How Does The Catcher In The Rye Change

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Change is only if the person wants to change; people will not change if they don’t want to. According to Holden, certain things should never change and should stay the way they are. Change starts with the person who is willing to change. Many people change when they’re around different people, do different hobbies, or have a more positive/negative outlook on life. In book The Catcher and the Rye, Holden has changed ever since his brother’s death. Holden was a decent kid who loved his siblings dearly. Later on, his brother Allie died from cancer and this changed Holden for life. From that point on, Holden could not look at his brother’s belongings the same and started slacking in school. He became more to himself and started bundling his feelings inside of him. From the result of this, Holden had transferred from different schools more than once and got kicked out of Pencey for not doing his work. The reader can tell by reading this, that Holden is somewhat sad to leave the friends he made, but he had been used to this by now. He felt more
I’ve changed because of the different friends groups I have been. Statistics show that the top five people a person hangs around is who the person acts like. This statistic is true because the friends I have are mostly always happy, laughing, not getting caught up in other people's’ lives, and having hope for their future. Rather than my old friends I use to hang around, they were negative, talked bad about others, judged people for not having luxury items others had. Now that I have new friends, my family have told me they have seen a big attitude change in my life. Even though we all have our bad days, I’m more optimistic, helping others, laughing and not being rude to other people. Sometimes change is good for a person and helps them reach the things they want to