Catcher In The Ry Essay, Research Paper

Catcher in the rye:

Catcher in the rye has been the subject of much debute as to

whether it is a sutable book for adolescants to study…..

In my opinion it is very sutable for teens to read and learn and there

is many reasons for that!!!

I will start with the fact that Holden is not different than the average kid,

well maybe he is more depressend and down on himself then average teens

but the thing is he has good reasons to be! He lost his brother Allie whom

he truly loves and cares for ……. any teen who loses someone close to them

are ofcourse more depressed than others. I am not saying that the way

Holden handeled Allies death was the right way im just saying that some

teens can relate to what he is going thru !

Some might say that this book could be a bad influence on the teens

that are reading it because Holden doesnt even try to succeed in his school

work , keeps on droping out of all kinds of different schools and trying to

act older than his age by running away from school , drinking alcool ,

smoking, and even paying for a prostitute …… yeah all this seems

a very bad influence but later on in the book the teens who read it

understand the consiquences of such irresponsibility !!

Most of the event that happen in Holdens life people can relate too,

for instance the problems with the parents , the fascination with “pure”

things more likely to be young children, the journey of maturation,

trying to act like an adult……

Im a sure that atleast one of these things a person can relate too !

I think the fact that at the end of the book Holden ends up in

a hospital just shows how much problems he had to deal with

and that most of the things that happened to him depressed him more!