“The Catcher in the Rye”
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“The Catcher in the Rye”
American Literature After World War II
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Jerome David Salinger was born in 1919 in …
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His father was a prosperous importer of …
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The boy grew up with a … who was eight years old than he.
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Salinger failed to do well … .
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His parents enrolled him in the Valley Forge Academy in … which was a military academy.
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There at night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flashlight beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger wrote his first … .
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On graduating the Valley Forge Academy he told his parents that he wanted to become a … .
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Salinger was sent to … to learn the ham business.
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For a couple of months he slaughtered pigs and waggoned them through the snow with the slaughter master. Then he returned to the … .
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The first story he published was the …
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During World War II he spent … years in the army.
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He was assigned to discover Gestapo agents by interviewing … citizens.
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In 1944 Salinger met … .
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Salinger’s stories published in 1946 in the New Yorker, a very respectable literary magazine, brought him fame as a … .
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“The Catcher in the Rye” was published in …, became a bestseller.
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The book tells us the tale of Holden Caulfield, a troubled adolescent who leaves his fancy prep school for … .
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Always a private man, Salinger became increasingly reclusive throughout the … .
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Eventually he stopped making public … or statements of any kind.
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One of his stories, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”, was filmed. But Hollywood turned it into a “soap opera”, that is to say, made a … film characterized by little action and much sentiment. Hi
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His works written in the …, the years of the Cold War, depict young boys and girls who have been justly called by critics the “silent generation”, because they cannot find their way in the post-war chaos.
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He also hates American … because they are meant to fool the public into buying things whether they need them or not.
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Holden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old pupil in the Pencey Preparatory school, which is a boarding school for boys from well-to-do families. Just before the … vacation begins, he is expelled - kicked out - - for not studying.
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He has failed in every subject except … .
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Throughout the story Holden tries to find out what people … .
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