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Catcher in the Rye is a book written by J.D Salinger. It was made in 1951. It begins with Holden (Main character) explaining he is in a mental hospital. Then he explain's that he wants to tell about some things that happend to him on christmas break. '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.I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.' //Catcher in the Rye PG.1//It all starts on a saturday with Holden missing Pency prep's, an exclusive school, football game. He explaines he is the manager of the fencing team and he has lost the teams equipment on the subway earlier, which has made pency lose to the New York fencing team. He then goes to his history teachers home, Mr. Spencer to say goodbye. He tells him he will not be returning to Peny after christmas break, which starts on wednesday because he has been expelled. One of three schools he has been expelled from. He then goes to his quiet dormroom to read but is interupted and irritated by Ackley, who he describes as Pimply and irritating with discusting habits and hygenie. Then Holden gets more annoyed because he finds out his roomate Stradlater is on a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden used to date and still likes very much. Stradlater asks Holden to do a paper on a theme but ends up writing about his deceased brother Allies baseball glove. Holden becomes nervous of Stradlater and Jane's date fearing they have had intercourse. When Stradlater comes back he is mad that Holden has not done his assignment correctly. They start to fight but Stradlater wins by punching and giving Holden a bloody nose. Leaving him on the floor. Holden then decides to leave pency because he thinks they are all 'phony'. He says this about leaving places,'What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to //know// I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.' He catches a train to New York and plans to stay at a Hotel until Wednesday. On the train he meets one of his class mates mother. He thinks the class mate is a 'bastard' he tells the woman lies aabout her son such as how her son is shy and well respected. He finally arrives at the Penn station. He goes in a phone booth and conciders calling many people but then doesn't call anyone. He gets in a cab and asks the driver where the ducks go when the lake freezes but the cab driver gets annoyed. He then checks into the Edmont Hotel. In his from he sees a man putting on womans clothing and then sees a man and woman taking turns spitting into each others faces and laughing. He is both surprisingly discusted and arosed by the actions. Holden then calls Faith Cavendish a woman he belives is a stripper. She says she can not go over there at the time but says she can the next day. Holden does not want to wait that long and hangs up. He then goes to the lavender room where he meets three torists. He dances with them and thinks he is 'Half in love' with the blonde torist because she dances well. Soon they leave and he winds up paying there bill. Holden leaves and starts to think of Jane Gallenger and how they met. Holden then leaves the hotel. He gets a cab and asks the cab driver about the ducks and the cab driver is even more annoyed then the first one.Hde goes to a place called Ernies. He sees and talks to a girl named Lillian Simmons, a girl his brother used to date. She invites him to sit with her and her date. He says he has to go meet someone and walks back to the Edmont. Then Marice the elevator operator tells him he will send a proctitute to his room for five dollors. Then the proctitue named 'sunny' comes in the room she takes off her dress but he tells her he has had surgery and would just like to talk. She then sits on his lap, But he gives her the five dollors and walks her out the door. Sometime later Marice comes back with sunny demanding another five dollars. They get into a altercation and Marice puches Holden in the stomach and Sunnny takes five dollars out of his pocket. Holden then sleeps. Then wakes up and calls sally Hayes and they decide to see a play. Holden leaves the hotel and checks his bag into Grand Central Station and has some breakfast. He then meets two nuns and finds that one is a english teacher and talks about Romeo and juliet. Holden then looks for a record for his sister Phoebe who is smart for her age (ten) called,Little shirley beans. Then hears a little boy singing, "If a body meet a body coming through the rye" (A poem by Robert Burns) Which he mistakes for as,"If a body catch a body coming through the rye." Which makes Holden feel better. Holden then goes and see's the play with Sally. Then they go ice skating at radio city. While drinking some coke Holden asks Sally to run away with him. She says no. Holden is annoyed and says,"You give me a royal pain in the ass if you want to know the truth," But then regrets it when she storms off. He apologize's but gives up and goes to see a christmas show. He watchs a movie (Which he hates to do) and gets really drunk. He continues to worry about the ducks. Through out everything he starts to think of the musem he visited alot when he was a child. He goes to his house and goes to see his sister by tip toeing to her room only to find she isn't there but his older brothers room. He again tip toes there. They talk and dance and between everything Phoebe (Sister) asks Holden what he wants to be when he grows up. To which he says,"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And 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 do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."-J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 22 After his visit with his sister he goes to see an old English teacher Mr. Antolini. He is offered a place to sleep and given life advice. But in the middle of the night he feels Mr. Antolini patting his head in a "Flitty" Way. He quickly makes an excuse to leave. Holden then decides he will go to the west were he will live in silence. He tells his sister in the morning and she decides she wants to go with him. He says no and Phoebe gets upset. So for her happiness he decides not to go. She is still upset so he takes her to the Central park zoo. And he watches as she happly rides the carousel. In the end Holden says he is at a mental hospital and says he will be going to another school in september. He finds he misses Ackely and Stradlater and Maurice and ending by saying when you start to tell people about your experiances, You start to miss the people you shared them with.

The catcher in the rye (Written by J.D. Salinger) was a controversial book in 1950’s because of Holden’s actions which were cursing, drinking, involved with sexual behavior, and many other things. It was controversial but in high demand. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year. Peyton place is a book by Grace Metalious. It was a controversial book in which the people of //Peyton Place// are always watching each other. The book is controversial because it contains rape, incest, hate, abortion, drunkenness, cursing, suicide, and lying. It was so controversial it was banned in some places.

Comin thro' the rye Written by Robert Burns Translated into standard english

O Jenny is all wet, poor body, Jenny is seldom dry: She draggled all her petticoats, Coming through the rye!

Coming through the rye,poor body, Coming through the rye, She draggled all her petticoats, Coming through the rye!

Should a body meet a body Coming through the rye, Should a body kiss a body, Need a body cry?

Should a body meet a body Coming through the glen, Should a body kiss a body, Need the world know?

Should a body meet a body Coming through the grain, Should a body kiss a body, The thing is a body's own.