... develops a significant idea or theme in The Catcher in the Rye. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger is about a 17 year old boy called Holden Caulfield, and his development into adulthood. This novel was unique to the time is was written, 1951, due to the fact that books almost never had a teenager boy as the protagonist, and his views upon the world, the book is narrated in a broken up and cynical voice and ... Holden finds many phoney things about the adult world that he tries to protect himself against. Firstly, there is the issue of Holdens childhood, his identity and th...

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... sources to create a new product (much like much other American culture and this film in particular.) This Hamlet is typically American, grounded thoroughly in the culture and aesthetic of that nation (dressed in the wardrobe of the early to mid-nineties grunge music movement ) and influenced by its icons. In J.D.Salinger's classic novel, The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield (the novel's hero/ anti-hero) comments on Olivier's Hamlet: "..terrific voice helluva handsome guy ... of verse-delivery, in my opinion this is a production, which stays true to the original intention of the play...

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