Catcher in the Rye Vs Huckleberry Finn
J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye Compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn All famous American authors have written novels using a variety of characters, plots, and settings to illustrate important themes. Throughout literary history many of the same themes have been stressed in different novels. In J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, each author writes about the common theme of coming of age. The two novels were written more than half a century apart about two boys who seem like complete opposites, yet they bear striking resemblances to each other. Each author wrote his book depicting settings from his own past and based the plots on personal experiences. While the two novels are in different times and places, they have remarkably similar characters, plots, and themes. To completely understand the two novels, it is necessary to know about each author's background and how he got the ideas to write them. J. D. Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 in New York City. His father was a Jewish importer, his mother a Scott-Irish housewife, and he had one older sister. His parents were divorced in September 1947 before he began his career as an author. He grew up in
He watched in the rain and his dream shattered because he could do nothing to prevent any coming of age, and at this is the time Holden passed into adulthood ("Salinger" CLC Vol. James Miller says he is one of the most controversial writers yet, and he is greeted with praise as well as condemnation ("Salinger" CLC Vol. Holden Caulfield's rebellion against fake people or "phonies" shows the rejection of some adult qualities, leading into the major themes: innocence and coming of age ("Salinger" CA 332). This is the innocence of a spotless childhood in the ordinary involvements of life. First he rebelled against society, then he was inspired by his honesty against phoniness, and he finally realized what a small role he actually played ("Salinger" CLC Vol. In The Catcher in the Rye innocence is a compound of urban intelligence, juvenile contempt, and New Yorker sentimentality. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Twain's Huckleberry Finn have much in common just as Salinger and Twain did in their lives.
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