Book Report On The Catcher In
I found the "Catcher In The Rye" to be one of the best books I've ever read. I found it more interesting than books such as "The Crucible", "Great Gatsby", and even Ben Franklin's "Autobiography". Writer Jerome David Salinger has peiced together a great novel.
In New York City, 1919, Salinger was born. With his father, Sol, being a food importer, and having an average mother, Miriam, noone knows where he attained his natural love for theatre. Growing up with his sister Doris, he attended public school in Manhattan. Having average grades, with Arithmic being his worst subject. Apparently, being rumored to be a quiet, polite boy, nicknamed "Sonny". At 15, he attended Valley Forge ...
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Prep, a boy's school in Pennsylvania, to the end where an obviously senile Holden, back at the rest home, claims he will be able to leave soon and that he will go back to school next September. I found the ending to be anti-climactic, but it was still pretty humorus.
The overall book seems to be more of a confession than a story, but it provides an entertaining change. The grizzled Holden "spills his guts" to a psychoanylist, revealing an entertaining plot to an entertaining book. One of the most important "angles" in the story is that the narrator is in an awkward psychlogical state.
Also, there seem to be a few discrepancies in the novel, placing the claims of Holden against actual events in the book. Although there could be a realistic argument, I believe that this is just a form of expression of Holden's seline state, being that he is very old at the time of the story telling. Some may believe that this is just a sign that Salinger himself is the one that belongs ...
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