Response To Catcher In The Rye

Gene’s jealousy of Finny corrupts their friendship and leads to Finny falling out the tree. Finny states,” It was just some kind of blind impulse you had in the tree there… It wasn’t anything you really felt against me, it wasn’t some kind of hate you’ve felt all along. It wasn’t anything personal” (Alton 183). Finny doesn’t want to believe that the accident was caused because of Gene’s jealousy.

Gene regrets this and wish he hadn’t. “‘It was just some ignorance inside me, some crazy thing inside me, something blind’” (183). Gene wishes that the “feeling” he had never made him jounce the branch causing Finny to fall off. He regrets his impulse and feels guilty that even though they were best friends he couldn’t trust Finny. At first, he was hesitant to admit it was his fault. Then, he realized what he did was wrong and feels responsible for Finny's broken leg. He learns from this experience and admits to Finny that it was his fault and accepts that what he did was

Gene feels incredibly guilty about jouncing the lim and causing Finny to fall he doesn't know what to do with himself. Once he is able to go visit Finny, he feels the need to tell Finny the truth about what happened and get it off his chest. This is a very honest move of Gene considering what he could lose by telling Finny the truth.“ ‘I jounced the limb. I caused it.’ One more sentence. ‘I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off’ “ (Knowles 70). When Gene tells Finny, Finny refuses to believe it and denies that his friend would ever do that to him. “‘Of course, you didn’t do it. You damn fool Sit down, you damn fool’ ‘Of course I did!’ ‘I’m going to hit you if you don’t sit down’” (Knowles 70) Finny straight up denies that Gene did that to him and Finny tries to get Gene to stop talking while he is at it. Now would be the perfect opportunity for Gene to take back what he said and move on with Finny. Even then, Gene is persistent in telling Finny the truth and keeps going. Gene is Finny's best friend and if he accepts the fact that Gene actually did this to him, he would be losing really his only

Gene imitates Finny by going to the tree with him to jump off. He shakes the limb, making Finny fall off and breaking his leg. Now Gene is feeling bad about the incident. In the novel it states, “I spent as much time as I could alone in our room, trying to empty my mind of every thought, to forget where I was, even who I was” (Knowles 33). Gene didn’t want to be around anybody because he had a lot on his mind.

Gene has always shown a humorous personality throughout the story. He is always cracking jokes like the instants with Quackenbush, “‘The crew waits for no man,’ he didn’t seem to think this was a funny thing to say. I did, and had to chuckle,” (77). It is very likely that jouncing the trees limb was all a silly joke just like several of his comments with his friends. He is always trying to impress his role model Finny and this was probably an effort to make Finny laugh but sadly went horribly wrong. As a prank, Gene intentionally jounced the limb so Finny may lose his balance but did not expect the outcome to be what the reality was. As we know, Gene loves Finny and would never want to hurt him, but he also looks up to him which would explain why he wants to make Finny happy and laugh by wobbling the tree limb as a prank. Gene knows that he bounced on the limb intentionally as a joke even admitting that he was responsible for Phineas’s injury. Genes visits Finny after the situation occurred to check in on his best friend but a confession is also told. Gene tries to convince Finny that he did jounce the limb saying, “‘I jounced the limb. I caused it,’” (34). Guiltily, Gene takes responsibility for Finny’s impairment but the fact that he tells Finny shows that he really did not mean for it to happen. If this was done on purpose, their friendship would have been ruined but since Gene values the

Holden Caulfield has recently been showing various signs of depression. A girl named Phoebe Caulfield, Holden’s sister, showed concern about her brother. One night she said to him, “You don’t like anything that’s happening” (Salinger, 169), and when he responded, “Yes I do. Sure I do” (Salinger, 169), she challenged him. She told him, “Name one thing” (Salinger, 169), and was concerned when he answered, after a long pause, “I like Allie” (Salinger, 169). Allie is Holden’s late brother, and Phoebe was worried to hear that the only thing her brother likes about this world is something that isn’t even there anymore.

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that occurs around the 1950s. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old white male, who journeys to various places as he mourns over the death of his little brother, Allie. As a white male in a capitalist society, he has tremendous amounts of privileges that allow him to get. However, as the novel progresses, Holden describes his society as a place where honored human qualities are suppressed and capitalist ideals are embraced. Throughout the novel, we see that capitalism, “the social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned”, destroys the overall society for Holden and his generation (Rand).

