... one of those scraggy guys that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee- (103). Maurice is a bully, having fallen of a cliff at an early age with many other phony adult symptoms. When discussing Stradlater, his roommate, he makes sure to include that he is secretly a slob because his toilets ... 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 th...

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... all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean except me. And I"m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff"(173). The cliff symbolizes the fall from childhood into adulthood. Holden wants to be the person who stops the children from becoming adults. He wants ... ...

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... and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That ... Holden divulges that he wishes to be the catcher in the rye, he is unveiling his desire to protect childhood innocence. Holden wants to save the pure children from the "cliff of adulthood- where phoniness is often copious. Furthermore, Holden is a...

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... a body comin" through the rye". Holden says he imagines a gigantic filed full of rye with children playing right next to a cliff. As the children come closer to the cliff he wants to catch tem and stop them from falling off the cliff. This statement has a deeper meaning, it is this. Children start out pure and honest, as they grow into adults society pollutes ... ...

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... and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean except me. And I"m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they"re running and they don't look where they"re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That ... ...

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... and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That ... ...

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... why Holden would live to be the catcher of the rye in some sense. The quote, "I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff "I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch ... ...

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... and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That ... ...

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... rye" but "If a body meets a body in the rye" he tells her that he is imagining children playing in a rye-field, while he is standing at the edge of a nearby cliff so he can catch them if they fall, and send them back to the field. Therefor he is the Catcher in the rye. The falling here is fictionally and it ... ...

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... and all." He just wanted to save the little innocent kids from falling. The kids I think represent the innocents of the young just playing and when they fall off the cliff they discover the world. He wants to protect them and keep them pure will. All through the story Salinger used Holden as the catcher on the rye to protect or ... ...

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... children as being innocent and pure. An example can been seen in the scene where Holden wants to be the "Catcher" in the Rye and stops children falling off the Cliff, which could also be symbolised as Holden wanting to catch children from falling into adulthood. Another conflict he has is with women, in his journey he meets many women and ... ...

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... had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible." Holden dreams of standing at the base of a cliff and saving many children from their death. He dreams of running in a field with them all running around him. This is where his innocence takes over. He would rather spend ... ...

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... to be "the catcher in the rye" and explains that his job would be to prevent the children, who are playing nearby in a field of rye, from going over the cliff. More distressed then ever, Holden goes to see Mr. Antolini, his former English teacher. When the teacher makes sexual advances, Holden flees in horror. Returning home, Holden experiences a complete mental ... ...

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... wishes he could feel that way again. The boy is singing one of Holden's favorite church songs. The song is about a field that children frolic around in, however there is a cliff at the end of the field which the children do not see. The song symbolizes the joy of childhood and the suddenness and harsh reality of adult life. Holden interprets ... ...

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... secure (Fitzgerald 132). This is why Holden sneaks home to see his little sister Phoebe, because he is worried about her. When he gets there, he watches her sleep and notes that adults " look lousy when they"re asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids look alright. They can even have spit all over the pillow ... ...

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