... missing everybody" (Salinger 214). That quote from the main character in The Catcher in the Rye is very much like something the author, J.D. Salinger would say. J.D. Salinger, drawing from his own personal experiences, wrote the controversial and much debated The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has given him much of his reputation and has been banned in many schools and public libraries (J.D. ... Salinger, Lomazoff). J.D. Salinger, or Jerome Davis Salinger, was born in New York City in 1919 to Jewish Sol Salinger and the ... were combined into three books. These books were later put tog...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ... nice to watch when's he's walking or duelling or something but he wasn't the way D.B said Hamlet was too much like a ...

• Word Count: 2290
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lack of Communication The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy name Holden Caulfield and his struggle to communicate. This novel shows Holden's life as he jumps from school to school and the difficulties in between. Throughout the novel we witness Holden's struggle to communicate with others, which also leads to his depression. It is Holden's inability to communicate with others that adds to his problems in life ... Jane a buzz and see if she was home for vacation yet. So I went in a phone booth and called her up. The only trouble was her mother answered the phone so I had to ha...

• Word Count: 570
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School