I thought The Catcher and the Rye was a really good book. I enjoyed how the book was written mysteriously and different. It was one of those books that has a very good moral to it however you just have no clue what it was. I also liked how J. D. Salinger wrote the book by having Holden Caulfield as first person narrative, where he delivered this story that did not have a beginning ,middle or end. While reading this book, I felt as though I was reading Caulfields diary. I knew every little expect of what he was doing and thinking.
In The Catcher in the Rye,Holden Caulfield tells this adventurous story about his journey to home. He does a lot of reminiscing about his past and how it should be different.In the book Holden Caulfield is a very depressed teenager. He tries to act older than his age and is lonely. His brother Allie, who he was dearly close to,effected him some type of way. I think Caulfield feels that hes not important out of all his brothers and sisters. He doesn't seem to care about life too much because he messes up to much and he knows his parents doesn't expect anything from him. I was very happy in the end of the book he went home but I was still surprise that out through his journey how much he talked about Jane; he never got to see her. Knowing this, it seems like his adventure is never ending.
I would like you to check my grammer and if I stayed talking about one topic instead of jumping from one topic to another.
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I'm not sure if you maintained a consistent topic throughout. However, I do think that you seem most interested in the way Salinger chooses to tell Holden's story and how he presents him as a narrator. For the future, I would suggest trying to unpack as fully as possible the individual assertions you make in your commentary. For example, you write, "I enjoyed how the book was written mysteriously and different. It was one of those books that has a very good moral to it however you just have no clue what it was." You might have explored what it meant for you to have the reactions you express here. How did Salinger communicate a mood or tone of mystery through his writing. (Can you point to a moment in the novel emblematic of this overall response you voice?) If the moral is not apparent, how did you identify what it was? (You seem to hint that you might have an idea what it could be when you call it a 'good' one.)
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