What is the Novel’s Title?
The Catcher in the Rye
Who Wrote the novel?
When Was this
published?
How Many chapters does
it have?
Who’s the main
character in the novel?
Who’s the villain in the
Novel?
How is the Novel
Written?
What is/are the
novelist’s inspirations for
this story?
Where the story does
focuses?
Why did the novelist
write this story?
How does it differ with
Noli Me Tangere?
J.D Salinger
July 16, 1951
25 Chapters
Holden Caulfield
Phoebe Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye is written in the first person, with Holden
acting as both protagonist and narrator, signaling we are getting
his limited, biased view of events.
Its author, J D Salinger, might appear the quintessential New
York writer. But it has emerged that his most celebrated work
was inspired by the sights and sounds of Devon, where Salinger
spent three months during the Second World War.
According to most analyses, The Catcher in the Rye is a
bildungsroman, a novel about a young character's growth into
maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such
terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a
bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of
maturity itself.
For Salinger himself, writing The Catcher in the Rye was an act of
liberation. The bruising of Salinger's faith by the terrible events
of war is reflected in Holden's loss of faith, caused by the death
of his brother Allie.
For how also Rizal fought for our country by means of writing.
Which is “The pen is mightier than the sword”