Innocence Compassion and some Crazy Cliff
A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J.D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and perils, which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and squalor in the grasps of society. The bridge that lies between these contrasting themes are personified through the novel's protagonist, Holden Caul-field and his visualization of a cliff, which depicts a dividing point between the evident beginning and end. The connection, which binds this gap in reality, was made clear through a new found compassion, consummating Holden's place in society through the realization of his surroundings from which he successfully crosses over. Focusing on the rebellious and confused actuality of adolescents stuck between the innocence of childhood and the corruptness of the adult world, this novel strikes a cord, which most adolescents can relate. The essence of the story The Catcher in the Rye follows the forty-eight hour escapade of sixteen-
After his expulsion from Pency, a fashionable prep school, the lat-est in a long line of expulsions, Holden has a few confrontations with his fellow students and leaves shortly after to return to his hometown, New York City. Secondly, it crystallizes for us Holden's concept of good and evil; childhood is good, the only pure good, but it is surrounded by perils, the cliff of adolescence over which the children will plunge in the evil of adulthood unless stopped. year-old Holden Caulfield, told through first person narration. Under an apparent cloak of secrecy, the real story of Salinger lies incomplete and myste-rious. He even expresses that he misses all the people who did wrong to him. " Salinger attended public schools on Manhattan's upper West Side and during his high school years he transferred to the pri-vate McBurney School, where he flunked out after one year. In the heart of New York City, Holden spends the following two days hiding out to rest before confronting his parents with the news. To the lifeline of this vision he clings invinci-bly, as he does to a phonograph record he buys for Phoebe (till it breaks) and a red hunting cap that is dear to him and that he finally gives to Phoebe, and to Allie's baseball glove. On the subject of innocence and symbolism there of, which is repre-sented through Holden's thoughts and actions, S. Behrman writes:"Holden's difficulties affect his nervous system but never his vision. J(erome) D(avid) Salinger, is an American author, who controversially dared to cross the line of literary standards. Later he fatefully comes in contact with his sister once again, at the Central Park carrousel in the final scene of the novel. After graduation in 1936, Salinger enrolled in a short-story writing course at Columbia Univer-sity in New York and began publishing some of his short stories. The books in this short story collection include Franny and Zooey (1961), and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean- except me.
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