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Catcher In The Rye: A Short Story

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In the evening of September 8, the time to move in for students at Penn State, boy around the age of 19 years, sits on his bed in his small and typical-looking dorm room. He has the dorm keys in his hand with a blank stare at the white, yet dirty wall. He hears a banging at the door, followed with a repeated sigh and some curse words thrown in, which had immediately pulled him out of his daze. The boy quickly gets up to see what all the noise was, and as he opens the door, he sees a very pissed off boy around the same age as himself. The boy introduces himself, “Hi I’m Holden Caulfield, I think you’re my roommate, but somehow I lost my goddamn keys.” The other boy responds nervously, “Oh yes, hi I’m Michael, but you should call me Zits, you …show more content…

“I’m heading out, I heard the frat house across the street are having a party.” He slams the door making the car keys fall and hit the ground. As Holden is walking down the street, Zits decides to stay in and play videogames, which consisted of Call of Duty and later switches to the game of mario kart; on the other hand, Holden is out being social and finding his new group of party friends. As the night goes on, he loses track of the amount that he has drank and he finds himself stumbling down the street back to what he thought was his dorm. But, later comes to find that he walked into the admissions building, walking right into a trap. As he continues to stumble, the Dean of Penn State walks up to him with a red face and fists in both hands. She says, “Excuse me sir.” Holden ignores her in confusion, “Come here young man.” He stops suddenly and lashes out, “who the hell are you.” “My name is Mrs. Smith and I’m the dean here at Penn State. Now tell me why you’re here on a Friday at 3 a.m.” Holden has the face of total dismay, she continues to yell, “Come into my office young man and let us sort this

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