J.D. Salinger’s controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye, was first published in 1951 and was originally published for adults. As popularity grew for the book so did his audience and Salinger’s novel soon became popular with teenagers. The story is a three day narration of events that happen to Holden Caulfield beginning at his boarding school Pencey Prep and ending in a hospital in California. Holden is a troubled youth who struggles to find his place in the world and is having a hard time growing up. He believes the world is full of phonies especially in the adult world and he begins to search for his place in life. Holden believes that children are truly innocent and pure and that they should be protected. One of the main themes
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Jane’s was Holden’s next door neighbor and he first met her when Jane’s dog kept getting in his family’s backyard. They struck up a friendship and ended spending the whole summer together. One of their favorite pastimes was playing checkers and Holden really enjoyed how Jane kept all her kings in the back row. “Yeah. She wouldn’t move any of her kings. What she’d do, when she get a king, she wouldn’t move it. She’d just leave it in the back row. Then she’d never use them. She just like the way they looked when they were all in the back row”. (Salinger 36) Holden’s memory of Jane keeping her kings in the back row is symbolic of her …show more content…
and I used to go to the park with her, she was mad about the carrousel. You couldn’t get her off the goddam thing” (Salinger 231). At first, Phoebe is hesitant to get on the carrousel thinking she is too old to ride it, but Holden convinces her to. For Holden, Phoebe enjoying herself on the carrousel is the heart of what childhood should be, pure and innocent. As he watches Phoebe he notices that like all the other kids, they keep grabbing for the gold ring. “All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall of the goddam horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything (Salinger 232). At that moment, Holden realizes that sometimes you have to let kids fall sometimes and you can’t always be “The Catcher in the
Jane’s was Holden’s next door neighbor and he first met her when Jane’s dog kept getting in his family’s backyard. They struck up a friendship and ended spending the whole summer together. One of their favorite pastimes was playing checkers and Holden really enjoyed how Jane kept all her kings in the back row. “Yeah. She wouldn’t move any of her kings. What she’d do, when she get a king, she wouldn’t move it. She’d just leave it in the back row. Then she’d never use them. She just like the way they looked when they were all in the back row”. (Salinger 36) Holden’s memory of Jane keeping her kings in the back row is symbolic of her …show more content…
and I used to go to the park with her, she was mad about the carrousel. You couldn’t get her off the goddam thing” (Salinger 231). At first, Phoebe is hesitant to get on the carrousel thinking she is too old to ride it, but Holden convinces her to. For Holden, Phoebe enjoying herself on the carrousel is the heart of what childhood should be, pure and innocent. As he watches Phoebe he notices that like all the other kids, they keep grabbing for the gold ring. “All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall of the goddam horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything (Salinger 232). At that moment, Holden realizes that sometimes you have to let kids fall sometimes and you can’t always be “The Catcher in the