Innocence is not just an idea. “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”- Bo Bennett. In the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Holden learns to view his little sister as independent and self-actualized where she can lose her innocence and still be stainless. The book is about a character named Holden, he is constantly trying to identify who he is and how he views people he cares about until in the end he recognizes that innocence is in a cycle. Some things repeat again and again and they are clearly important. The symbols in the Catcher in the Rye like the red hunting hat and the carousel depict the message that innocence is a cycle and children should take risks.
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The insight this quote provides is that the red hunting hat was passed between Holden and Phoebe and the hat represents Holden's innocence. That is significant because holden goes in and out of innocence like a cycle and the hat is a symbol for that. Holden likes the small things about his sister and he is observant and cares. The people Holden cares about, he wants to protect and saver like his sister, Phoebe: “She likes those kind of crazy hats. She didn't want to take it, but I made her¨ (Salinger 199). This exemplifies Holden's older brother role and how he cares about Phoebe despite this being necessary for their relationship the hat still represents the symbol for innocence with its color red. This symbol of the red hunting hat reveals how taking it on and off is an option and at the end of the book Phoebe gives it back to him this gives insight to the fact that it can be taken on and then off again just like a
The insight this quote provides is that the red hunting hat was passed between Holden and Phoebe and the hat represents Holden's innocence. That is significant because holden goes in and out of innocence like a cycle and the hat is a symbol for that. Holden likes the small things about his sister and he is observant and cares. The people Holden cares about, he wants to protect and saver like his sister, Phoebe: “She likes those kind of crazy hats. She didn't want to take it, but I made her¨ (Salinger 199). This exemplifies Holden's older brother role and how he cares about Phoebe despite this being necessary for their relationship the hat still represents the symbol for innocence with its color red. This symbol of the red hunting hat reveals how taking it on and off is an option and at the end of the book Phoebe gives it back to him this gives insight to the fact that it can be taken on and then off again just like a