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Catcher In The Rye Relationships

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When two people connect with each other, they form a relationship. Whether this is formed through blood, marriage, shared interests, or friendship, relationships have a tendency to affect both parties involved. This is proven throughout the stories of Little Bee by Chris Cleave, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and Montana 1948 by Larry Watson as each character’s thoughts and decisions through the deration of the story are influenced by one another. Little Bee, The Boy, Holden, and David as well as those they interact with display the affects compeers have in a relationship as each story progresses. Over the course of these novels the affect parents or children, siblings, and friends have on the main character …show more content…

Being the only parent, and really only other person ever present in the Boy’s life, the Man is bound to hold a great influence on him. Since the start of the novel, the Man tells the Boy “Just remember the things you put in your head are there forever… You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget” (10). The Boy assimilates this very early on, so he is forced to apply it in nearly every situation he gets into. The Man must teach the Boy lessons like this due to the fact that the Boy doesn’t have a mother, so the Man must teach him things from both a maternal and paternal perspective. The Man reveals that the Boy’s mother killed herself because due to her fear of the post-apocalyptic world. Instead of having two parents to learn from, only the Man is left to transmit new information and ideas to the Boy. One abstract idea that the Man focuses on teaching the Boy is how to carry the fire. The Man fears after his death that the Boy will succumb to being one of the “bad guys.” This causes the Man to feel responsible for not only making the Boy want to live, but to live a noble life. Given their current situation, moral lapses could be easily excused, allowing them to live a barbarian lifestyle, as it may seem like the only viable choice. By using the metaphor of the fire, the Man is teaching his son that as long as the fire continues to burn inside of him, everything will be

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