From reading the first page of the catcher in the rye, to be honestly, I don’t really know very much about the book, however, I did learn something from it.
The style of the book is pretty simple, and there aren’t many long or complex sentences in it. And about the tone and mood, from reading just a few sentences, I have a feeling that the narrator is a little bit impatient and all. Maybe he’s even a bit angry. Keep reading. I guess most people have the same feeling there as I did when I was reading it: the diction is very special. How so? On the first page, there are already words like “lousy” “damn” “goddam” and even “prostitute”. So we can see that maybe the character is a teenager and may not be a behaved one, kind of a bad boy maybe. Also, I noticed the author used “I” in most of the sentences so that I think the narrator is the main character himself, Holden Caulfield, and moreover, he’s telling the story about himself. At the beginning of the book, he told things like some background information about himself, however, he stopped after he mentioned his parents, I think maybe he’s one of those people that doesn’t like others know too much about him. After I finished reading the first page of the novel, somehow, I felt like I can’t really see the theme because he started to talk about things that happened last Christmas, which makes me confused because I couldn’t see how is it related to the title of the novel. But he started to reveal some clues of the theme after the first page… Anyways, finally, I think this book is a little bit irony, because the language he uses maybe, and also the attitude and how he sees things.
The style of the book is pretty simple, and there aren’t many long or complex sentences in it. And about the tone and mood, from reading just a few sentences, I have a feeling that the narrator is a little bit impatient and all. Maybe he’s even a bit angry. Keep reading. I guess most people have the same feeling there as I did when I was reading it: the diction is very special. How so? On the first page, there are already words like “lousy” “damn” “goddam” and even “prostitute”. So we can see that maybe the character is a teenager and may not be a behaved one, kind of a bad boy maybe. Also, I noticed the author used “I” in most of the sentences so that I think the narrator is the main character himself, Holden Caulfield, and moreover, he’s telling the story about himself. At the beginning of the book, he told things like some background information about himself, however, he stopped after he mentioned his parents, I think maybe he’s one of those people that doesn’t like others know too much about him. After I finished reading the first page of the novel, somehow, I felt like I can’t really see the theme because he started to talk about things that happened last Christmas, which makes me confused because I couldn’t see how is it related to the title of the novel. But he started to reveal some clues of the theme after the first page… Anyways, finally, I think this book is a little bit irony, because the language he uses maybe, and also the attitude and how he sees things.