By Armish Khan
From the moment of birth to the moment of death, individuals during their journey of growing up lose their innocence that they once cherished and aren’t able to escape the reality of maturity. The loss of innocence is an inevitable process that one cannot hold onto merely. Individuals don’t have the ability to preserve their innocence that they did during their childhood because as they grow up, people surround themselves in environments that expose them to the real world. Therefore, growing up is a process that involves being with certain people and through them, one’s innocence is erased and is taken away from them. However, in the novel called “The Catcher in the Rye”, written by J.D Salinger, the main character Holden Caulfield, …show more content…
For example, through hardship Holden learns that with a greater amount knowledge that one discovers and has within themselves the loss of innocence comes with a price. Thus, in Holden’s eyes he isn’t able to coop with his brother Allie’s death, the death of a pure innocence who suffered for no reason and died. For Holden Allie was the truth and represented a symbol of pure innocence, while everyone else was a “phony”. This reality makes it hard for Holden to accept the truth but, causes him to see everyone else that surrounds him as a phony, people who conform to the social norms instead of acting against it. To him falling is if individuals loose their innocence and when they loose their innocence they become a phony. However, Holden does not realize that he also has fallen down in the midst of his actions and also has became a phony. Allie’s death set’s Holden’s ultimate fall in the novel because after his death, he becomes mentally unstable, breaks all the garage windows and lastly, his view of the world changes. To Holden Allie dying wasn’t fair to him because Allie was an innocent soul who suffered for no reason when in truth people like Stradlater who are the phony conceited people get to live. Holden feels that it is his responsibility to catch children who are in need of rescuing because when Allie and Holden fell down the cliff no one was their to catch them and rescue them from their fall. As a result, Holden wants to save everyone including him and wants to protect their innocence from fading away. Hence, when Holden questions the cab drivers about where the ducks in the park go, Sunny who demands Holden for more money even though the both of them did not sleep together, all of those actions causes Holden to question about where the innocence of people has been lost away too. Holden doesn’t understand why people’s innocence
From the moment of birth to the moment of death, individuals during their journey of growing up lose their innocence that they once cherished and aren’t able to escape the reality of maturity. The loss of innocence is an inevitable process that one cannot hold onto merely. Individuals don’t have the ability to preserve their innocence that they did during their childhood because as they grow up, people surround themselves in environments that expose them to the real world. Therefore, growing up is a process that involves being with certain people and through them, one’s innocence is erased and is taken away from them. However, in the novel called “The Catcher in the Rye”, written by J.D Salinger, the main character Holden Caulfield, …show more content…
For example, through hardship Holden learns that with a greater amount knowledge that one discovers and has within themselves the loss of innocence comes with a price. Thus, in Holden’s eyes he isn’t able to coop with his brother Allie’s death, the death of a pure innocence who suffered for no reason and died. For Holden Allie was the truth and represented a symbol of pure innocence, while everyone else was a “phony”. This reality makes it hard for Holden to accept the truth but, causes him to see everyone else that surrounds him as a phony, people who conform to the social norms instead of acting against it. To him falling is if individuals loose their innocence and when they loose their innocence they become a phony. However, Holden does not realize that he also has fallen down in the midst of his actions and also has became a phony. Allie’s death set’s Holden’s ultimate fall in the novel because after his death, he becomes mentally unstable, breaks all the garage windows and lastly, his view of the world changes. To Holden Allie dying wasn’t fair to him because Allie was an innocent soul who suffered for no reason when in truth people like Stradlater who are the phony conceited people get to live. Holden feels that it is his responsibility to catch children who are in need of rescuing because when Allie and Holden fell down the cliff no one was their to catch them and rescue them from their fall. As a result, Holden wants to save everyone including him and wants to protect their innocence from fading away. Hence, when Holden questions the cab drivers about where the ducks in the park go, Sunny who demands Holden for more money even though the both of them did not sleep together, all of those actions causes Holden to question about where the innocence of people has been lost away too. Holden doesn’t understand why people’s innocence