The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is the best book I've ever read. It's about a 16-18 year old teen named Holden who flunks out of about 3 different schools and is forced to go home after his most recent flunk. But, the thing is, he can't take it anymore and wants to live a real life and show everyone that he can do something with himself. So he moves to New York. Though I haven't gotten that far into the book yet. My stepdad told me him going to New York. In this I'm going to talk about Holden's very interesting use of vocabulary, how adults have been underestimating his potential, and how this book is 2nd on the top banned books list.

Holden in the book has a very complicated but at the same time simple vocabulary. Which I really love. The word that he uses to describe people who are fakes and don't really try to be helpful, nice, or just don't believe in anyone are "phonies." He uses this many times throughout the book for rich people or people who just are too caught up in themselves that they can't focus on others. Which, already has really made me fell as if I can really relate to him. I also completely agree with him about the conceited people who are caught up in themselves. I really think they are phonies because a rich person has so much money that they don't need to worry about anything but themselves.

In the book there is a representation about how adults completely underestimate kids and teens now a days. And I have to admit, we have given them the right to think that way about us because of all the things we do wrong. But, I believe they shouldn't down on us because we are going to become what they were. So why look down on something that is going to be like you. I think you should embrace them and maybe just maybe help them out a bit in life.

So my final topic is about how this book is on the 2nd most banned book on the banned books list. Let me start off saying it's an amazing book and it teaches kids to treasure what you have and what you do. And although Holden runs away from home it still helps you get the idea of not doing that. Because when you read something about someone running away from home. Your usually not going to do that because you see the characters struggle. This book also has it's amount of curses in it, but I don't consider them curses, I consider them to be "real words" because the world isn't all sunshine and celery stocks, it's tough. And stuff happens and you have to deal with it. I can also see why this book is banned because of all the curses and him running away from home.

As you can see by now this is my favorite book I've ever read and I am very pleased that my stepdad had it otherwise I would just have to keep finding books that are uninteresting to me. So I hope you can read this book because of what it teaches you about life.