Catcher Book
corebookHe is so not guilty and so alone that he tries to get a woman to talk to him and join him (unfortunately not a single golden hearts here).
Desperate alone, drifting in a worid that seems indifferent to him, he has had some horrible experience, and no one seems to have realized that he is falling apart. Nevertheless, there is a good explanation why this book has remained in the press, is available in almost every bookshop and has been used in almost every high schol: for over 60 years:
It' one of those teenage reading novels. In an era (1951) in which "teenagers" and "adolescents" were hardly ever conceptions in the spirit of America, Salinger captures the youthful language and way of thought more precisely - and more pointedly - than anyone before or after.
review J.D. Salinger's'Catcher in the Rye'.
It will be next week's next event to mark the debated side of the lit. ScottĀ Southard gives us a reviewer on one of the most popular forbidden book, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger. Few in the American literatures are as disputed as J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye".
" This work gives a person a copy of the book and thus an uncanny premonition. The Time Magazine enumerated Salinger's most renowned work as the most forbidden book in the United States. Those who criticize the book learned in schools point to the work' linguistic and dubious morality.
For Banned Books Week this year was the knack for me to forget this disputed storyline and just focus on the storyline itself. Catcher in the Rye" is essentially a dramatic and intimate tale about a young man who is only trying to find out the surrounding environment and his place in it.
His emotions for mankind, his longing for sense and end are all we can refer to. A lonesome teenage Holden Caulfield has just been evicted from an East Coast class. To Holden this day he travels around New York City and begs for someone to really hear him.
Since no one does that, he sees everyone as swindlers, as humans who are really not completely inhuman. Everybody is disappointed by Holden, by favourite instructors who never seem to say the right thing, the supervisor who gives him an advancement, and all those who just don't get him. It is not his story or his secret purpose that makes this book hazardous.
It is the fact that it captures the part of our mind that we all divide from times totimes. These times when we look around the globe and think that everything is ludicrous, phoney and hateful. Catchers in rye struggle with the obscure notion that perhaps everything is counterfeit and insignificant.
While most writers would consider such a psychologic assumption a brief history, Salinger extends it over 200 pages and delves ever more deeply into Holden's spiralling descend. There is a distinction between Holden and the human beings who find inspirations in his nihilist philosophie, that Holden finds a kind of significance in the arsenal.
At the end Holden bursts through his fear and finds found it in the virginity of his dear little brother, who is trapped on a merry-go-round during a storm. It is a pity that this aspect of salvation receives far less consideration than the annoying sound of the remaining book. At the end, Holden does not give up the whole business, and perhaps that is Salinger's real messag.
That' not so contentious, is it? ScottĀ Southard is the writer of the new novels "Permanent Spring Showers" and "A Jane Austen Daydream". He can be followed on his sdsouthard. You can read his letter on his sdsouthard.