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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
UrliMancati: It has been said that Barney is Holden at the end of his life. While the twos do not have so much in common, the reader will definitively love both characters.
El protagonista Holden Caulfield és un adolescent que acaba de ser expulsat de l'institut de Pencey en finalitzaar el primer trimestre. Fill d'una família benestant de Nova York, decideix marxar de l'escola durant el cap de setmana a tres dies de les vacances de Nadal. Comença a vagar per diferents bars, nigth clubs i hotels de mala mort per esperar el dimecres que és el dia que ha d'arribar a casa.En aquest temps d'arrossegar-se d'aquí cap allà ens transmet tota la seva angoixa i depressió, tot el seu rebuig del fastigós món que l'envolta, la hipocresia de tots els seus coneguts i amics. Les noies que li agraden més o menys i les seves frustrades relacions amb el sexe femení. Crític amb tot, només se'n salva el seu germà Allie,que va morir de leucèmia, i la seva germana petita, Phoebe, a la que adora. L'autor transmet al lector l'estat depressiu del personatge, amb mentides contínues, em feia pensar en un Pinocchio modern, el llenguatge utilitzat fent servir paraulotes va escandalitzar en el moment de la seva publicació, així com el tractament de l'adolescent desencantat i crític amb la societat americana del su temps. ( )
“Holden Caulfield is supposed to be this paradigmatic teenager we can all relate to, but we don’t really speak this way or talk about these things,” Ms. Levenson said, summarizing a typical response. At the public charter school where she used to teach, she said, “I had a lot of students comment, ‘I can’t really feel bad for this rich kid with a weekend free in New York City.’ ”
"Some of my best friends are children," says Jerome David Salinger, 32. "In fact, all of my best friends are children." And Salinger has written short stories about his best friends with love, brilliance and 20-20 vision. In his tough-tender first novel, The Catcher in the Rye (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice), he charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel, and deals out some of the most acidly humorous deadpan satire since the late great Ring Lardner.
This Salinger, he's a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book though, it's too long. Gets kind of monotonous. And he should've cut out a lot about these jerks and all at that crumby school. They depress me.
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To my mother
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want the truth."
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I'm quite illiterate but I read a lot.
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
I do not even like ... cars... I’d rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”
I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move.... Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
"Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
Certain things they should stay as they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What it'll fit and, maybe, what it won't. After a while, you'll have an idea what kind of thoughts your particular size mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that don't suit you, that aren't becoming to you. You'll begin to understand your measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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L'autor transmet al lector l'estat depressiu del personatge, amb mentides contínues, em feia pensar en un Pinocchio modern, el llenguatge utilitzat fent servir paraulotes va escandalitzar en el moment de la seva publicació, així com el tractament de l'adolescent desencantat i crític amb la societat americana del su temps. (