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So, where do the ducks go in winter...? “The Catcher in the Rye” is a disturbing, yet excellent story about the trials of the day-to-day life of a teenage boy. It has been incredibly written by J.D. Salinger, and it portrays the boy’s reactions to the different people and aspects of American society in the late 1940’s. ‘It is a tale that exists independent of any larger meaning or message’. Holden Caulfield is …

…sixteen-year-old boy who lacks direction, has guided us through this book in an interesting and different way. His trials and emotions are transported into our lives, and our thoughts. We find ourselves enjoying his exciting narration, to the extent that we can say that in this truly dazzling book, there are lessons to be learnt by everyone. *The theory that the self is the only reality/the only thing that can be known and verified