The Catcher in the Rye is a book that was published in the early 1950's approximately 1951 and its almost like a personal journal written by Holden Caulfield who is currently going through a lot in his life and is in the midst of seeking medical attention and help from a psychiatric hospital mind you he's only sixteen years of age.. The book follows his life for only a few days and it starts off with him being kicked out of school at the end of the term and it ends sometime around the end of December somewhere close to Christmas. As the book opens its a few days after Holden is told he has felled four out of five classes and he will no longer be able to attend the school he is at and we come to find out this is one of many schools he has been kicked out of due to bad grades. He then goes to talk to a old teacher of his at his apartment and after a short while he grows annoyed and leaves. After leaving his old teachers place he heads back to his dorm and later on gets into a fight with his roommate over a girl he used to date, but his roommate currently dates. The fight leads to Holden getting his nosed busted and leaving Pency.
When he leaves Pency he goes to Manhattan where he checks into a hotel and phones a girl who he hasn't met before and tries to get her to meet with him tonight so that they could possibly have sex, but that doesn't work out. He sits in his room and from where his room is he can see other people's rooms and he sees quite a few interesting scenes. Later he goes down to the hotel's restaurant and makes conversation with two girls who end up joking about his age leaving him to pay for their tabs. Later in the story, which happens to be thee best part well my favorite part, he goes to a park to look for his little sister, but runs into one of her friends who tells him that she may be at a museum, he goes to the museum but doesn't go in, instead he goes to a hotel and meets up with a girl named Sally. After going on a date with Sally he pisses her off causing her to leave, because of this he meets up with an old colleague and goes out to a bar and drinks till he can barely walk. Later that night he sneaks in his apartment building and decides to wake his sister and in doing so he's forced to tell her he's been kicked out of school. Drunk as ever he calls an old teacher of his who allows him to come to his house. Holden sleeps there for a matter of hours and wakes to find his old teacher rubbing his forehead, but this creeps Holden out so he gets up and leaves and heads to his Grand Central Station where he stays and sleeps for a few hours. When he leaves Grand Central Station he goes to his sister's school and leaves her a note stating that he will be leaving school and they should meet up soon at a museum. When he meets his sister at the museum she is carrying a suitcase full of close and she pleads with Holden to take her, but he refuses and tells her he is not gonna go either. He takes her to a park and puts her on a carousel and as it begins to pour he is filled with such happiness watching his sister on the carousel that he almost starts to cry. This is where he ends the book and we are told that he has entered a psychiatric hospital and he is seeking help, he also tells us that he will be attending school soon and he warns us that the same things that happened to him could happen to us!
Through out the story it seems as if he had an internal problem that haunted him every single second of his life. It almost seemed as if he was battling with a mental problem and he was in a no win situation, which made me feel bad for him thought out the entire story. I enjoyed the book from start to finish and it left me about to cry. I almost hate the ending (how could u almost hate something right) of the story because of how it ends i just wanted to keep reading and know that he was gonna be ok.
Please grade me on my focus and ideas as a writer!
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