Blog 43

I had to split the third question about human nature and the universal themes into two different blogs because I just had to much to say, and I did not want to waste what could be two blogs in just writing a really long one because quite frankly I am about out of ideas on how to get to fifty.

The theme as I said in the previous blog is about growing up and is shown through the main character, Holden. Also through the main character the author shows some of the things he understands about human nature through Holden Caulfield's actions.

The author actually made Holden a bit of a whiney baby. By doing so I believe that the author understands some things about human nature that I do not. He shows a whole new way to me of how some people operate. That they never think that they are good enough no matter how hard they try. He shows that some people seriously drasticly overthink things and just eat themselves up over it for seriously no reason. Holden just gets so depressed over the tinniest things. Everything he does he just always finds something wrong with it. He always just seems so sad. Being sad and overthinking things just do not seem worth it to me.

Holden also way overthinks things with other people. For instance in the story Holden tells a story about a tiem when he owned some suitcases that were better than the ones his roomate had. He says that he felt like trading with his roomate.(Salinger 108). I guess I just do not understand how Holden could feel this bad over something as small and meaningless as a suitcase. He overthank the whole entire situation and had way to much emotion into the problem, all for a suitcase, until he was unhappy with himself and depressed over the whole thing. The author showed me that he understands how some people's brains and operating system do behave. It is peculiar to me because I my brain does not work this way at all.

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