... he would have liked to be was a catcher in the rye. He invented an illusion for himself of a strange fantasy. He stated that he would like to follow a poem by Robert Burns: If a body catch a body coming' through the rye. He kept picturing all 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'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. Holden wants to stop children from falling into losing their innocence and becoming an adult, and he takes...

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• Grade Level: High School

... gives the story substance and interest in the readers' eyes. This statement is also the case in J. D Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye as the protagonist Holden Caulfield goes on a journey of self-discovery resulting in change in his overall view of the world around him. Throughout the novel, Holden is driven by the idea of preserving the innocence of children and sheltering them from the adult world, but as the story progresses he comes to the realization ... as the novel progresses. Throughout the entire novel, Holden is constantly fighting the idea of growing up and entering th...

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... , he has found a new role in keeping the innocence of other children protected. If he cannot protect himself he will protect the others. Both the "catcher" and the "deaf-mute" are there for a single desire: a wish to escape from an adult world in which he feels hat he can not belong. He seems himself as "the catcher in the rye", the only adult in a world of children: Anyway, I keep picturing all 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 cl...

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• Grade Level: High School