Catcher in the Rye

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Summary: Delightful
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is a very entertaining book. It was an easy read and very realistic. It tells of Holden Caulfield, a teenager who has just been kicked out of a boarding school and tells of those he comes in contact with. He humors the reader throughout the book and I recommend this book for anyone who needs a good read!

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Summary: Exciting and Funny
Review: The Catcher in The Rye is a well written book. It is appealing to all kinds of readers. If you can sit down and read at anytime, this is definitely a book for you. Or if your the kind of reader that doesn't always have lots of time to read, this is for you too. I always hate it if I have to stop in the middle of a chapter. Well, in this book, you don't have to. The chapters are nice and short. You won't always feel like you are missing out. But in this book, it is not likely to happen. Once you start reading, you will be hooked. Probably to the character Holden Caulfield. He is a the main character of the book. You will be attracted to his spontaneous attitude and his free-speaking mind. But you wouldn't like his negativity about life. The thing is, he is not afraid to do or say anything. If he feels like doing something, he will. But there are sometimes when he won't do anything at all. His excuse is that he wasn't in the mood to do it. I know people hate to do things, but they end up doing it because they have to. For example, school work. Kids hate it, but they end up doing it. Not him. He doesn't care what happens, he doesn't care about anything that happens to him. He doesn't even care about what goes around in the world. For example, when he gets kicked out of school. He doesn't care about his parents or his future. If I got kicked out, I would freak out. Or the time when he lost all of the school's equipment. Or when he was in the park. He was soaked and out in the freezing weather. All he did was lie down on the park bench. He kept talking about how he was going to catch pneumonia and die. He didn't care if he did, all he thought about was the future. How his parents and loved ones would react. He didn't try to warm himself up or anything. But if there is something you got to love is his attitude and mind. How he is such a free-speaker and a great liar. He was such a free-thinker. He would always say what was on his mind. He would never hesitate, but he would regret a lot of things. Also, he didn't try to act in a way he wasn't. That's what he hated most, phonies. He wasn't a hypocrite either. Some people hate the way people act, but then they act just like them, not Holden. Also, I liked it when he would meet phonies, he would get so pissed at them. It killed him. One thing I admired about him was his ability to lie so well. Throughout the book Holden tells multiples lies to everybody. But he is able to say them without hesitation and he isn't concerned about what might happen next. He just goes with the flow, he is the slickest and smoothest talker I have ever seen. The thing that bothers me about him is his lack of motivation and his money management problem. He barely tries at anything. I think he is one of those people that have the skills, they just don't use them. Also, he has to learn how to manage his money. If I knew someone who blew money like that, I would be so aggravated. In all, I really enjoyed this book, and I recommend it to other readers.

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Summary: Caught in the Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is a wonderful display of the stress of adolescence. This is the first book that I have read in which I can honestly say that I relate to. Every teenager should read this book, and every parent for that matter.

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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is a wonderful portrayal of teenage life. The way in which Salinger shows Holden Caulfield going through depression is phenomonal. The things I truly liked about the book was the accuracy of teenage bitterness toward the world. This bitterness is shown by Caulfield's sarcastic views on his school and his surroundings. The phoniness in Caulfield's life and his hypocritical outbursts of phoniness in an effort to be happy as his peers are truly makes a connection to teens everywhere. The way which Caulfield views things that are happening in his life really makes you feel for Caulfield while also almost coming to hate him. Caulfield's character deals with a self caused anger at the world and needs to somehow get over it. He seems to point out everything that is wrong with the world and nothing that is right. Caulfield goes through a list of girlfriends who almost none he truly seems to like. He also seemingly has no friends with the exception of a younger sister who seems to connect to him while also noticing that his depression is caused within himself. Caulfield seems to know this throughout the novel and his actions speak loudly about the way he feels. The Catcher in the Rye is an absolute must read for teens everywhere. I do not read much but this is a book that I truly felt I connected with and I am truly happy that I picked this book up off of the shelf.

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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: The catcher in the rye is a wonderfully written novel so easy to follow with depth of expression and clarity I certainly recommend this novel to all age groups.

