Salinger and Claire were divorced in 1965. His children were Matthew born in 1960 and Margret Ann born in 1955. His wife was Claire Douglas, they were married in 1955. Salinger was also in the D-Day of June-6-1944. Salinger wrote many stories while in the army. Salinger wrote The catcher In the Rye and published it in 1951, which became a best selling book. Salinger wrote short stories in magazines such as the Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker in the 1940s. He never graduated from any of the schools. While moving around he attended a couple of colleges, like Columbia University. Salinger grew up in Manhatten and moved around between various prep schools until his parents decided he would stay in the Valley Forge Military Academy in 1934 (Valley Forge Military Academy was said to be the model of Pency Prep High School in the novel). Salingers father was Sol Salinger (some people say he was a wealthy cheese importer, Others say ham) his mother was Miriam Salinger. Southard" at David Salinger was born on New Year’s Day in 1919. You can follow his writing via his blog "The Musings and Artful Blunders of Scott D. Scott Southard is the author of the new novel "Permanent Spring Showers" and "A Jane Austen Daydream". In the end, Holden doesn’t give up on the world, and maybe that is Salinger’s true message. It’s sad that this moment of redemption gets far less attention than the morose tone of the rest of the book. In the end, Holden breaks through his angst, finding inspiration in the innocence of his beloved sister stuck on a carousal during a rainstorm. Those three days are his exorcism, pushing his pessimistic view of humanity out. The difference between Holden and the people that find inspiration in its nihilistic philosophy is that Holden does find some kind of meaning in the world. Most authors would consider such a psychological premise like that for a short story, but Salinger stretches it out over 200 pages, diving deeper and deeper into Holden’s spiritual downward spiral.
Whether it comes from typical teenage angst or simply watching reality television, we all sometimes wonder…does anything really matter? The Catcher in the Rye struggles with the dark thought that maybe everything is fake and meaningless. Those moments when we look around the world and think everything is ridiculous, phony and worth hating. It’s the fact that it taps into the part of our psyche that we all share from time to time. What makes this book dangerous is not its history or hidden intentions. He never finds the love he is hoping for or finds any reason to believe in humanity. Everyone disappoints Holden, from favorite teachers that never seem to say the right thing, the mentor who makes an advance on him, and friends who just don’t get him. And since no one does, he sees everyone as phonies, people that are really not quite human. Holden spends that time wandering around New York City, just begging for someone to really listen to him. The book’s timeline spans only three days. Holden Caulfield is a lonely teenager who has just been expelled from an elite, East Coast prep school. It’s feelings about humanity, its desire for meaning and purpose are all things we readers can relate to. At its heart, "Catcher in the Rye" is a tragic and personal story about a young man just trying to figure out the world around him and his place in it. This year for Banned Books Week, the trick for me was forgetting that controversial history and just focusing on the story itself. People who are critical of the book being taught in school point to the work’s language and questionable morals. Time Magazine listed Salinger’s most famous work as the number four most banned book in the United States. Recently, I read the Judy Blume novel "In the Unlikely Event." In that work, a character is given a copy of the book and along with it, a sense of eerie foreboding.
Whenever you see a character in another story or even a movie reading it, you can’t help but think that something bad is going to happen.
The novel has become more than a novel, it’s become its own literary device. It has been linked to the assassination attempt on President Reagan and the killing of John Lennon, supposedly inspiring those troubled readers in their unspeakable tasks. There are few books in American literature as controversial as "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Scott Southard brings us a review on one of the most famous banned books, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Next week is Banned Books Week, that time when we celebrate the controversial side of the literary world.