Comparing Teenager

It has been proven that the environment that one grows up with will affect that person’s life forever. People, especially, help to mold the life of another person. The novels Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, and The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, explore periods of time in the lives of two teenage boys who are both changing because of the people around them. Ordinary People looks into the life of Conrad …

…she meets Holden, she simply states, “‘I’m going with you.’â€� Without these females in Conrad’s and Holden’s lives, recovery and problem searching would have been very difficult. The people in the novels Ordinary People and The Catcher in the Rye change the thoughts and actions of the main characters, Conrad and Holden, dramatically. Without their brothers, their parents, and their female friends, the main characters would never have changed into better people.