Catcher in the Rye Research
Often times people find themselves lost. They don’t know where they are headed or what they want. I don’t mean that they actually are unsure of where they will be physically, but I mean it in a mental sense. Others have found out where they were headed and couldn’t bear with it that idea, so they turned and found that they didn’t want to head that way. In this sense they have become disillusioned and have little effort to continue down that path. Another way to say that would be to say that they have become apathetic. Repeating the same process over and over again leads to a droning agony that is so loud you cannot hear it, or we choose to ignore it, much like the ticking hand on a clock, we forget that it was ticking all this
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So people get breakdowns. It can happen because they also become disappointed at life with someone’s death. These people then find little meaning to keep going and then they start realising the small discrepancies in life. Such things can like realising how fake people can be, how useless some things are, how meaningless are the things that we tell ourselves we have to do. We follow things so much by arbitrary rules that we end up missing up on what we had originally wanted. We follow paths, or a forced to take paths that are dull, corrupt, bastardized versions of our original goals. In effect, we lose the love we had for those things, and ous disenchantment shrouds us from ever continuing such absurd errands. Similarly, people have written about their musing and views on this topic, people that have lived through this sort of thing. One of them was J.D. Salinger, whose life in the Second World War instigated his works of literature. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger is a book that encompasses that principle. This comes from the idea that the book can be passed down from generation to generation because of its high relatability, and because of that it