Childhood was a secure place for Holden. It was a place that Holden thought would always predominate and never change. That’s why he only saw children and his younger sister Phoebe as innocent. Holden doesn’t want his sister to grow up and change, and have the adult world affect her the way it does him. In Holden’s mind, children are naïve, and that was the way he wants to preserve it. He shows his opinion by observing, “ All the kids kept trying to grab the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe,

Most people spend the majority of their youth striving to grow up at a relatively fast speed. But Holden wants to save children from what they will encounter once they start to walk the path of real life and start losing their innocence. His quest of finding a pure and innocent adolescence drives him to dreaming of being a “catcher in the rye”. This dream is of saving children who are falling off a cliff of rye field. In other words, this symbolizes the innocent children playing in the childhood and saving them before they fall into the real world, the world of adulthood and “phoniness”. Perhaps, the most innocence place of all, to Holden, is the Museum of Natural History. Thinking of his memories at the museum, Holden reflects,” The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody would move. You could go there a hundred times…nobody would change. The only thing that would be different, would be you “ (121).Holden wants to preserve the childhood innocence for Phoebe and he wants to put her in one of those glass cases where everything is frozen, and leave her the way she is. He shows his opinion by saying, “Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that’s impossible, but it’s too bad anyways” (122). He fights against change, even though he knows that it is inevitable. Well, my brother was the one who wanted to save me from growing up. Every time his friend that liked me came over and tried to talk to me, my brother would get into a big argument with him telling him to leave me alone and telling me to stay the way I am and not to let older guys corrupt me. He didn’t want me to experience all the horrible things life’s path was carrying, just like Holden doesn’t want his sister to become threatened by the society.

The title is a significant part of the book. It tells you what the book is about. The title “The Catcher in the Rye” clearly connects to the Holden’s view of innocence. He wants to be a catcher in the rye, or to save the children from falling into the real world and losing their innocence. The catcher in the rye is the only thing Holden wants to become and the title tells us that right away, even though the reader does not find that out until the towards the end of a book. He tells Phoebe that that’s what he’d like to be when he visited her at home, “I mean if the children are running and they don’t look where they’re gong I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That

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