Catcher in the Rye

Crit Scholer 4-28-00 English 2 Ms. Nessier, Period 4 Societies Influence Upon Humanity Rejection is the key to self-destruction. Rejection of an individual could possibly cause the mental deterioration (nervous breakdown) of that individual due to the repudiation of society. Ostracization is not always induced by the physical appearance of a person but is sometimes caused by a character flaw. In both J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and E.L. Doctorow’s …

…individual looks inward upon himself or herself and attempts to find faults in their character and eventually wind up loathing themselves. Society rejected three students who lived in Columbine because of their differences. The students took revenge upon members of their school society by shooting their classmates. The rejects, after their act, turned inward and detested themselves for their own faults and committed suicide. Each individual in the world is a possible victim of society.