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Summary: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is about a 17-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield growing up in the 1940s. He has just been kicked out of Pency Prep School, and leaves shortly before Christmas break is scheduled to begin. He doesn't want his parents to know that he was kicked out, so he gets a brilliant plan to spend a couple days in New York City before heading home. In this short period of time, Holden has many adventures. One that sticks out the most to me is his night at the Lavender Room. He meets three girls visiting town from Washington. One in particular really enjoys dancing, and Holden dances with her for several songs. Another memorable moment is when Holden goes home in the middle of the night to see his sister Phoebe. She is one of the few people he truly loves. One major theme in this book is death. There is some reference to it in every chapter. Several times Holden mentions suicide. This leads you to believe he isn't exactly normal and that he will end up in the position that he explains at the end of the book. Many people ask him if he is going to apply himself when he goes back to school. He tells them he doesn't know and there is no way he would know until he actually goes back. He has a very good philosophy when he tries to explain it. This is a very good book for teenagers to read if they are trying to discover their true selves in the real world.

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Summary: The Four Days of Delirium
Review: The Catcher in The Rye is about a young adolescent male named Holden Caulfield who loses his grip of reality. The theme of catcher in the rye is Holden wanting to be a catcher of children to save them from growing up to adulthood. He has not been able to make the transition himself. This is shown by his constant finding fault with everything (the phonies) but he then justifies the phonies to make them acceptable to fit into his life. He is constantly disappointed with people and things which creates a state of anger and frustration. For him things and people are either totally right or totally wrong. He can't find the balance of reality. Holden begins the story as a young man who is dealing with just being kicked out of Prep School. He is trying to deal with the reaction to how he feels how his parents are going to react and of the perception of others on him as well. His encounters with Mr. Spencer, Ackley and his roommate Stradlater present Holden finding fault with everything (the phonies) . Nothing is good enough for him. His ramblings on throughout the book is a dialogue to the reader (or therapist) demonstrating his inability to organize his thoughts in a logical and reality base. Just as he finds distaste for many things and people, he in turn justifies the events or people as to make them not so bad. His self-deception creates a false perception thus producing his distorted view of his reality. Holden leaves the stability of the prep school to go to New York City for many experiences that would be more typical for an adult than what a young boy of his age would normally experience. He sees himself as an adult capable of drinking, having sex and just being self-sufficient. He also thinks of himself as being better than others as in his relationship to his experiences with the nuns. He wants to experience the luxuries of adulthood but not the responsibilities. In the latter part of the novel, Holden is sick physically, because of lack of sleep and proper nutrition, as well as, mentally sick. His thought constantly returned to his sister and his perception of protecting her. He doesn't want to have things change as in his reaction to the items in the museum. They stay the same. The scene where Phoebe is on the merry go round Holden finally stops assigning absolute values to things and finally breaks emotionally. He cries releasing his tears of delirium The book Catcher in the Rye has many themes and underlying ideas but one basis of confusion. Holden sees adulthood as a cliff to fall off, instead of a mountain to climb. His pessimistic perception of the world is what really does him in. He is his own worst enemy. If Holden could only realize it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose...this is not a failure, just life.

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Summary: A fantastic book
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is about a young man named Holden Caulfield's experience in New York. Holden is telling about his life about getting kicked out of school and going to New York. This book showed the people he encountered throughout his three days there. I could relate to some of the htings he did throughout the story. J.D. Salinger is a remarkable writer. This book made me want to know what was going to happen next. Since I don't read books that much, I would recommend this book to anyone who has not read it yet.

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Summary: a critical review
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is about an adolescent growing up into an adult, about 17 years old, trying to escape a world of "phony" people and rescuing young innocent lives, like his sister, from entering it. The book is a story of Holden Caulfield telling his life of a three-day adventure he had. He had recently been kicked out of his third prep school, Pencey because he was flunking every single class except English. Scared to face his parents, Holden decides to leave early from Pencey Prep and travel downtown, New York. On the way, he runs into many different people such as taxi drivers, three girls from Seattle, a prostitute, two nuns, his little sister Phoebe, and a former teacher. Holden gets sick of the friends around him at Pencey prep thinking that they are "phony"; leaving for New York only showed Holden that the entire world is "phony" also. As he tells his story, he gets into trouble and tries to find out who he is or who he wants to be. His little sister Phoebe tries to guide him to find out who he is or who he wants to be. Holden tells his sister "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids and nobody is around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I am standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they are running and they don't look where they are going. I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." Holden wants to prevent young innocence from entering the world of "phoniness". Holden is unhappy, lonely and bitter. To get away from this world of "phoniness", he figures he should go live far out west in a cabin all alone. Thinking he would be away from people, a place where nobody will know him, so he doesn't have to be involved. On his adventure for the meaning of life, he searches for a perfect relationship. He realizes that perfect relationship is the relationship he has between him and his sister.

