CATCHER IN THE RYE Salinger, Jerome David. 214 pages New York: Little, Brown and Company 1991 Holden Caulfield was a teenage boy who was dropping out from a boarding school thrice before. Caulfield's journey starts when he supposed to return home and tell his parents that he was dropped out (again), yet he escaped instead. In my personal perspective, although Caulfield didn’t pass many subjects at school he was not a stupid student-- this is the major reason why he was dropped out along with his lose temper attitude. He just did not know why he must study those subjects and why he must achieve the best score, with a long term perspective; what does he want to be in the future. Caulfield big brother was a successful young folk who migrated to Hollywood as a writer whereas his little sister, he admitted was a brilliant young girl, she was so smart and either was his little brother who had passed away. Caulfield then stayed in a motel in Manhattan for a few days; got drunk, did some random things and partially attempted to see an ex-girlfriend, his little sister, and eventually his ex-history teacher from his former school to lamented. Overall, in a nutshell, this novel is about teenage rebellion. Was born in new year's 1919 Salinger had created a notable fiction literature although with some controversial. In some countries this novel had been banned due to a suspicion of communism and socialist content. Holden perspective in questioning life and the way he act in the whole story reflecting socialists' aim of life. He was in a serious alienation phase as an adolescence, feeling frustration and very emotional. However, in the end of the story-line Holden figured out what he wanted to be: the Catcher in the Rye. In his interpretation catcher in the rye has a duty to protect the children when they are playing in the rye field so that they are not slipping off the cliff. This novel can be considered as a light and thin novel that you can read in a whole day with a cup of tea or hot chocolate in a lazy weekend. The plot is easy-reading, even though in the beginning it was a little bit boring, particularly in the first chapter, but afterwards I could not stop the rest chapter as I myself had ever known how Holden feels when I was a teenager. Holden Caulfield skeptical thinking along with his bad words could dragged us back as a teenagers, at least in a point of view.
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