Wednesday, May 16, 2012

About the Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye is called so because of a conversation between Phoebe and Holden.  Holden has this idea of being the catcher in the rye because of an old poem which he remembers incorrectly, he thinks that the poem goes 'when a body catch a body coming through the rye' but it was actually "when a body meet a body coming through the rye".  He wants to save children from falling over a cliff that is near a field of rye as they kids a running around.  He wants to save people, and not just save them, he wants to free them from the burdens of adulthood, he wants children to never forget how to be a child.

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