Catcher Rye What Is The Hardest Part Of Growing Up

Maddie Malakoff Ms.Reid P.5 September 20, 2017 Catcher in the Rye: What is the hardest part of growing up? The hardest part of growing up is having to make tough decisions in the moment. Not knowing if they are right or wrong, but having to use your best judgment. Those wrong choices give you chance to learn and grow from them, while the right choices set you on a more successful path in the long run. For someone it’s easier to access situations for others they are lost. In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger the main Character Holden Caulfield, a boy from a rich family who is constantly flunking schools and making bad life decisions, like getting into fights and sheltering his feelings from his only friends goes on a†¦show more content†¦Having no role adult role models in his life besides his teachers, he looks to his peers and adopts some of their habits and strategies they use to in tough situations. Since starting off the book we learn that Holden is flunking out of the school he is attending current ly (Pencey Prep) and he is planning to leave before the date he is supposed to and take a trip to New York. Right away this is a coming way out of left field because usually, teenagers don’t go into the city for a few days unaccompanied. Before he left the school he got in a huge fight with his roommate, he kept egging him on calling him names and such and wouldn’t stop even when his roommate asked nicely, he got punched but Stradlater (roommate) instantly felt remorse and said â€Å" Why the hell don’tcha shut up when I tellya to?†(pg58) He didn’t want to hurt Holden but felt like he had no other choice than to hit him, and when he felt bad about it, Holden had a blank expression on his face not even considering that he was also at fault. This happens another time in the book when the prostitute and her pimp come back to Holden s hotel room and he opens his mouth up and gets beaten up once again. Holden said â€Å" You’re a dirty moron, Yo u’re a stupid chiseling moron†¦ and you’ll be---† (p135). He was cut off, punched, and knocked out, his wallet and the money he â€Å"owed† they took, and instead of admitting to himself that he made a mistake and gotten himself in a bad situation heShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Salinger s The Catcher s The Rye 2525 Words   |  11 PagesThe Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D Salinger is a book with a truly controversial history by being banned from bookstores, libraries, etc. during the time of its release and even now is very scarcely being brought back into the high school setting to be taught as part of the high school curriculum. While being confronted about reasons for being banned, protesters of this book give very vague arguments on why it should be banned such as â€Å"its a very filthy book,† or â€Å"its explicitly pornographic.†Read MoreAnalysis Of The Book The Catcher Of The Rye By Quot. Salinger1240 Words   |  5 Pages The Catcher in the Rye, a novel written by J.D. Salinger, follows the short journey in which a teenage boy is coming to terms with his encroaching adulthood. Holden, the main character, has been kicked out of a private school for the third time. In New York, he is on the verge of a mental breakdown. Holden is reluctant to act on the obvious solution of returning home and feels discombobulation towards the consequences he might have to face. He reflects on the death of his brother and strugglesRead MoreTeenage Years Are Best Years in Ones Life3615 Words   |  15 Pagesteenage years are still nevertheless the best years of ones life. With extra guidance and stricter censorship of metal bands, I believe that the true beauty of teenage years will soon dawn upon the youths in todays society. The Teenage Years Growing up is a hard process, especially for those who are experiencing their adolescent years.    Everyone who has gone through this process agrees that these years have been some of the most awkward and strangest years of their lives; the ‘teen years’ is