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. ...

• Word Count: 760
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In "The Catcher in the Rye-, he has no real interest in school or any other institution. ... Furthermore, despite Holden's reluctance to grow up, "The Catcher in the Rye- is still described as a bildungsroman. ... When Holden tries to rub out the graffiti at Phoebe's school in order to protect the minds of the innocent children he is becoming the catcher in the rye. This is reinforced at the end of the book when he purports to miss everyone mentioned, one feels that he would like to have protected them and caught them in the rye like the children, he doesn't want them to have gr...

• Word Count: 1213
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the protagonists of each struggle with the same themes. ...

• Word Count: 1076
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate