Thursday, June 5, 2014

Lit. Analysis : Catcher In The Rye

1. In the Catcher In The Rye the author  used foreshadowing, for example when the novel opens, Holden tells how he has been hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. Point of view also is used, Holden narrates the novel in first person describing the events he has experienced in the past.

2.The author does use lengthy descriptions. The novel is set over a three day period in the late 1940s. He talks about his weekend in Pennsylvania, and then moves onto his life is New York .

3.Holden's tone changes throughout the whole book . He finds nearly everything about life depressing. Holden's tone throughout the novel is sad, he talks about his brother Allies baseball mit who died from cancer and about how hates leaving places because it makes him sad.

4.Holden hates other characters. He thinks the world is full of phonies and  in some ways is a hyprocrite because he himself is a phony.

5.This book was a big success that the author participated in many interviews and hit was a throughout the world. Here's an interview that he had : NEW YORK –  J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Agency. He had lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in the small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.

The Cather in the rye will leave me with the memory of what you should do before you go to far. To realize what's in front of you and to never forget the true value of life it's self . Please take that back with your self also never forget to put your self and education first to better your self.

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