Catcher in the Rye- Personal Impact

This summer, my AP English reading assignment came, and one of the three books assigned was The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The letter read “a book about a prep-school boy tells of the days preceding his admittance to a mental institution,” not what I was expecting to read that summer. Since I had never heard of the book, I saved it for last. When I began to read the …

…in seeing how others may be feeling around me, and I could never really tell, because no one could ever realize what pain and trouble were inside Holden’s mind. Holden helped me realize that not everyone does what I do, and that not everyone is truly capable of doing what I’m doing. In that, I realized that I need my own way to vent, otherwise I may end up just as Holden did.