Analyse how the writer develops a significant idea or theme in The Catcher in the Rye. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger is about a 17 year old boy called Holden Caulfield, and his development into adulthood. ... An important theme in The Catcher in the Rye, would be Holdens childhood and Salinger had shown that Holden had seen his childhood as a period of innocence and purity, and that the road to adult hood is terrifying to him. ... Salinger uses various characters that helps Holden to connect with, for example his big brother Allie (deceased), his 10 year old sister, Phoebe a...

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German writer Franz Kafka's and American J.D. Salinger's respective masterpieces, The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951), examine the universal themes of personal relationships within the context of painful change. Each did that in his own way: Kafka portrayed familial support and sympathy as necessary to the alleviation of pain, while Salinger suggested that to truly grow up is to come to terms with one's relationships and ultimately one's role in society. ... In contrast, meanwhile, Salinger paints Holden as unable to come to terms with his place in so...

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