Review of The Catcher In The Rye

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Catcher in the Rye

This is a review of the book called The Catcher In The Rye. It is by Jonathon .D. Salinger. It is a narration, by a boy called Holden Caulfield, of his teenage life, from when he was expelled from Pencey Grammar to where he is now. He finds out he has been expelled from Pencey but his parents do not know. He has been expelled before from schools and he doesn’t want his parents to find out so he runs away and spends a couple of nights in New York, one in a hotel and one in a train station. He has a little sister who he misses so much that he goes home late at night without his parents finding out and he meets his sister secretly. Later he decides to leave home and he arranges to meet his sister for the last time but something surprising happens

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The main character is a 17-year-old boy ho feels let down y the world and he cannot ignore the faults that so many other people can. He is very good at analysing characters and very often calls people ‘phoney’ and you actually agree with him. He has a sad moment when he is staying with a teacher, his last means of hope in this world and he is let down by him and this tips him over the edge. The other main character in this is Phoebe, his little sister who Holden loves. The reader starts to love her ...

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