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The Catcher In The Rye, a novel written by J.D. Salinger, is appropriate reading for today's youth although he wrote this book in 1951. It is apparent that this title has a lot to do with the contents of the book. Holden Caulfield, the main character, said at one ....

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.... on the wall and he did not want them reading it. He thought it may corrupt them and said, "It drove me damn near crazy". The title also relates to the theme, which is essentially that Holden Caulfield, a prep-school dropout, seems only to relate to his younger sister, Phoebe. He is an adolescent who finds himself alone, lost and troubled, in addition to being a compulsive liar. He tries to make sense out of life, but he's so confused that he cannot. Holden saw other reasons why people do things, not just what is on the surface. Then he thought that they were phonies, especially the lawyers who he said do not really "save the innocent guys". W ....