Set, Hike the play began and Will went out for the pass did an eight yard hitch, WOOF the ball left the QB’s hand and landed right in the hands of Will in the end zone. SCORE the touchdown is good. After the play and being congratulated he felt something vibrating in his pocket. Will is nice rebellious but yet respectful man he is tan and well built and loves to work out with his friends. So acting normal and all he grabbed his phone and realized it was his dad who rarely calls him the only reason would be if something went wrong and someone died or he just wanted to talk to him. When he answered the phone he said “Hey Dad...” When he didn’t hear an answer he almost hung up but all of a sudden heard the voice of his grandpa Steve talking

American literature is full of classic novels containing heroic protagonists; Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye is not one of these classic heroes. The article Some Crazy Cliff by Arthur Heiserman and James E. Miller Jr. provides one interpretation of the novel suggesting that the protagonist is unique compared to others commonly found in American literature; most heroes are seeking acceptance while Holden is seeking something within the society he is trying to leave. The novel follows Holden Caulfield, a young boy who recently flunked out of high school, over the course of three days. During this time, the protagonist returns to New York via train, but does not want to be with his parents until they have already learned of his

“I swear to God I’m crazy. I admit it.” It is very easy to automatically assume that Holden Caulfield is crazy. It’s even a logical assumption since Caulfield himself admits to being crazy twice throughout the course of the book. However, calling Holden Caulfield crazy is almost the same as calling the majority of the human race crazy also. Holden Caulfield is just an adolescent trying to prevent himself from turning into what he despises the most, a phony. Most of Caulfield’s actions and thoughts are the same as of many people, the difference being that Holden acts upon those thoughts and has them down in writing.

Young adult books are hot in the writing world and are the new trend of what people want to read. Teens and adults alike are drawn to characters like Katniss Everdeen, Hazel Grace, and Jacob Portman; they seem real, they become dear to us. Before this trend started, however, many people did not write for a young adult reader. J.D. Salinger, on the other hand, wrote a very popular book for young adults called The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote this book in 1951 way before the new young adult book writing craze. Many people are now saying that the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, is outdated. Can young adults not relate with Holden anymore because this book was written

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J.D. Salinger. It is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a cynical teenager who recently got expelled from his fourth school. Though Holden is the narrator and main character of the story, the focus of Salinger’s tale is not on Caulfield, but of the world in which we live. The Catcher in the Rye is an insatiable account of the realities we face daily seen through the eyes of a bright young man whose visions of the world are painfully truthful, if not a bit jaded. Salinger’s book is a must-read because its relatable symbolism draws on the reader’s emotions and can easily keep the attention of anyone.

Many will say that this book is a type of book that can cause a lot of argument and debate, but that’s probably why it’s so interesting to read. “The Catcher in the Rye” obviously wouldn't be everyone's favorite book, but I find it exciting and interesting to read, with a lot of harsh reality along with some humor, also with some moments of depression.

This piece of creative writing is based on one of the books written by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, which was written in the year 1951.In the whole book Holden describes Phoebe as a very concerned sister and a girl who behaves like an adult. So I thought there could be possibility that she will write a letter to her brother as he is starting a new school. She is curious about what is happening to him as he was sick and since he is an alien environment. The main themes are teenage problems and confusions, rebellion against the adults and the how weird and complicated is the reality, the adult world is. I have written this piece based on the interactions of Phoebe and Holden which has been described in the chapters 21-23 and 26 .

The Catcher in the Rye is an alright book. I’m not going to say that it was a bad book, It wasn’t. All it really was, was a story of the life of a boy named Holden Caulfield. This book starts with Holden getting kicked out of his college, but that’s just one of the many colleges he has been kicked out of. Then it goes on of Holden meeting with his colleagues, or with strangers, and describing how he feels towards these people. The people he meets throughout the book usually end up depressing him and causing him to become more lonely. This story wasn’t all interesting, but it still kept me at a steady wonderment at what would happen next. Some of the things this book wasn’t bad at was describing characters,