What do You Think the Author Wrote this Story? Important Message?

   This is sort of a tough question. I mean there could be so many answers for this and probably all be correct. In my opinion I think J.D Salinger is someone who observes humankind, notices and picks out different acts of bad human behaviour he see's. I believe he wrote this book in an attempt to show people how they tend to act and think on a daily basis. Holden for an example would be of a typical person who is so brought down by the world for no reason and feels the need for constant judgment and the feeling of superiority over others. This is why thousands of people across the world say they are Holden because they recognize themselves in his behaviours and attitude. This disturbs me because it only accentuates the fact that majority of people are so judgemental, pessimistic and overall just act like everything sucks. This would be the first problem Salinger wanted to address in humankind. He wants to emphasize the amount of unhappiness and negativity in our world, when we have so much beauty around us, and so much to be thankful for.


    It's crazy if you think back to the book and analyze every single character in the book, finding that there's some kind of lesson to be learned, or some negative type of behaviour to be addressed. In example, Horowitz. People should be kind to one another and not rude and irritated when someone speaks or asks something. People constantly feel like someone's wasting our time when really it takes so little to be kind and make someone's day. Furthermore, from Sally Hayes we learn to just be who you really are and not have two different personalities. Sally is a great symbol of the amount of people in the world who act "phony".


  The list could go on and on. The book is full of meaning and messages that Salinger included to stop the reader and reflect on their actions. It goes from characters to daily struggles Holden experiences to the way people act towards one another. J. D Salinger was really trying to draw attention to bad habits and awfully negative behaviours humans demonstrate without even acknowledging or realizing they're doing it.


   Basically the bottom line is people are so consumed in their own lives they forget to be nice to each other and often times forget to look around and realize¸what the important things in life are again. The author ultimately wrote the book to get people to realize their wrongdoings and use the examples in the book as a guide to something we shouldn't do or be.