February 1, 2010
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D.Salinger
James DeanHe was gone 27 Jａn for 91 years old …( He was born 1919 at Manhattan
in New York..It was just world war-1 finished…).. His novel “The Catcher
in the Rye ” was published 1951 and selled 65million books untill now…..
I haven’t ever read his novel yet..but I’m interested about why “The catcher
in the Rye ” was called bible of young boy and why some of christian hate
this novel..so I tryed search about review of this novel and share one of
them here ..He wrote this novel at 31years old age..He came back from soldier at
Normandy operation and enter to mental hospital for care to broken heart
by war…He made time slip his mind at 16 years old boy…detail is..hero Holden
left his boarding school for trouble reasons..and descrived his mind during tow
days happnning threw on the way road of come back home .. finaly, he speak
this with his sister when arrived at home…” I’d like to be Catcher in the rye…there are many kids playing
in the wild rye..nobdy of adult there except of me…
I save to child who will fall over a precipice ..because they
don’t notice precipice with playing in the Rye..”It was ” Teen Ager appear ” at times of ’50 …
Boy Holden encountered many bogus people include of teacher..his words
that satirize to these people make catch reader’s heart who feel alienated
of teen ager…and time is welcome to James Dean by ” Rebel without a
Cause ” 1955..( producer Elia kazan offer to make movie of the Catcher in
the Rye after produced ” A Street Car Named Desire 1951 ” and “East of
Eden 1954″.. but Salinger seems declined..)Appearance of James Dean made people for discovered ” Teen Ager ” !
People recognized as baby pile up age one after another and become adult
until then..however, people become aware very mysterious time of ” Teen
Ager “ on the way of adult from child by appearance of James Dean..It’s not sin as person who feel sensitive from the circumference…
then he is spoiled from society but It must be blamed society more
than sensitive people…however, society is constructed by un-sensitive
people in many case ….Anyway, I understand this novel’s fascinate …It don’t give answer and
joint thought or trouble and heal to pain or weight…and give mind of
“ Only this person understand to me in the world ” to boy who feel
loneliness as nobody don’t understand to my heart….
Comments (3)
I haven’t read the book either but I have seen James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause.’ Being a ‘teenager’ can be good or bad, depending on the family situation.
I bought this book because I had heard that a lot of criminally minded people were found to have a copy. I wanted to know what was in it that attracted that kind of audience. I read the first several chapters but lost interest because I couldn’t quite grab the feeling of the story.
There is another book with which many Christians disagree. I am a Christian and was able to look beyond the words into the story. It is to this day one of my favorite books…”Stranger in a Strange Land’ by Robert Heinlein. Heinlein is known best for his works in science fiction and indeed the shallow story of this book is science fiction. It is about a young earthling stranded on Mars as an infant. Raised in Martian ways by Martians. Then he was “rescued” and brought back to earth. Here he saw mankind from a different perspective…an outsider looking in…and a lot of the things he saw are almost as ridiculous as he saw them when you look at it totally objectively.
I think you are open enough to look at a diamond from all sides and might enjoy the book as I did. I recommended it to my little friend from Hong Kong and she saw what i saw. ~ Mom
I was sad to hear of Salinger’s passing, though he lived a ripe old age. He was a wonderful writer. “Catcher In The Rye” was one of my favourite books that we read back in school. I still have yet to see any of the James Dean movies. It’s too bad Salinger refused a movie to be made about his book.