- The book has the rebelliousness of teenagers in it, (Holden failing all his classes)
- Smoking was not a big deal in that time
- Swearing wasn’t common in teen literature at the time, one of the first
- Some people really identify with it
- Was read in the Soviet Union: used as propaganda by the Soviets to show what was wrong with capitalism
- Because of damage caused by Hinckley attempting assassinate Reagan and hitting John Brady causing permanent brain damage, a law was passed for 15 days to get the gun – Hinckley wanted people to know about the book
- Not only attempted assassination- John Lennon assassination by Chapman
- J. D. Salinger born in 1919 – dad was a Rabbi who owned a ham and meat store
- Jewish comes from the mother’s side
- J. D. Salinger didn’t know till later as was raised Jewish
- nicknamed Sonny or Jerry
- flunked out of a really exclusive prep school- basis for Pencey
- got sent to Valley Forge Military School
- Goes to NYU and flunks, went to Colombia (late 1930s) and met a professor that encouraged him to write
- didn’t play the rules
- Drafted in 1942 and let out many years later
- In D-Day, day 1- when people were being mowed down, in counter intelligence, and Battle of the Bulge
- Also helped liberate a concentration camps, many dead bodies piled in stacks, also experiments there
- got shell shocked, also known as PTSD now
- Never talked about all of this stuff, part of him died
- wrote The Catcher in the Rye and studied different types of religions, not western, Zen Buddhism and Hinduism
- Asks where do the ducks go relates to Zen Buddhism
- got married to a Gestapo informant, lasted 8 months
- liked to write short stories, said long stories harder to write
- wrote about two families- Caulfield and Glass?
- lived very well off royalties of just The Catcher in the Rye
- he is concerned with innocence and its preservation- children, the white car, wanted everything to be static and not to change
- lived in a compound, and wanted to be alone
- didn’t like how people how people worshiped him, was a recluse
- had a house for writing- when he died they found a lot of stories that he wrote but never published, ex. An ocean full of bowling balls- talks about Alie? who is not feeling well but is talking to DB and talking about Holden, family said they were going to publish more of his stories
- had a history for going for much younger women- 18 year old vs her 53 year old, wanted to control her which was he broke up with her
- no evidence that he was a child molester, but liked to be around younger people for their innocence in Catcher
- Mom was a Scottish immigrant
- Sunny and DB, calls both of the same occupation as he feels his brother does what others wants only like Sunny, both had ties to Hollywood also
- Holden uses hyperbole and exaggeration a lot
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