Catcher In The Rye

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book so much and label it as one of my favorites.
For those of you who have not had the opportunity to hold grasp of this book and read it, it is superficially, the story of a young man’s expulsion from school. However, if you study the story, it is so much more than that.
Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in the 1950s in New York, has been expelled from prep school for poor achievement. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school for a few days prior to the end of term and goes to New York to take a “vacation” before returning home to his parents. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden’s thoughts and activities over the few days which ultimately leaves him exhausted, emotionally ill and in a state of mental collapse. Holden provides the novel with his ideas and emotions; because of this it is very important to pay careful attention to his thoughts as well as his actions.
Tired and weary of high school and the world around him, a confused and ...

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many reasons why I claim this book to be my favorite. There are very few books that I have read where I can empathize with the main character so well. Being a teenager myself is yet another reason why I can relate. Like Holden, I have been through many traumatizing experiences (death of Holden’s brother and classmate) that has left me to think so critically of the world around me. Out of place and not feeling that we belong with the society around us, it has conditioned us to be social outcasts by our own expense.
During all of Holden’s psychological battle, life continues on around him as it always had, with the majority of people ignoring the ‘madman stuff’ that was happening to ...

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