2007-06-20 18:27:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
He likes protecting the innocence of children, and he hates the "posers", if you will, of society, the people who pretend to be something they're not.
2007-06-20 18:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He hates phonies and loves honesty. He sees most adults as being phony and children as innocent. His big problem is that he feels that people become phonies when they grow up, hence wanting to protect children - to be their 'catcher'. It all stems from his brother's Allie's death and he feels guilty that by growing up he is leaving him behind. However, at the end of the book he realises that he can't do anything about this, life is about taking chances and even when things go wrong it will be ok.
Read the following sections:
- worrying about what happens to the ducks (nature will take care of them)
- rubbing out the swear words on the wall (he realises that there are too many)
- grabbing the ring (it's a bit dangerous but it's fun)
Best wishes.
2007-06-24 01:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by K H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holden hates things that are phony. People consumed by materialism and not living genuinely. Holden is a victim of class society in a bording school, which he ultimately gets kicked out of.
Holden sounds fondly in a scene...Holden is talking with Phoebe, his little sister, and he says that he wishes he could be the catcher in the rye. He wishes he could be the person who stands in the field of rye and catches the children if they start to fall over the cliff. The children falling over the cliff is a metaphor for growing up. Holden wants to catch them so that they don’t loose themselves as they become adults. That’s the one thing he wants to do. He wants people to keep their humble, childlike innocence. The hard crash at the bottom of the cliff usually triggers a big ego that prevents people from seeing reality and living genuinely.
My favorite quote: “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
Love this book by the way...I've read it over many times.
slkrchck above me is right...Holden would be disappointed in you if you don't read this book.
2007-06-20 18:37:58 · answer #3 · answered by East Lansing Brat 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Holden likes anything pure, innocent and genuine. That is why he likes little kids, the nuns who are untouched by the corruption in the stories that they teach, Jane Gallagher who is comfortable holding hands, the ducks in Central Park...and all the things that are pure.
Inversely, of course, he hates all things fake or 'phony'. Thats why he hates even those things in himself that are phony...like his interest in sex etc.
Its a great book, the best part being that its told from a teenager's point of view. Ur missing a lot if ur not reading it!
2007-06-20 23:48:45 · answer #4 · answered by rayofmoonlite 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hates phonies, loves kids.
2007-06-20 18:33:27 · answer #5 · answered by Neely O'Hara 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He hates phonies and loves little children, whom he wants to protect.
2007-06-20 18:31:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ben710 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He really loved his sister, Phoebe. He hated the establishment and he thought he liked sex even if he had not experienced it.
2007-06-21 00:49:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not read the book and make your own mind up?
2007-06-20 20:10:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he hates it when boys don't read their homework.get off the computer and get back to work young man
2007-06-20 18:35:20 · answer #9 · answered by slkrchck 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