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How To Read The Catcher In The Rye

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To be honest I don’t really know where this essay is going to start or end up but here are some thoughts that I endured while reading this book. I read this book once in 7th grade which was apparently a much too early time to read it. I probably thought it looked impressive to adults or something by having that book with me. But I really didn’t understand what it was about until finishing it again in your class. This time I enjoyed it a lot more and felt embarrassingly more proud of myself for having read The Catcher In The Rye. After I finished reading the assigned chapters I would set the book down and try to think, in an intellectual way, about what I read really meant and usually found myself falling short of what I intended. The next day in class you would say two or three sentences, then all of a sudden it seemed as if impossible to miss the fact that the punctuation between two words actually means Holden is a kid in a world of phonies who just wants to save kids from adulthood. I am usually a happy person, at least around people and in …show more content…

Thinking about adulthood doesn’t really scare me, in fact I’m rather excited to move on to college and be on my own. But that’s the big picture. The thing with adulthood is that people only think of the big picture. The little things like alcoholism, depression, loneliness don’t cross our minds when we think of being independent. There are so many unhappy things that happen that little kids don’t even notice. I just started noticing them this year! How some people act around each other or treat each other or just looking at my parents and wondering if they are actually happy or not. As you get older, you slowly pick up on things that make other people unhappy. This year I realized my mom doesn’t think her mother respects her. And after paying attention, I’ve noticed small things that make me understand why she feels like that. That’s depressing stuff, adulthood

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