The Catcher in the Rye #7

The book uses a different way to draw in the reader than a lot of books use since it is written in first person. It seems like a narrator is speaking only to you. Holden is saying exactly what he is saying and is saying it directly to you, as if you were having a conversation with him. I think this makes the book a lot easier to read. It made the narrator seem like a real person rather than just a character in a book. "I'm lucky, though. I mean I could shoot the old bull to old Spencer and think about those ducks at the same time. It's funny. You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher. All of a sudden, though, he interrupted me while I was shooting the bull. He was always interrupting you." (Salinger 18) By the way it sounds it really makes you feel like he's talking to you and your in the story with him. Salinger also wrote in a way that made you sad and made you feel sorry for Holden. The whole story was focused on negative things happening to Holden and hardly anything in the story was happy. That was very different from any other story I have read. Almost everything I read made me feel bad that Holden was going through what he was going through. It made me kind of understand how horrible it would be to have a mental illness or feel so sad all the time like Holden did. I wish I could do something for him or for others that feel that way because I bet a lot of them are misunderstood. Not a lot of people realize all the things they have to go through. I could really relate to Holden though, too. Even though there was a lot I didn't understand about him he seemed like a real person. I could see myself being like him at a few parts. Like when he really wanted to call Jane but didn't feel like it all the time. He would also get nervous all the time, which I do also. Salinger did a very good job writing this story and making Holden seem like he was a real person and it seemed more like a biography than a fictional story.