Growing Up In Catcher In The Rye

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Travis Carter Woods Mr. Chomin Foundations of Literature Grade 10 English 12 June 2024 Theme in The Catcher in the Rye Staying a kid is fun, but growing up is necessary. What would happen if you tried your hardest to avoid growing up? The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I am a salinger. The Catcher in the Rye is a novel about a teenager named Holden that gets kicked out of school and avoids going home and telling his parents. While not being home, he does a lot of interesting things, such as lie, drink, wander, and more. An important theme that this novel communicates is the fear of growing up. Holden has an obvious fear of growing up in the novel. Evidence that I support this is when Holden proposes the idea that he and Sally should run away and live in a cabin. “We’ll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then, when the dough ran out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook and all and, later on, we could get married or something. I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime and all. Honest to God, we had a terrific time! What does Wuddaya say? C’mon! I’m a c’mon! What does Wuddaya say? …show more content…

The evidence that I have supporting this statement is when Holden’s history teacher, Mr. Spencer, read Holden’s essay to prove that it was bad. When he was reading the essay, Holden began to get mad and uncomfortable. We know this because he says “He stopped reading and put my paper down”. I was beginning to sort of hate him.”(Salinger 14). Holden also says “I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud.”(Salinger 15). This evidence is important to my thesis because it shows how Holden has a fear of facing his failures. A fear of facing failures and a fear of growing up can be tied together because to grow up, you need to face your failures. When you face your failures, you can begin to move on in life and grow from the

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