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The Catcher in the Rye description Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | One of the greatest novels of all time |
| Reading this book I understand that it has been consdidered as one of the greatest books of all time.
The story is bascially about a young troubled boy named Holden Caufield. He is angry at the world while he is trying to deal with the death of his brother. When he begins the story he had just gotten kicked out of the school for the third time. He gets so angry with his roomates or as he calls them phonies. I believe that the theme of the story is to not runaway from your problems but face them. The best thing about this book is how the author wrote it. Instead of writing the normal way, he writes what he thinks. I totally recommened this book. I love this book! |
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