Everyone lies. Everyone adores attention and crave the need for great impressions. In some point of our life, we eventually tend to think twice on situations and assume when someone is acting phony. Normally, children leading into their teenage years tend get into this phase. People act phony because they wish to fit in, they seek attention, or their intention is to impress certain people. Sixteen-year-old, Holden Caulfield, describes majority of people in the novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, phony.
During my High School years, although I was tremendously social, I decided to join in on home studies to keep distance from the students. Although I didn’t consider literally everyone phonies, I consider majority and it’s similar to as Holden states, “One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That’ all” (Pg. 19). Therefore, I do see a similar gap with today’s social media because us people from this generation, we tend to say untruthful things to people in order to get the attention we crave for. However, it is simple nowadays to discover someone in a lie because it is getting harder to do
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Teenage kids tend to give false information about how sexually active they are, even though they are not at all. In my generation, males in all grades would not be truthful about the females they were involved with. In all of society, if a teenage boy gets sexually active with a teenage girl, he is considered to be “cool”. As Holden states about his next-door roommate, “All he did was keep talking in this very monotonous voice about some babe he was supposed to have had sexual intercourse with the summer before. He’d already told me about it a hundred times. Every time he told it, it was different. It was all a lot of crap, naturally (Pg. 49). Teenage boys in this society speak on the same