Analysis Of Salinger s The Catcher Rye - 3756 Words

Summer Reading-TASIS 2014 Rising 9th Grade Mainstream English The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Fahrenheit 541 by Ray Bradbury Please write a typed or handwritten response (200 words each in the language relevant to your course) to each of the following prompts on each of the works assigned for the course(s) you will be taking in 2014-2015: The Catcher in the Rye Initial Understanding: What are your thoughts and questions about the story? You might reflect upon characters, their problems, the title, or other ideas in the story. J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a very interesting sort of novel, as the entire book is the main character, Holden Caulfield, talking about part of his life to a psychoanalyst. This†¦show more content†¦That kind of stuffs happened to me about twenty times since I was a kid. I can’t stand it.,†(208) However he still â€Å"...sort of missed everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddamn maurice.†(230) Holden is stuck between two of his needs: and isolation and companionship. Whenever he tries to address one he must inherently ignore the other. Interpretation: Choose two passages from the book that you think indicate an important change in the main character from the beginning of the story to the end. What do you think causes this change and how do the passages show this change? It’s very difficult to find passages containing changes in the main character in The Catcher in the Rye, because it is about Holden trying to resist change, trying to stay in the world of innocent world of childhood and out of the â€Å"phony† adult world. I researched the Robert Burns poem in the title that Holden misinterprets (Coming Thro’ the Rye), and it is actually a poem about casual sex†¦ (Isn’t that a nice song for children to be singing?) Holden sees himself as the â€Å"catcher in the rye,† saving all the children from falling off a cliff: â€Å"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of