#catcher in the rye
People talk about Catcher in the Rye like Holden Caulfield spends his time kicking orphans he finds on the street and then u read the book and he’s literally just some guy
can we talk about that in catcher in the rye, holden unironically cares about when other people get excited and start talking really fast about something they enjoy? and he hates the fact that anyone else would ever stop someone from talking about something they love, and he is disgusted at humans, like teachers or other people around him for shutting someone down when they’re genuinely excited and happy? this book was written in 1950s, man, and holden is still so relatable! like, holden is fundamentally good, and the reason he feels so alienated is because he understands that the world is ugly, and he is disgusted and angryby this world, and i think that’s amazing.
“i’m just going through a phase right now. everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?”
is there even a catcher in the rye fandom on tumblr?? lol i have no idea, but if so i hope y'all/the general public like this one
what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against
for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter
what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against
for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter
호밀밭의 파수꾼 #1 (Catcher in the Rye vocab)
some, not all, of the words I had to look up in Ch. 1
끔찍하다: adj. extremely; horrible; devoted
지겹다: adj. boring
시시콜콜하다: adj. stingy
더군다나: adv. moreover
자서전: n. autobiography
추호도: (not) in the least
어처구니: n. being unspeakable, absurd
단연: adv. obviously
변절하다: v. betray, change sides
낄낄거리: v. giggle, snicker
애처롭다: adj. pitiful, pathetic
터무니없다: adj. absurd, groundless
엉터리: n. nonsense, sham; fake, fraud
따돌리다: v. exclude; evade
낙제점: n. failing grade
우글러기: v. swarm
부유하다: adj. wealthy
들끓다: v. be crowded with; be controversial
“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
I re-read The Cather in the Rye at least once every two months. Not crazy, just miss Holden’s voice.
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“I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
–J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Name a book you had to read for a high school English class that you genuinely enjoyed reading/are glad to have read.
I’ll go first:The Great Gatsby, Frankenstein, Hamlet, A Doll’s House, The Handmaid’s Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Kate Chopin’s works
Honourable mentions that I didn’t necessarily mind: Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, Their Eyes Were Watching God
First edition of the author’s first book.
Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.
It begins, “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”.
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what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against
for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter
