Post War Ideas or Modern Ideas?
According to Teddy, the ten year old genius, " Logic's the first thing you have to get rid" of". Teddy says this while explaining that logic can only cause trouble while thinking of every day subjects. Is Teddy, a young boy in post WWII education, using this idea of non-logic as form of post war America or present day America. Nicholson, a teacher of post WWII education, questions Teddy on his logics and reasons. They both differ on what is and what is not logic and reasoning. Together they form a contrasting view of America and society and how it is today and how it was yester year. Salinger proposes this idea during a conversation between Teddy and Nicholson. While both Teddy and Nicholson are Salinger philosophers, their different logics and reasonings convey the ideas of post war America and present day America. By Salinger using two different philosophers in his story Teddy, he can convey two different views of two different thinking generations. The first part of Teddy and Nicholson' s conversation is that of emotions. While Teddy says "I wish I knew why people think it's so important to
Nicholson tries to tell Teddy that a wood of block ends just there because it has length and width, however Teddy interjects with "The reason things seem to stop off somewhere is because that's only way most people know how to look at things (189)". The Teddy uses is a block of wood how people logics ends so soon. The subject of dying only increases Teddy's ability to think ahead of the rest of post war society. While he tells teachers of Religion and Philosophy this, he knows that they all afraid of death since they don't know what happens to them after they do. he (Teddy's father) thinks I'm inhuman (186). Teddy is at one with himself when it comes to both Religion and Philosophy, while most people of his time do not understand the connection between them both. I don't see what they're good for (186). The next part of their conversation is logic. Nicholson finds this all hard to understand because he his mind is set in the past idea with loving your family and especially God is required and no thought of not truly loving them for their amusement.
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