Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Timelessness of "The Catcher in the Rye"

The Catcher in the Rye is a timeless book with a timeless message. There are many reasons people still read this book today. A few of these reasons are the lessons they can learn from it and the excitement they can feel while they read it. Many people can feel excitement while they read The Catcher in the Rye, because it is easy to get caught up in Holden Caulfield's adventures. Holden travels all over the city doing whatever he wants to do. He pays attention to no one except himself. He also constantly comes close to being caught, so there is consistent fear of being found out. The Catcher in the Rye, since the lessons that can be learned from it are so important. It shows that while bullying has been going on for a long time, it really needs to be stopped. Bullying took a young boy's life in the book, so it proves to the world that bullying is incredibly harmful. Bullying can become all that the bullied person thinks about, and it become so intense that the bullied person wants to take their own life. Bullying only hurts people, and The Catcher in the Rye shows how bad it can really become. Being out of school really hurts people in the long run, because it prevents them from learning the things that their future employers would be looking for. It also gets more children on the street with nothing to do, so there is a greater chance of vandalism happening. Children not being in school makes them ignorant, which causes bad things to happen, because those children do not know anything different. Children being out of school will just hurt them in the end, because they will be behind everyone else that stayed in school and will just have a harder time finding a good job. The Catcher in the Rye is a timeless book that has a message that should be read by everyone.

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