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Why would a story with an urban setting that takes place during the Christmas holidays hardly mention Christmas until amost the very end of the book: "While I was walking, I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold...
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What we take away from a book is a function of who we are, the sum of our life experiences--our world view. After two readings thirty years apart and a great deal of study and analysis, here are my insights. The teenage years are when we reject our parents and look for answers outside the family/...
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As an undergraduate in the '60s I could barely get through CATCHER. I didn't care about some crude spoiled preppy kid who couldn't get his act together. In a word, I was clueless. I reread the book last fall and discovered something profound, that Holden was suffering from PTSD stemming from the...