Blog 48

Ah, I am finally on the last question that I have to answer out of the twenty four for the three books put together! Too bad it is such a difficult question to answer! How accurately does this novel reflect events in history? What responsibilities does the author believe exist between various groups in society, such as workers and bosses, men and women, blacks and whites, etc.? What people, ideas, and events probably influenced this author?...this question kind of sucks because there is basically nothing about social classes or event in history during the late nineteen fourties or early nineteen fifties, which was when the book was written. There was barely anything going on but wars and the coming to the end of wars. In the Catcher in the Rye there is no talk about the war or anything else boring going on in the time period. So actually this question is almost impossible. Especially when question five is almost the exact same. I already complained about how hard that one was to answer in myb log about question number five. Oh well, However, I will do my best to get an answer and blog about it...

One thing that I can realte to the accurate time period is that you can tell that the economy was coming out of the depression. There is no talk about not having money and the hardships everybody was facing because of the economic problems. Where as in grapes of Wrath the whole book was about the hardships of the great depression. The crops were dry, people were unhappy, and everyone was depressed(Steinbeck 91). In the Catcher in the rye there is no talk about this, which is good and a lot let depressing than the other book, the Grapes of Wrath! Maybe that is why I enjoyed it as much as I did, even though I can not really answer the questions we have to answer because I do not feel like this book is the right piece for students to read and analyze for school...


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

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.