Salinger strongly and sharply reveals all these truths and more in his book, "The Catcher In The Rye", some of which we are going to discuss and draw our own conclusion from... He betrays himself- Keast remarks in her 1987 review "Structure of the Catcher In The Rye". ... Like some great philosophers, some of us sit and ponder the great meanings of birth, life and death, yet, in the scheme of things, it just doesn't matter. ...

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It is often used to signify a journey through life, "a fall from innocence", in novels like The Catcher in the Rye and The Red Badge of Courage. However, in the novel, Heart or Darkness, Conrad uses the journey both in its literal and figurative meanings. ...

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In the 1950s, treatment of mental illness was at its highest peak, and at its most dangerous point. Because of the new discoveries as to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salin...

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