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... the only grown-up with "all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all." He'll stand on the edge of a cliff and catch anybody who starts to fall off the edge of the cliff. He got this image from his misinterpretation of a line from the Robert Burns poem, " if a body catch a body comin' through the ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousand 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 have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That ... ...
... he would be the guardian of childhood innocence, and it symbolizes how he would save kids from growing up and becoming fake sanctimonious adults. He would be "standing on the edge of some crazy cliff [catching] everybody if they [started] to go over the cliff That's all [he'd] do all day. [He'd] just be the catcher in the rye. "(Salinger, 224 ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye 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 ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye 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 ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, nobodys around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And Im 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 theyre running and they dont look theyre going ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye 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 ... ...
... ideal Holden gets is disrupted by Phoebe. Holden's idea this time is to hitch hike out west pretending to be a deaf mute. He wants to live in a cabin by the edge of the woods and one day marry another deaf mute. When Phoebe finds out about Holden's plan she packs her suitcase. She refuses to let him go without her. " "Why ... ...
... Holden wants to protect the innocence of little kids. In the novel he told Phoebe that he wants to be the catcher in the rye, he would stand at the edge of a cliff as children play around with him, and he would catch them before they ran too close to the cliff. Holden does not wan to see children go through ... ...
... these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye 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 ... ...
... was his responsibility to protect the innocence of all children. As a result he developed a job that he would like to have-- "a catcher in the rye." He would stand at the edge of a cliff and catch the kids who were about to fall off. This meant that if someone was about to lose their innocence, Holden would save them. If it weren ... ...
... was his responsibility to protect the innocence of all children. As a result he developed a job that he would like to have-- "a catcher in the rye." He would stand at the edge of a cliff and catch the kids who were about to fall off. This meant that if someone was about to lose their innocence, Holden would save them. If it weren ... ...
... impulses. Holden is attracted to the ways of adulthood, the sex, the drinking, etc.. This in turn forces Holden's character to be protective of children and innocence. "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 going I have to come out from ... ...
... sees himself in a world with no adults and he as the only "big" person. His job is to stand at the end of this great field of rye at the edge of a cliff keeping little children from falling off. The cliff represents the adulthood that he is so disillusioned with and wants to avoid. He is also trying to stop everyone ... ...
... . And Holden then decides that he will be like "the catcher in the rye", and protect the innocent children. In on of Holden's dreams he sees himself standing at the edge of a cliff watching little children running around care free. As the children run towards the cliff they are so involved in their running around, that they don't even see it ... ...
... rye is whom Holden desperately wants to be when "all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye"(173), and he would be "standing on the edge of some crazy cliff"(173) and "catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff"(173). Holden just wants to be the protector of children or innocence from the ... ...
... all these little kids playing a game in this big field of rye 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 off the cliff" (Salinger 173). Holden's love for children is centered on his ... ...
