Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, symbolism is expressed in many forms. Each symbol has a hidden meaning waiting to be discovered. Once explored, Holden's life and the true meaning of Catcher in the Rye are revealed. Holden often thinks about t...

Cheerful, carefree, easygoing... These are the opposite description of growing up. The book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger should be read by all for it has the ability to pull the reader in so that he or she may be able to relate his or her own personal life to the characters in the story...

There has been many controversies over The Catcher in the Rye and whether it should be banned from schools due to complaints of the content not being appropriate, such as such as, language and sexual references. I believe that all these issues contribute to the ultimate message of this novel. Hold...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, is a novel about teenage angst and the struggle to be accepted by society. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, is a seventeen year old kid that has a problem with everything in life, from the books people read to the way people act. Holden has a language pro...

In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield struggles to accept the idea that a Fall is inevitable until he experiences one of his own. The Fall is the loss of innocence and the first encounter with "deceit, duplicity, and evil" in the world. It is a process necessary to "psychological growth" that m...

The Language of Cather in the Rye The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield's vulg...

Without a doubt, J.D. Salinger is one of the best twentieth-century America authors. He is best known for his book, Catcher in the Rye, a book about a seventeen-year-old teenager, struggling through his teenager years, falling into a depression and trying to understand the real world. The straightf...

J.D Salinger's Catcher in the Rye depicts a young teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who gets kicked out of private schools continuously and stays in New York City before returning home to tell his family of his failure. Salinger's main focus in the novel is Holden's maturing and growing. Maturity is sh...

Holden's Breakdown10/1/99 "It's not the last straw which broke the camel's back." In J.D. Salanger's, Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has many mental breakdowns. Though it may not have been one solitary event that pushed him off the edge, the one thing that...

So, where do the ducks go in winter...?"The Catcher in the Rye" is a disturbing, yet excellent story about the trials of the day-to-day life of a teenage boy. It has been incredibly written by J.D. Salinger, and it portrays the boy's reactions to the different people and aspects of American societ...

JD salingers book, "Catcher in the rye" captures a few days in the life of Holden Caulfield. Holden's journey of self descovery begins when he is kicked out of Pencey College. Holden's feelings, the people he encounters and often his concerns are revealed to the reader thr...

The Catcher In The Rye The Catcher In The Rye is a book that should be kept on the shelves of bookstores and public libraries for all time. It is a book that actually relates to the issues and problems that many teens deal with. This book is not a book of advice by any means, but it shows how the ...

Banning a Classic? There is still a big controversy over whether The Catcher in the Rye should be required reading at the high school level. Some people feel The Catcher in the Rye should be required reading because it helps people grow and learn more about life and living. Others feel that it i...

A dream cannot exist without another person. The Catcher in the Rye illustrates the American dream by revealing the heartaches one must go through while growing up and finding their place in society. Holden Caulfield is amazed by peoples' "phoniness". He believes that no one is truly real and th...

Holden Caulfield is driven by jealousy. His inability to be a "ladies man" or an academic success causes him to label these types of people as being "phony" in order to overcome his own insecurities and faults. The word "phony" is correctly applied in some cases th...

J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye has been accused of excess vulgarity and banned from highschool classrooms, however close examination reveals it is merely the expression of a disturbed adolescent and therefore appropriate. Salinger's background and adolescence can be exa...

Over the years schools have been banning the book The Catcher In The Rye by J.D Salinger because of several different reasons. The frequent use of profanity, the web of lies he creates, and the assumption that all teens do is drink. These three different factors dub the book unethical and may co...

Teenagers everywhere have experienced an emotional bond with the characters Huckleberry Fin, Henry Fleming, and Holden Caulfield while reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, and The Catcher in the Rye. Huck's adventure down the Mississippi, Henry's challen...

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 ...

The novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield he narrates the novel from a psychiatric facility were he is recuperating from a emotional breakdown. Holden is kicked out of his current school Pencey Prep including many others that he was kicked out o...

Holden Caulfield: Not a typical teenager In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher and the Rye, a young boy struggles through his teenage years. Some commentators have argued that Holden Caulfield is a typical sixteen-year-old. I disagree with that statement and believe Holden was far from a...

One of the main things that adults should understand about teenagers from Catcher in the Rye is that teenagers are under a lot of stress. It sounds dumb like, "Oh boo hoo you have to do homework and go to soccer practice poor baby" but there's a lot more to it than that. Clearly this ...

These darn teenagers, they have no respect for society. Everyone has heard a comment that makes a point similar to this. The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, takes this statement from another point of view -- the cynical teenager's. The narrator, Holden Caulfield, is a sixteen-...

Loneliness, and Being in A Group "Why do people always make me feel like a loser? No wonder I'm a loner. For some reason . . . like nothing I do is good enough for them . . . I am just sick of being some loser . . . I guess I'm used to it; not like I ever had a great social life. Hell, not ...

Throughout the novel, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield's actions conveyed his deteriorating mental health. Holden endured a troubled childhood and adolescence. Several years prior to the opening of the novel, Holden's younger brother, Allie, died of leukemia. Since then, v...