The Catcher in the Rey

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Das Dokument beschreibt das Leben des Autors Jerome David Salinger und sein bekanntestes Werk „The Catcher in the Rye“. Es wird auf seine Beziehung zu seinem jüdischen Vater und katholischen Mutter sowie dessen Einfluss auf seine Persönlichkeit und Schriftstellerei eingegangen. Des Weiteren wird Salinger als widersprüchliche Person beschrieben. Das Buch „The Catcher in the Rye“ wird als Beispiel für den Aufstieg der Teenager-Rebellion beschrieben und der Hauptcharakter Holden Caulfield wird vorgestellt. Seine Probleme und Gedanken werden beschrieben und seine Persönlichkeit als widersprüchlich wie die des Autors Salinger beschrieben, der ebenfalls ein stilles Leben isoliert von der Gesellschaft führte. Der Inhalt des Buches wird zusammengefasst und es wird auf die verschiedenen Charaktere, insbesondere Holden Caulfield und seine Widersprüche, eingegangen. Insgesamt gibt das Dokument ein umfassendes Bild von Salinger und seiner bekanntesten Arbeit.
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The Catcher in the Rye Jerome David Salinger was born in New York 1919. His father, Sol, was a jew who was in the meat and cheese business. His relationship to his father was distant and he didn´t even bother to attend his funeral. His mother, of whom he was very fond, was Irish Catholic. Being half jewish was a source of enormous conflict for Salinger. The cold relationship to his father, his conflict being half jewish and especially his traumatic experiences in World War II were negative aspects of his life which shaped his personality and his fiction. Salinger is a man of contradiction. He has rigid rules of conduct, but he frequently finds reason to break. For example: With his Buddhist beliefs, he scorned wordly desire, but he was vain about the attention his writing received and he pursued young girls for sex. Salinger enjoyed Valley Forge Military School but portrayed it as a hell hole in his novel Salinger was fond of military but later he had an aversion to It. He calls himself a vegetarian, but sometimes he also eats meat. And so on Salinger is an very odd person. He doesn´t want his picture on the cover of his books. Although he is one of the most famous writers of th 20th century, he lives isolated from society. He doesn´t want any contact to reporters. He published his last book in 1963 Raise High the Roof Beam . 1974 J.D. Salinger broke a public silence of more than 20 years. Speaking by telephone he tells a New York Times correspondant that he loves to write, ...
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