What Is The Moral Of The Catcher In The Rye

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Kids these days, have a lot of problems with their family, friends, school and all that good stuff. We can’t really blame them because, each of us will have to go through that phase at one point in our life. One of them happens to be Holden. There’s nothing wrong with him, the things that are causing him problem are the things surrounding him and effecting his perspective and the way he thinks. Holden is in a stage where everything in his life is hitting him at once and that’s the reason we are investigating and finding out the best solution for Holden.
Holden is a very bright kid I must say, but he is also a teenager who is going through and dealing with a lot of things at the moment. He is the type of kid where he says he doesn’t care about

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