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: I'm a senior at Kuna High School in Kuna, Idaho I must do an online review of this book. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, which centers on a 16-year-old New York schoolboy, Holden Caulfield. After Holden is expelled from Pencey, a boarding school for his poor results in his studies, he decides to spend a couple of days in New York before he has to return home. The novel follows his encounters with prostitutes, pimps, nuns, an ex girlfriend and all the other people he meets in New York. Becoming increasingly depressed after seeing the world around him, he decides to run away from home rather than tell his parents he has been expelled from Pencey. When he goes home briefly to collect his belongings, he decides to stay because of his love for his younger sister Phoebe when she begs him to take her with him. : The storyline doesn't seem to be very intellectual, or even original, but the story is really about Caulfield's 4 day subtle decline into a nervous breakdown, and steep depression. An admirable feature of this book is how good the author conveys his state of mind but also manages to maintain a good story by adding silly jokes to the main story. Such as a heated debate between Caulfield and a New York taxi driver on whether fish get frozen in place when ponds are iced over during the winter. This gives The Catcher in the Rye the advantage of showing the reader Caulfield's descent into a nervous breakdown but also manages to maintain an entertaining kind of black humor. Because of its simplistic style, the book is much easier to read than other novels which study human nature. Such as Lord of the Flies, because it is from the viewpoint of only one person, Caulfield's slightly demented view of the world, it offers a good insight into his character and his thoughts. The ending of the novel, where a recovering Holden Caulfield tells the reader what happened after he went home and his hopes for the future, is a particularly satisfying conclusion. Although Salinger's novel is over fifty years old, it still manages to keep a refreshing style of writing and relevance to it, and it is as funny and easy to read as contemporary. This book has gained a mive cult following and can be found in many bookshops and libraries all over the world. An international best-seller, and also an entertaining study of a r's mind, it certainly rates as an excellent read and The Catcher in the Rye is definitely worth recommending to anyone, young or old, to read.

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