content…
Changes in society have always been shot down by Adults of the era as “Stupid” or “unnecessary”. Some fads that were viewed as inane by Adults of the era included: Telephone Booth Stuffing, or when several college students would squeeze themselves into a telephone booth until no one else could fit inside. As well as the infamous “Panty Raid” where around 600 male students at Michigan University had bombarded into the women’s dormitory and confiscated hundreds of pairs of underwear. The acts weren’t popular to the adults at the time so they had believed that this was completely an incompetent thing to do. These adults weren’t born into this so they had to either change their ways or, as most adults do stick with what they had liked growing up such as stickball or Swing dancing, or even swallowing live goldfish which were very far off from what teenagers of the era had viewed as