Max Davila 
12/1/19 
Chizzie Brown 
TLCW 4-6 
J.D.Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye Readers Book Blog #1 
 
Hello, and welcome to my first of four reader’s 
book blogs. For these blogs, I will be discussing the 
book ​The Catcher in the Rye,​ by J.D. Salinger. This book 
focuses on a particular protagonist, Holden Caulfield. 
Holden throughout the section which I’ve recently 
stopped at in the book has been seen to feel lousy and 
crappy with the things he does. What I know is that 
Holden has shown to have a bad reputation from many 
schools due to his dyslexia and his low interest in 
education.  
At the time that I stopped reading, I have 
noticed many T2S relations and differences in his life, 
due to his characteristics as a disobedient adolescent 
which does not compute with me personally, but I see 
it around me in others. Seeing others struggle with a 
lot of these same issues helps me see the essential 
question: How does literature address and express sensitive issues to the book? 
 
How did that part relate to the world around me? 
 
Holden is the protagonist of the story with a terrible reputation to add a kick-off to 
the story arc. Holden throughout his adolescent time shows less emotion to what he liked 
to do. Through the first chapter, Holden tells his experience of being expelled many times 
and how seeing people he knew from the schools that taught him everything he supposedly 
thought he knew such as reading. It was still hard for Holden to include emotion to even a 
slight goodbye to his history teacher, Mr. Spencer. Simply, however, with Salinger’s 
described setting in the book, I marked that Holden’s way of how he likes things done his 
way. Never comes to be which tells me more about him when coming towards Man V.s 
Society. 
 
“He started handling my exam paper like it was a turd or
something. “We studied the Egyptians from November 4th to December
2nd,” he said. “You ​Chose​ to write about them for the optional essay
question. Would you care to hear what you had to say?”- “No sir, not
very much,” I said. He read it anyway, though. You can’t stop a
teacher when they want to do something. They just ​do ​it.” (P.11)
  
I can sometimes take things into an alternate direction which how another would 
perceive what they meant to say. Holden greatly despised his teacher reading one of his 
worst written assignments. I can relate from this as I remember each and every time I was 
given feedback to assignments, mainly written essays that were below a 2-2.5. it hurts to 
hear what I wrote being hit back to me hard. even if there were a few mistakes on 
organization, grammar, or any writing techniques. I always feel the words my teachers give 
me with what and where I went wrong always, which drives me crazy as if it questions me 
if I’m improving or not with written assignments. But even though I feel that I feel like this 
is only happening to me, I find that people I know also feel pressured when being in a one 
on one situation especially when having to listen to things you sometimes do not want to 
hear.   
As I stopped for the first few pages of ​The Catcher in The Rye​ by J.D. Salinger, I 
would like to stop here as though the more I read and improve on the blogs, I hope my 
readers will understand when I am writing this just like Holden Caulfield when discussing 
his fictional past. As I learn more by this book about a rebellious teen, I wish as well you will 
too from my blogs. Until next time... 

The IMage & why I choose it… 

 
The image to the left describes what I have 
written above which can you all know what some 
teachers in my past have sometimes done due to me 
neglecting the fact that that I’m wrong sometimes 
due to me overworking on assignments. But though 
it is a long back and forth conversation on what I do 
and how can I improve on it the next time, let this 
image reminds you of that even though school or 
work, we all have times when we feel like we want 
others to appreciate how others would see our 
amounts of effort put to anything you have done.