Similarities Between Catcher In The Rye And Pleasantville

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Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the movie Pleasantville, and even in real life, a theme constant is the theme of protection of innocence. The Catcher in the Rye portrays the idea of protection of innocence through the main character of Holden Caulfield. Holden is a highly troubled boy, and is constantly getting kicked out of schools. However, there is one idea he is fiercely serious about. He explains this idea to his sister when she presses him about his life choices. “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids...and nobody’s around-nobody big, I mean, except me....What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff...I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all”(Salinger 173). This quote spoken by Holden is him …show more content…

In the movie Pleasantville, a story about a perfect, 1950s town becoming corrupt by two teenagers who show the residents the love living inside them, protection of innocence is very notable throughout the film. Before everyone starts to live a normal life, they, as well as their surroundings, are all black and white. Protection of innocence is shown here by the governing people of the town. They are trying to keep people from being creative, from having imagination, and even from finding deep emotions hidden within themselves, which is shown by the appearance of color in the people themselves and the world around them. Pleasantville shows the audience that innocence does not have to be typical innocence as society thinks about it today, such as virginity, but that it can be the loss of innocence through creativity and even through the simple and primitive feeling of love. Examples such as these distinctively show protection of innocence in many ways. A final example of the protection of innocence can be taken from real life experiences. I experience this almost

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