Connections to Salinger

Reading this article kind of helped me to understand why Salinger wrote the book. The article talked about how when Salinger grew up teenagers began to rebel. It talked about his life and how he was either kicked out or ran away from many private schools. That is very similiar to his character Holden in the novel. I think that in s sense Salinger wrote the novel about himself as a teenager. It was about his journey through all the schools he's went to and him trying to find his place in the world. The connections it made between his personal life growing up and the novel that he wrote helps me to understand it better.

I think that in a way all teenagers can connect with Holden because he is kind of trying to figure out who he his and where he belongs in the world and that's what most teenagers are trying to do as well. Holden seems to think that everyone is phony or fake and i know that i personally think that a lot of people are fake and act differently around different people just to impress them. But in the end Holden kind of ends up being one of the most phony poeple in the book. I think that everyone has their opinions on who is fake but at the end of the day we are all a little phony ourselves.

I think that this helps to understand Holden better because it makes me realize that he is just another person as well, though he may be a little mental. We all have our faults and at times everyone is at least a little bit phony.

J.D. Salinger

I think that if any new works by J.D. Salinger are published it will have a huge impact on American Literacy. Salinger's most famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has had a huge impact on American Litearacy and has created tons of controversy in schools and libraries across the Nation. Salinger's family has said that there are at least 15 unpublished novels by Salinger. I think that eventually his family will choose to publish some of these novels. With such controversy from his other novel, The Catcher and the Rye, i think that any new novels will also create controversy.