The Catcher in the Rye In "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger, the first person narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nigh...

The Catcher in the Rye In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, thre...

People ought to be careful about what they say. Throughout the book The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden, the main character, has a major conflict with society, he abominates people that act phony. Salinger portrays Holden to demonstrate how conversations can be, and are, insignifican...

This summer, my AP English reading assignment came, and one of the three books assigned was The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The letter read "a book about a prep-school boy tells of the days preceding his admittance to a mental institution," not what I was expe...

Catcher in The rye Goddamn! In this City there is nothing too see but Pocahontas. That would be all right if I was a 10 year old, or even taking my little sister too the movies. What the hell am I going to see now? Hmmm lets see, what about ordinary people? So I went to purchase a ticket and ...

The historic movement that began in the 1700's known today as the Enlightenment changed the way we thought about things. It opposed the tragic sense and fate. The Enlightenment made people examine the way they thought and posed as a great debate for the tragic sense. The Enlightenment and the l...