Enigma: a person, thing or even that is strange, mysterious, and difficult to.
A book that has thwarted off most attacks, meaning to ban its content, is the.
focus of my discussion. The book in which I am referring to is Catcher in the Rye. The.
author of this controversial literature is J.D. Salenger. The main character in this novel is.
Holden Calfield. Holden is overwhelmed by his tremendous emotional experiences. These.
experiences has warped Holden's social life into its dysfunctional state, as seen in the.
book. In which illusions of innocence within Holden's mind, has clouded his judgment and.
his vision of reality.
Experiences in Holden's childhood has made his mane focus in life, is not to.
become a phony. The main purpose of Holden not trying to become a phony was an.
attempt at preserving his innocence. Holdens fixation with innocence occurred when his.
brother died. Since Holden's brother was younger and in a state of innocence, Holden tries.
to bring back his brother by trying to preserve the innocence of young generations. Holden.
has tried so hard not to be a phony he in reality the harder he tried not to be a phony the.
more he became one. In a major turning point of the book you find out that Holden wants.
to be the catcher in the rye. Holden miss interprets the poem ant thinks it is about.
preserving innocence when in reality its about a girl loosing her innocence. Holden's fight.
for innocence has blinded him to the real world.
As soon as Holdens brother died, Holdends view of reality and judgment was.
impaired. Threw out the novel Holden was making foolish a ignorant mistakes; one such.
mistake was giving up on school. Holden wasn't all to blame for his behavior, his parents.
shipping him off to different private school only widened the gap between Holden and the .
real world. A constant reminder of Holden's cloudy reality is his constant fixation of.
hatred for all "phonies". This obvious lapses in coherent thinking is just a twisted way of.
