... relationships, intimacy as his difficulty in calling Jane Gallagher, and his date with Sally Hayes, which went terribly wrong because of his rudeness. Adolescents can relate to these type of problems because they go through this in their lives in present day just as Holden had 50 years earlier. I recommend "The Catcher in the Rye" to teenagers because adolescents are able to relate to it ... and it's a classic novel. Adolescent life in the 1950's and today has changed drastically, however, the experiences of teenagers are universal and are also similarly apparent today, therefore it is ...

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The Catcher in the Rye Some may say that the main character of J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is merely the average teenager, although he seems to think about sex and women quite a lot for his age of sixteen. This point can be easily argued in many ways, one example being the time Holden called a perfect stranger, Faith Cavendish, to get together at an unruly time of night. Another ... himself that "I know more damn perverts than anybody you've ever met, and they"re always being perverty when I"m around". In conclusion, the central character is an abnormal you...

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... 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 the symbol of the red hunting cap....

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... and American J.D. Salinger's respective masterpieces, The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951), examine the universal themes of personal relationships within the context of painful change. Each did that in his own way: Kafka portrayed familial support and sympathy as necessary to the alleviation of pain, while Salinger suggested that to truly grow up is to come to terms with one's relationships and ... ultimately one's role in society. Though the ... resolved, he "felt so damn happy"-which was, at least, an improvement from before (213). Though Metamorphosis and Catcher...

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... going to apply himself next year, but having had the experiences and pain he describes it seems logical that he has matured and learnt about himself. When Holden tries to rub out the graffiti at Phoebe's school in order to protect the minds of the innocent children he is becoming the catcher in the rye. This is reinforced at the end of the book when he purports to miss everyone mentioned, one ... feels that he would like to have protected them and caught them in the rye like the children, he doesn't want them to have grown ... up. In this way at least he is defining himself by his own ...

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... diction which made him special. In the bildungsroman Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden's trouble and insecure personality is modeled by his unique speech and diction in that he has an idiosyncratic speech pattern, uses certain grammar, crude language, and has an adaptable vocabulary. Holden Caulfield's idiosyncratic speech pattern portrays his looseness and his self-consciousness in his personality. His ... This may be because of his high level of education, and also, perhaps, the subject of English was the only class he was not failing in school. Holden's grammar shapes his in...

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