Catcher In The Rye Research Paper

High school students go through a lot in their four years in High School and one of these things is the many novels that they have read in their English class. These novels can span from a man finding his purpose to a man who had to kill his best friend in order to move on in his life. These novels all have individual themes and messages that relate to everyone in unique ways, but even with these differences the books still relate to each other in a very significant way. All of these books relate back to human nature and you can learn something different about life from each one of these books. Overall, these books serve as a great learning tool for high school students because the books give different lessons about life that will help them on their next journey. The first lesson that many freshman in High School receive is from …show more content…
Salinger, Holden Caulfield says “A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I’m going to apply myself when I go back to school next September. It’s such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is you don’t.” (Salinger, 234). This quote show a very important theme from the book, in life you will make decisions and it only up to you to make these decisions that will have an affect on your future. Holden is a very different kid who has been through some hard times in his life but has always had the dream of being the catcher in the rye. This means that he would be in the rye catching kids as the ran off the cliffs so that they would be saved. Throughout the book, Holden makes many decisions, some bad and some good, but they all go back to his goal of being the catcher. Overall, this book teaches people the lesson that the future is theirs and what they decide to do with it is up to them. The next lesson is similar to this and delivers a message about finding your purpose in the