In the smorgasbord of the world's greatest novels, there is one that stands out
             above others. The Catcher in the Rye is read year after year, without fail, by High School
             students. Most teenagers can relate to this novel because in J.D. Salinger's first and most
             famous work, he enters the mind of a typical teenager who is trying to find himself in the
             society. Holden Caulfield, the main character/narrator, is a household word when it
             comes to Literature. This is because he is a well developed character. But every character
             must change during the course of their story. Throughout this novel, Holden changes as
             he realizes that he can no longer be what he imagines himself to be ("The Catcher in the
             Rye"), the one who preserves innocence, by defending them from the harsh reality of a
             The first time Holden begins to realize that he is powerless to defend others is on
             his way into Phoebe's school. As he is walking up the stairs of the school, he notices the
             words "Fuck you" written on the wall. "I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids
             would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant and then...some...kid would
             tell them...and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple
             of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it" (201), he said. This shows that he
             believes in sheltering children so much that he would use violence to achieve that. Later,
             when he's in the museum, he sees it written again. He then realizes that it is hopeless to
             go around to all the "Fuck you's" written in the world and erase them. There are too
             many "Fuck you's" written in the world and he can't erase all of them. He said that even
             after he dies, someone will write "Fuck you" on his tombstone.
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