Monday, April 19, 2010
Lost like a lamp post.
Reading Catcher and the Rye has been an experience thus far and is turning out to be an adventure. We have meet our main character Holden Caufeild, and have gone through days in his life along with him. These days are not in the present infact they take place in the past as he expains at the beginning of the book, many of us have gotten annoyed with his use of the word "I" and his constant changing of moods and of location. What in the world is Holden Caufeild trying to tell us? We all have our theories and projectures about where he is and what he is doing, but are any of us right. The author J.D. Salinger is now dead so the questions fall on to the readers; so I ask YOU "What in the world is Holden Caufeild trying to tell us?"
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The question that you have provided the reader seems to be the very question that keeps a sane person reading the book. For we cannot just put down the book because we want to keep reading to see what in the world Holden is trying to say and or do. His changes of location and time could merely be due to the fact that he has gaps in his memory, or areas that he would much rather forget and not mention to anyone. However, seeing as Holden boasts that he is the best liar you've ever seen we don't know if we can fully trust whatever he wishes to write down.
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