THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.

Presented by Anique van Gorp

Grade 9

INTRODUCTION

UNIT QUESTION

• What does it mean to grow up?

1. Responsibility- Keeping a job- Taking care for yourself and your family- Paying your own bills

2. Mentally growing up• You want to learn more about things• You care more about yourself and others

3. Physically growing up• Becoming taller• More hair• Broader shoulders

As you grow up, you step in a new world. You discover more about stuff you didn’t even know you could do and you learn more about yourself. I think that is the most beautiful thing of growing up.

WHO IS J.D. SALINGER?

Best known work: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. (1951)

Born and grew up in the fashionable apartment in Manhatten, New York.

Salinger’s early short stories appeared in magazines: Story, Saturday Evening Post.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure," said Salinger in 1974 to a New York Times correspondent.

QUOTES

Don't tell anybody... anything.If you do, you start missing everybody.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”

I don't even know what I was running for - I guess

I just felt like it.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Is Holden a strong character?

How can you explain the title?

MY RESPONSE TO THE BOOK

Holden

Language

Relationship between Holden and Jane

My P

oster

Thank you for listening!