I enjoyed all four of the books that I read, but out of
all of them, The Catcher in the Rye was my favorite of all. I’d always heard of
this book, but I never actually knew the plot or character list. I’d seen it on
the internet, on posters, and on summer reading lists, but I already assumed it
was a more complicated read that would require a lot of thinking and line
connecting. Surprisingly, it was an extremely EASY read and it flowed
perfectly. It was upbeat and amusing, but also very touching and full of
symbolism. It was completely unexpected from a book I’d known about for years
that I’d never once touched. It wasn’t really the plot that made me like it,
but the writing style. From the first sentence, “If you really want to hear about
it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what
my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before
they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like
going into it, if you want to know the truth,”( Salinger pg. 1) to the last
two, “Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody”
(Salinger pg. 214) I was completely intrigued. I liked how the story is written
from the point of view of a seventeen year old rebel, and is full of humorous
thoughts, sly comments, and repetitive bad language. Because he’s just a
teenager, the story is easier to read. Holden describes everything from his
personal point of view, and he prefers to keep it simple and too the point, which
I really liked. Holden has his own personality, and is very opinionated on
pretty much everything that he sees or anything that happens to him, which makes
it funny. I really enjoyed it because Holden is such a big personality, and he
makes a really humorous narrator. The Catcher in the Rye was the only book that
was like that.
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in
the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.
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