Blog 40

I am now ready to begin the last ten blogs of the required fifty blogs we are having to do for the Honor's course summer work. I am now in the home stretch to being done. I quite frankly wish I had began these much much earlier in the summer, but hey I say that every year. I am really running out of things to right about so I tried to save the eight required questions we have to answer for each book for The Catcher in the Rye for some of my last ones because actually those questions are much much easier to blog about because we have some direction in what to do with them.

Sooo here it goes, what are the values and attitude of the author revealed throught the story? And what is the perspective the author writes in? I kind of think that the author is a little on the depressed and crazy sign. I think this because he made the main character a whiney baby. He is such a complainer, especially at the begennign of the Catcher in the Rye. Holden, the main character, always finds a way to be sad or depressed and just whine about the littlest things. It is actually quite an annoyance to me as a reader. Do not get me wrong I did actually enjoy the book, but come on Holden just needed to shutup sometimes. One thing that was really wierd is when Holden is leaving his history teacher's room, his history teacher tells him good luck(Salinger 15). For some reason this really bothers Holden and he acts as if it was so peculiar and a sin for this teacher to tell him this. I really just did not understand why this was such a big deal. At least one teacher at the school maybe a little bit cared about HOlden, at least cared enough to wish him luck with the future and what it brings to him. All Holden gets out of the good luck is how bad it is. HOlden is just a sad little depressed soul I think. The littlest things get to him so easily and it just should not be like that. Instead he should just enjoy life and make the best of what he is got. Complaining does not change what you have, it actually probably makes it worse because it changes your attitude. He just overthinks the littlest of things and it is making a much more difficult time for himself.

The author tells the story in the perspective of Holden. Holden Caulfield narrates the Catcher in the RYe in first person. He describes what he himself is seeing and his first look into his own experiences. He is the commentator of the story with the event and people. He describes each and everyone and takes the reader on a journey with him.

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and, 1991. Print.