The most memorable part of this book is the time he spends with his sister, Phoebe. When he visits her that one night just to talk to her and see her because he lover her company. Another memorable moment would be when he was talking to the nuns at breakfast and donated ten dollars. He finds a state of happiness while he was with the nuns and his sister, Phoebe. He even stated that "I felt so happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was [almost] bawling, I felt so happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why." To know that he felt this way made me feel good. This book was well written. J.D Salinger uses a style of writing where you think you were in a conversation with the main character in the book. There is no plot and the things he talks about just happen, like life. You never know what is going to happen, you just have to accept and appreciate it as God hands it down to you. He uses slang and sarcasm a lot so it seemed as if you were talking with a 17-year old adolescent. While you are "listening" to the story Holden is telling you, it is easy to relate to one of his many situations. It might come across your mind that you may have said "That has happened to me before" or "I know what he's talking about". That is the best part about this novel. Many people can relate to Holden's story. Once you get through the symbolism of the book, you will realize the things J.D Salinger tried to point out. This book is a long life lesson. People these days try to please others rather than speak their mind, which expresses the "phoniness" in people. I recommend this book to everyone because it will give people a different, fresh, and new point of view on life. If you are the type of person who likes to be kept thinking after reading a book; "The Catcher in the Rye" is the book for you.

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Summary: Catcher in The Rye
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is about an adolescent growing up into an adult, about 17 years old, trying to escape a world of "phony" people and rescuing young innocent lives. The book is a story of Holden Caulfield telling his life of a three-day adventure he had. He had recently been kicked out of his third prep school, Pencey because he was flunking every single class except English. Scared to face his parents, Holden decides to leave early from Pencey Prep and travel downtown, New York. On the way, he runs into many different people such as taxi drivers, three girls from Seattle, a prostitute, two nuns, his little sister Phoebe, and a former teacher. Holden gets sick of the friends around him at Pencey prep thinking that they are "phony"; leaving for New York only showed Holden that the entire world is "phony" also. Holden wishes to escape from this world of "phoniness" and decides he wants to be away from people, a place where nobody will know him, so he does not have to be involved. J.D Salinger has created a masterpiece. He uses a style of writing where you think you were in a conversation with the main character in the book. It's as if you were talking to Holden as he was telling you his adventure as he searches for himself. In the novel, J.D Salinger points out that Holden's little sister Phoebe would care to help him. I find the relationship Holden has with his sister is the heart of the book. Holden expresses himself to Phoebe the night he visits her, and explains to her the one thing he wants to be. "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."(pg.224-225) Holden expresses what he wants to do for the first time to Phoebe and I find this special and touching. The last scene of this novel was also very touching. Holden was at the carousel with his sister Phoebe and was watching her ride. As he is watching her, he thought to himself, " I felt so happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was [almost] bawling, I felt so happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just how she looked so nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there". (pg.275) The relationship he has with Phoebe is the perfect relationship he has been looking for. This kind of bond is the type of bond that makes Holden seem like a real character. I found this quite interesting because, he just wants to keep young children, like his sister from becoming "phony", and to watch her act like a kid, makes him feel happy. This made the novel more enjoyable to me. This novel didn't have many weaknesses in my point of view. It had so many strengths that made this book seem as if his story was reality. This novel was written, as if it was a true story, it has no plot. The things J.D Salinger points out just happens, like life, you never know what is going to happen, you just have to accept and appreciate it as God hands it down to you. Holden accepts the life he has to live in for he is a struggling adolescent entering adulthood. While you are "listening" to the story Holden is telling you, it is easy to relate to one of his many situations. It might come across your mind that you may have said "That has happened to me before" or "I know what he's talking about". That is the best part about this novel. Many people can relate to Holden's story. Once you get through the symbolism of the novel, you will realize the things J.D Salinger tried to point out. This book is a long life lesson. People these days try to please others rather than speak their mind, which expresses the "phoniness" in people. I recommend this novel to everyone because it will give people a different, fresh, and new point of view on life. Anyone who is confused about life, or wants to examine the mind of a young adolescent should read this book. Also, if you are the type of person who likes to be kept thinking about the novel after reading it; "The Catcher in the Rye" is the book for you. You will be touched by the experiences Holden Caulfield goes through, and can feel the pain and confusion he is feeling. When reading this book, do not force yourself to read it, just enjoy and relax. You will find this book a classic!