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Title: Catcher in
the rye, the
Author: J.D. Salinger
Genre: fiction
Rating: 
It's a story about a 16 years old guy, just kicked out of school (again), with
no idea what to do next. Holden Caulfield gives us his interpretation of how
people should behave and how the world should be like. Eventually he knows his
look on things isn't necessarily the way others see things. Things aren't as
black and white as he thinks they are.
In the three days he has before his parents find out he has been kicked out of
Pencey, he has some decisions to make about his life. To do that his first
decision is not to wait until Wednesday to go home right out of school, but go
into New York for those days. In those three days he meets people, rings people,
goes to visit people, all to make him realize in what kind of world he lives
with no chance of changing it. He can't change the "phony" people, he
can't change the "phony" world they live in, it's his world too and he
has to make the best of it. To do that he has to make some "grownup"
choices, i.e. stay or flee. Staying means confronting himself with the mess he
made of life and, with help from others, doing something about it. Fleeing means
going to a place where nobody knows him or his mess, keeping himself from the
confrontation with himself and life. Ironically enough, his kid sister helps him
making his choice.
If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't think this book was first published
in 1945. The story told is about choices everyone has to make sometime in their
lives, no matter what decade or even century you live in.
If
you liked this book, you should try:
Ordinary
people
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