American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1518 short lesson, about 20 seconds
J. D. Salinger and *The Catcher in the Rye*
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The idea
The nineteen fifty-one novel follows a sensitive sixteen-year-old, Holden Caulfield, who leaves his elite boarding school for the adult world and is disillusioned by its materialism and phoniness. The witness calls Salinger a harbinger of the dropping out that defined the following decade.
In practice
A boy leaves school and finds phoniness.
Where people slip
The book anticipates the nineteen sixties.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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