This is the poem by Robert Burns:
Crossing the rye, poor body
Crossing the rye
He flew the valance
Crossing the rye
If an object hits a body
Crossing through the rye
If a body kiss a body
Do you have a body to mourn?
If an object hits a body
crossing the valley
If a body kiss body
Does the world know?
The Jenny is a sweet little body
Jenny almost never thirsty
And he blows his kilt
When rye crosses ...
"Academic education will give you some more. If you continue with perseverance, after a while start to give you an idea of the extent of your intelligence. That can reach and what can not cover gradually begin to discern what kind of thinking is fit more comfortably in your mind. And it will save time because they will try to adopt ideas that you will not, or do not agree to your intelligence.'ll know exactly what your measurements intellectuals and clothe your mind accordingly. "
(Text of The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger)
Perhaps none of us wanted to leave that final stage of adolescence that uproar, it was still attractive because of its lack of references and solutions in a random game mazes in search of ephemeral happiness and emotional upheavals. What the status of comfortable surroundings where everything is perceived as attainable dream.
Holden Caulfield but decides not to join in subsequent avatars and try to flee, to prolong, as he suspects then not happen, yes! At the time that the responsibility for all acts and is not dependent upon his father's approach, with its rewards and punishments. The resentment towards humans which are installed on your personality, you are obliged to denounce the hypocrisy that surrounds everything, knowing that his command of language is poor and limited spring.
The importance acquired this novel is due to the time it was published, 1951 and its plain, colloquial language when shamelessly say issues such as alcohol, drugs, sex or prostitution in an American company established in Puritanism. In addition to other post mythomania, such as the bedside book of John Lennon's murderer.
Now we may find it almost ridiculous that suspicion, constant dialogues used to swear in all media and in everyday talk.
Holden, loves the innocence of his younger sister Phoebe appearing as the protector of esacualidad, that the already extinct. He does not like his older brother D.B. is a screenwriter in Hollywood, what makes him hate the movies, but declares that enjoy reading the stories and tales of his brother.
The shelter that chooses to withdraw from this flight, which managed to exhaust seems to be a hospital where asepsis could make getting the case to continue his adult life. Being the son of good family, does not have any hate material deprivation makes her world.
The novel is still today a literary reference, if we look for a description of the search for the timeless values at that stage and distant for some of us.
JD Salinger, was born in Manhattan, New York (United States) on 1 January 1919. Lackluster student, since his adolescence he began to write stories. His works are characterized by the expression of a feeling of hopelessness and pessimism vital. After writing this The Catcher in the Rye published as nine other stories (1953), Franny Zooey (1961), Seymour (1963) and Hapsworth 16, 1924 (1977 ).
His daughter, Margaret Salinger was a biography under the title "guardian of dreams. And a particular version of the film director Gus Van Sant took some life into a movie in the movie Finding Forrester.