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J. D. Salinger Impact On Society

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J.D Salinger was a successful writer. But Most importantly, his writing made huge impacts.As seen in his famous work The Catcher in the Rye, which had set new literature of the post world war. Salinger was born on January,1, 1919 in New York City. He was one of the youngest children of two, Which born to Sol Salinger.As a kid, he wasn't the brightest when coming to school. He flunked from Mcburney. After flunking Mcburney Salinger was immediately sent to a Military Academy in Pennsylvania. After graduating from the Military Academy, he had decided to go back to his hometown to attend NYU for a year before going to Europe. When coming back, he made a decision to attend college once again, but at Ursinus College.He met a professor named Burnett. …show more content…

He was influenced to write about Catcher in The Rye because he was impacted when stationed for 3 months in a little town called Devon.The sights and Sounds of Devon influenced him to write. He started to create the main character Holden Caulfield; as he began to create Holden he started to embed his trauma and his wartime experience on Holden.Another reason that Salinger started to write Catcher in The Rye was to point out that in his era the 50s was the time when things were going wrong.He wanted to open people's eyes;help them realize that there was a need to change. Also he wanted to portray that he did not need any authority figure to tell him what to do, he portrayed them by Teachers,Parents Police …show more content…

Everyone knew him as a wise male who always spoke the truth ,he was never a hypocrite.Salinger wrote more than 30 short stories and as well as many “Novellas”.The Modern Library and some of salinger's readers named his books as one of the best 100 novels during the 20th century. His book Catcher in the rye started to lose popularity and his fame was at risk, but not until his book nine stories had been published, which gave him “Critical Attention”.Throughout his life span Salinger always received critical attention. He received many attention and critics because of his use in his words in his literature. Many people said he used too many “Damm’s” or as well as many profane language.That never stopped him as a matter a fact before passing away salinger told critics that he never gave a “Damn’” about what people had to say about him. As a matter a

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