People who don't like this book depress the hell out of me. It's one of the few things that I can think of that I get a big kick out of.
When you finish reading this masterpiece you'll wish that old Salinger was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you like. This novel is so deep and realistic that I lack the ability to properly do it justice. Its obvious that his mental state and overall outlook on life has been largely shaped by his brother's death. He had a younger brother named Allie who died of leukemia a few years prior to the narration who he thinks the world of. Practically the only person in the entire novel that he is able to communicate with is his little sister, Phoebe. Holden has a very cynical outlook on other people and is constantly wondering if there exists a place in which he can truly feel a part of. The Catcher in the Rye is a classic novel narrated by Holden Caulfield, a depressed and lonely teenager who shuns the world of adults and all its phoniness, and dreams of catching children from falling off a cliff. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is how many pages it is and what year it was written, and all that pointless kind of crap, but that stuff bores me, if you want to know the truth. Old Phoebe didn't say anything for a long time."Īny open-minded individual can relate to Holden in their past or in their own life as of now.Īn absolute masterpiece. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I'd just be the CATCHER IN THE RYE and all. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're runni ng and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. "I thought it was "If a body meet a body,"' I said 'Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
It is "If a body meet a body coming through the rye." I didn't know it then, though. 'It's "If a body meet a body coming through the rye"!' old Phoebe said 'It's a poem. 'You know that song, "if I body catch a body comin' through the rye? I'd like -' "'You know what I'd like to be? I mean if it'd be my goddamn choice'"?
WHAT IS THE CATCHER IN THE RYE FULL
It's full of refernces to "Sex", lot's of swearing, and a few refernces to "Drugs", and full of " Alchohal" It was banned by many high schools, and is probaly proclaimed the most banned book in the last century. I loved " The Catcher in the Rye" when i read it on my own, but now that my teachers RUINED it for me, i kinda try to avoid it.Ĭatcher in the rye is about a kid named Holden Cualfield going through life over a few days period. I dont like reading it in school beacause my teachers read way into all the meanings and symbolism and crap. Its overlooked by most people because its a " school book" Catcher In The Rye is the only good book I ever read in highschool. He struggles with alienation, nihilism, and disillusionment with the modern, post-industrial captitalist state. Any adolescent who reads this book should beable to relate to the narrator, Holden Caulfield.
Fascinating, stream of consiousness style by the famouse recluse author J.D. Guy #1: Hey do u like the Catcher in the Rye? but these haters are all really idiots and hypocites who act like they never said a curse or thought about sex in their whole life. The catcher in the Rye - what does it mean?Ī really great book that most people find disturbing just because it has too many curses and sex and stuff.