The Catcher In The Rye

Index:

Front page……………………………………………..…………….…1
Index.....……………………………………………………………..…..2
Introduction…………………………………………………….….......3
Chapter 1…………………………………………………….…………..4
Chapter 2………………………………………………….……………..5
Chapter 3………………………………………………………………...6
Chapter 4 and 5………………………………………………………...7
Chapter 6, 7 and 8…………………………….………………………..8Chapter 9 and 10……………………………………………………..…9
Chapter 11, 12, 13 and 14…………………………………………….10
Chapter 15, 16, 17 and 18…………………………………………….11
Chapter 19, 20, 21 and 22……………………………………….……12
Chapter 23, 24, 25 and 26…………………………………………….13
Conclusion……………………………………………………………...14

Introduction:

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is about Holden Caufield who recounts the days following his expulsion fromPencey Prep, a private school in Argestown, Pennsylvania. After a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, Holden leaves school two days early to explore New York before returning home, interacting with teachers, new and old friends, prostitutes, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his sister along the way. Salinger's classic, The Catcher in the Rye illustrates a teenager's dramatic struggle against deathand growing up.
Also this novel presented themes such as innocence, death, authentic versus artificial and sexual confusion.
Holden Caulfield is one of the best-loved fictional characters in American literature. Like other popular characters, Holden tells his own story in his own words as if speaking aloud, and it is Holden's "voice" on the page, rather than the plot of The Catcher in the Rye,for which the novel is most remembered.
Although The Catcher in the Rye seems like the unique thoughts and feelings of an actual teenager, it is nothing of the kind. Actually, J.D. Salinger was in his twenties and thirties when he wrote the novel, which began as a short story and grew, over many years, into a book length work of fiction.

Finally, the novel's main thematic conflict is the fightbetween the innocence and authenticity of childhood, as represented by Holden's sister Phoebe, against the phoniness, as Holden sees it, in most of adults (Mr. Antolini, for example). Neither a child nor a grown up, Holden resists maturation, a process he sees as characterized by loss rather than growth.

September 14th: Chapter 1
Summary:
In this chapter Holden Caufield, the protagonist andnarrator, begin telling story from a mental hospital or something like that in California. He describes the events occurring around Christmastime of the previous year. In first place Holden mentions his older brother, D.B., a writer who now works in nearby Hollywood and visits Holden almost every weekend.
Holden's story begins around on a Saturday in December, the day of the season-endingfootball match between his old school, Pencey Prep (in Agerstown, Pennsylvania) and Saxon Hall. He has been expelled and on his way to say good-bye to Mr. Spencer, his history teacher. At the end of the chapter, Holden arrives at Mr. Spencer's house and is let in by his teacher's wife.
Analysis:
Holden is not a traditional narrator. After saying that he will just tell us about the "madman stuff" thathappened on the last December, Holden describe his brother, D.B., who was a "terrific" short story writer until he sold out and went to Hollywood. The theme of Holden's favorite D.B. story, "The Secret Goldfish" (about a child who buys a goldfish and doesn´t allow anyone to look at it, because he has paid for it with his own money) it tells about Holden's consistent passion for the innocence andauthenticity of childhood.
The setting is Pencey Prep, a "terrible" school whose atmosphere seems as cold as the December air. Holden has no love for prep school. Holden has been expelled from Pencey Prep because he has flunked four subjects (passing only English), including Mr. Spencer's history class. On his way to Spencer's home to say good-bye, Holden feels terribly cold. There is no sun, and...