“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of try 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’d do all day. I ‘d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”
I finally finished reading this book. I copied this passage from the book because I think it’s the only part that’s connected to the title of the book; moreover, I really feel something when I read this passage. Where I found the quote, is the part that Holden sneaked in the house to visit old Phoebe. And Phoebe was getting upset because she knew Holden got kicked out of school. Phoebe kept saying, “Daddy’s going to kill you.” Holden tried to make Phoebe feel better, so he tell her what he would like to be in the future-a catcher in the rye.
The reason I felt I like this passage is because: Holden seems like a bad student in every way, but he’s someone who is ambitious. He’s a dreamer. He dreams of beautiful and peaceful things and he want to get away from this ugly society. He kept picturing the kind of life he wanted but he gave it up for his little sister because he wanted his sister to be happy. From what I can tell, Holden is a good brother because he wants to protect his sister from this world, maybe it’s because he doesn’t want his sister to have a lousy childhood like he did, so when he saw bad words written on the walls in his sister’s school, he rubbed them off; when his sister was trying to follow him and wouldn’t go back to school, he gave up his dream for her. From Holden’s perspective, there weren’t many good things in this world, so he wanted to protect the only good thing happened to him, which is old Phoebe. I guess the only reason for him to become a catcher in the rye is because he wants to protect children and let them to remain innocence and pure, and then grow up happily. That’s all he wants.
The reason I felt I like this passage is because: Holden seems like a bad student in every way, but he’s someone who is ambitious. He’s a dreamer. He dreams of beautiful and peaceful things and he want to get away from this ugly society. He kept picturing the kind of life he wanted but he gave it up for his little sister because he wanted his sister to be happy. From what I can tell, Holden is a good brother because he wants to protect his sister from this world, maybe it’s because he doesn’t want his sister to have a lousy childhood like he did, so when he saw bad words written on the walls in his sister’s school, he rubbed them off; when his sister was trying to follow him and wouldn’t go back to school, he gave up his dream for her. From Holden’s perspective, there weren’t many good things in this world, so he wanted to protect the only good thing happened to him, which is old Phoebe. I guess the only reason for him to become a catcher in the rye is because he wants to protect children and let them to remain innocence and pure, and then grow up happily. That’s all he wants.