"The Catcher in the Rye" is the path of a troubled and seemingly "careless" teenager through a couple of days in which he tried to found meaning of his entire life, not that it had been a very long one or greatly eventful, but nevertheless, he was analysing every part of it, every part of his life, his family´s life, and, basically, everyone else´s.
Spending days wondering around New York is possibly one of my biggest dreams, and just sitting in a bench pondering about the people around me and how they got there, how I got there. Holden, the main character, has ways of seeing the world that can be both quite naive and very eccentric and radical, but it does gives you plenty of starting points to develop your own opinion.
I believe that J. D. Salinger intended for this to be an easily approachable book that can both inspire the reader to think outside his comfort zone and analyse what´s really going on, and still amaze him with how a simple, often ordinary action, brought to life by words in a page can show so much more than just acting it out. What I mean with this second point is that when we do everyday things, like going to school, to work, maybe buy some breakfast or take our siblings to the park, there are many variations of the same act and plenty of other issues and situations that happened before and brought you there, or that are either happening at the same time, or even after it as a consequence of that simple act.
Spending days wondering around New York is possibly one of my biggest dreams, and just sitting in a bench pondering about the people around me and how they got there, how I got there. Holden, the main character, has ways of seeing the world that can be both quite naive and very eccentric and radical, but it does gives you plenty of starting points to develop your own opinion.
I believe that J. D. Salinger intended for this to be an easily approachable book that can both inspire the reader to think outside his comfort zone and analyse what´s really going on, and still amaze him with how a simple, often ordinary action, brought to life by words in a page can show so much more than just acting it out. What I mean with this second point is that when we do everyday things, like going to school, to work, maybe buy some breakfast or take our siblings to the park, there are many variations of the same act and plenty of other issues and situations that happened before and brought you there, or that are either happening at the same time, or even after it as a consequence of that simple act.
My point is that life is the biggest representation of the "Snowball effect", because every desition and every step we take have uncountable repercussions. All that Holden did was take a few days off his everyday life to sit down and think. Free will of action with some strings attached. That´s the best he could do. And what he found, that´s ours to choose.
And even when Holden was quite the fatalist, he had a clear way of seeing things. He knew what he thought and he didn´t waver. It may not have been the prettiest or the happiest opinion, but it was completely and totally his.
And even when Holden was quite the fatalist, he had a clear way of seeing things. He knew what he thought and he didn´t waver. It may not have been the prettiest or the happiest opinion, but it was completely and totally his.