Tim Winton's That eye the sky and JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye's techniques used to express their ideas

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…ove and faith being present when the holy spirit exacts miracles which changes lives. Salinger, on the other hand, emphasised ideas of the individual and society and the pressure to conform to its ways. However, both authors expressed similar ideas regarding childhood; the innocence, the faith, the awareness, the corruption and the inevitably approaching cliff of adulthood. In every sense, through similar and different techniques, Winton and Salinger expressed these ideas with startling clarity.