This book is one of America's classics used in countless high schools as a literature standard. In light of this recent Coronavirus pandemic, I searched through some books I've been dying to revisit and appreciate. The Catcher in the Rye is one of them.
Set in the 1950's Pennsylvania, this book delves in a young man's life of borderline teenage years to leap into inevitable adulthood. It's simply a story of a boy's age of becoming. In his efforts to get through this threshold of life, he encounters individual, social, and personal challenges.
One quote, that says it all. ". . . I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all."
It's a reminder, that we all struggle in one way or the other, it's how we manage our lives that makes a difference in who we ultimately become. In this day and age, it's only fitting that we must revisit how we behave and how we really treat ourselves and others.
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