Preservation of Innocence "People never notice anything." This quote is the epitome of Holden Caulfield, the fictional teenage protagonist and narrator of author J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Holden ¨gets the ax” as he puts it, for getting kicked out of Pencey Prep. Holden roams around the streets of New York City, and try’s to take care of himself and hoping his parents get the letter, stating that he got kicked out, before he comes home for the holidays. Holden’s parents don’t realize that he might need a break for a little while because of the death of his brother, Allie.
First, the following quote is from ‘Sibling Death and Childhood Traumatic Grief’, “they may regress to earlier behavior, or develop new …show more content…
When Holden was talking to Mr. Spencer and that his equipment was in the gym and he needed to go get it. Also when Holden was at Mr. Antolini's house and he leaves his clothes at the train station and he needed to go get them. Finally, Holden misses Allie, his dead brother, all the time, and he wants to tell Phoebe about what he went through at Pencey Prep and he takes her to the Zoo and she rides the carousel and Holden watches her and cries, because this was a true example of innocence. At the end of The Catcher In The Rye, Holden says, “If you want to know the truth, I don’t know what I think about it. All I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. I think I even miss Maurice. It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you’ll start missing everybody.”(Salinger 213-214), Holden gives us that information as advice for the future for if we tell people anything. The quote “People never notice anything,” is true about what happens to Holden in The Catcher In The Rye, and what we hardly notice, as people, is not everyone notices what we we do. They act like they notice but they're not PAYING
First, the following quote is from ‘Sibling Death and Childhood Traumatic Grief’, “they may regress to earlier behavior, or develop new …show more content…
When Holden was talking to Mr. Spencer and that his equipment was in the gym and he needed to go get it. Also when Holden was at Mr. Antolini's house and he leaves his clothes at the train station and he needed to go get them. Finally, Holden misses Allie, his dead brother, all the time, and he wants to tell Phoebe about what he went through at Pencey Prep and he takes her to the Zoo and she rides the carousel and Holden watches her and cries, because this was a true example of innocence. At the end of The Catcher In The Rye, Holden says, “If you want to know the truth, I don’t know what I think about it. All I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. I think I even miss Maurice. It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you’ll start missing everybody.”(Salinger 213-214), Holden gives us that information as advice for the future for if we tell people anything. The quote “People never notice anything,” is true about what happens to Holden in The Catcher In The Rye, and what we hardly notice, as people, is not everyone notices what we we do. They act like they notice but they're not PAYING