The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger Presented By: -Joormana Brahma -Digvijay Singh -Koride Sarita -P Bhargavi -Siddharth Gupta -Titiksha Dikshit

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired the world, was born in New York City on 1 st Jan, After brief periods of enrollment at both NYU and Columbia University, Salinger devoted himself entirely to writing, and by 1940 he had published several short stories in periodicals. Although his career as a writer was interrupted by World War II, after returning from service in the U.S. Army in 1946 Salinger resumed a writing career primarily for The New Yorker magazine. About the Author

Salinger received major critical and popular recognition with The Catcher in the Rye (1951), the story of Holden Caulfield, a rebellious boarding school student who attempts to run away from the adult world that he finds "phony."The Catcher in the Rye In many ways reminiscent of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Salinger's novel finds great sympathy for its wayward child protagonist. After the publication and massive success of the book, Salinger became increasingly reclusive and refused to give interviews or be photographed. He died on January 27 th 2010, aged 91. "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing," J.D. Salinger told The New York Times in "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure."

About the book The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel. Originally published for adults, it has since become popular for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, sexuality, alienation, and rebellion. The Catcher in the Rye is famous as the most censored, banned and challenged book between 1966 and 1975 for being "obscene," with an "excess of vulgar language, sexual scenes, and things concerning moral issues.“ It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than sixty-five million. The novel was included on a 2005 Time Magazine list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923,and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The novel's plot is simple, detailing seventeen-year-old Holden's experiences in New York City following his expulsion, and departure, from an elite prep school. The book is more notable for the iconic persona and testimonial voice of its first-person narrator, Holden Caulfield. He serves as an insightful but unreliable narrator who expounds on the importance of loyalty, the "phoniness" of adulthood, and his own duplicity. In a 1953 interview with a high-school newspaper, Salinger admitted that the novel was "sort of" autobiographical, explaining that "My boyhood was very much the same as that of the boy in the book... It was a great relief telling people about it." Plot Synopsis

Writing Style subjective style stream of consciousnessThe Catcher in the Rye is written in a subjective style from the point of view of its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, following his exact thought process (a writing style known as stream of consciousness). There is flow in the seemingly disjointed ideas and episodes about experiences. juxtaposition foilsThe events of this book are not organized haphazardly, and in many instances Salinger displays his brilliance in the juxtaposition of two events in order to display contradictions and foils. Holden's criticism of society is brutally honest: his profanity is atrocious, and he levels his knife against everything from religion to homosexuality without flinching. Finally, Salinger knows when to break the heaviness of his subject matter with humor.

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