The Catcher in the Rye

Title: The catcher in the Rye

Author: J.D. Salinger

Genre: First-person narrative, Fiction, Novel.

Plot:

The novel begins with the voice of the narrator, a seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield. Holden starts talking how he gets kicked out of school for failing all the classes. Like all of us know, if we got expelled, our parents would twist our necks. Not risking his neck, he runs away from Percy and leads off to the streets of New York.

He starts explaining his recovery from a nervous breakdown. We don't exactly find out the whole story, but with all the clues we get the point. To find out read the book. In a couple of his first sentences he explains what is going to happen which makes us want to read even more. He also mentions his brother, D.B. who lead to his hospitalization and his recovering. The basic conflict is that holden calls everyone "phony" and hates them all. The other problem is that he wants to connect with someone, but with his personality and behavior, do you think that he got far with achieving his goal? The climax that I recognized is when Holden breaks down.