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**__About the author__** J.D. Salinger, which stands for Jerome David Salinger, was born Januray 1st, 1919. He grew up in Manhattan New York in a fashionable area. His father was jewish and his mother was Scotch-Irish. Salinger attened public schools then eventually went on to prep schools.He attened Valley Forge Military Academy. His senior year he started to write fiction. Then he began to contribute work to the schools literary magazine, was literary editor of the yearbook, participated in the chorus, and played a role in drama club productions.He graduated in June 1936. 1937, Once Salinger turned 18, he spent five months in Europe. 1937-1938 he studied at Ursinus College and New York University. At Ursinus he made a hurmorous column in the schools weekly newspaper. He left only after one semester. 1939 he attended Columbia University and participated in a short story writing class taught by Whit Burnett. Burnett who was a writer and editor, published Salingers first story "The Young Folks" in 1940. In 1942 he entered the military forces and served until the end of World War 2. While at war Salinger still wrote and published. He carried a portable typewriter with him.Returning to the U.S. his career of being a writer took off. The //New Yorker// published his story " Slight Rebellion Off Madison," later on it was rewritten and became //The Cather In The Rye.// J.D. Salinger is still living today and is 89 years old.

"I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”-J.D. Salinger

This book is an easily relatable story that anyone who reads it will know what the main character is going through. //The Catcher in the Rye// has a variety of different meanings and themes. It deals with innocences, family,loss maturity,adolescence,betrayal,failure, and experiences that most teenagers go through. It shows life lessons and struggles and how to over come these obstacles when there's no one there to guide you. Holden Caufield the 16 year old protagonist and main character of //The Catcher in the Rye// narrates the story and explains all the events throughout three influential days of his life. Holden Caulfield who was expelled from boarding school two weeks before christmas, goes out into the world in search of non-phoniness, truth, and innocence. Holden is a very hypocritical character in the book. Believing that all his thoughts and beliefs are true and every one that was different in his opinion was an idiot. Feeling that he knows a lot about human nature, Holden discusses his thoughts on many people’s actions and personalities. Most of which were described negatively and as phonies. He feels that no one understands him and that everyone is a "phony". He thinks that no one is honest, and everybody wants to be something else. He feels that the only person who understands him is Phoebe, his younger sister. He does not have relationships with girls, or anyone because he feels that he is the only genuine person in the world. " The first thing i did when i got off at Penn Station, i went inot this phone booth. I felt like giving somone a buzz. but as soon as i got inside i couldn't think of anyone to call up"(Salinger,77). Holden does not have any friends and cannot keep relationships. This is because he finds and exaggerates any negative aspect of all the people he knows or meets. In this book Holden uses bad language to really get his point of view across, and sometimes it ends up criticising people. An example of this is when Holden is saying, "The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs - if yours are really //good// ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose suitcases are better, but they do. They really do. It's one of the reasons why I roomed with a stupid bastard like Stradlater. At least his suitcases were as good as mine"(Salinger, 57). //The Catcher in The Rye// would be the genre Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) or Realalistic Fiction(young adult). and is told in first person throught he eyes of the narrator, Holden Caufeild. Catcher in the Rye is truely an outstanding book, and i would recommend this book to anyone who likes reading about life lessons, and learning to grow up. J.D Salinger makes this book outstanding by putting humorous thoughts that Holden would be thinking and visuals so the reader knows what Holden is going through. His character is so easy to relate to, Holden is sarcastic in a way that makes you think through out the book, and the language that he uses can relate to teenagers. It reveals struggles, loss, and trying to over come these situations.
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__Work Cited Salinger, J. D.__ "The Catcher In The Rye". Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951 "Key Facts The Catcher in the Rye" 11/6/08 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/facts.html

__Homework-online.__"The Catcher in the Rye."1998-2008.11/6/08 http://www.homework-online.com/tcitr/index.asp