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'The Catcher in the Rye'. When I chose this book to read, I didn't even know what's the meaning of the title. I just chose it because the cover looked very simple. And this book made me interesting even from the first paragraph, because of swearing words. I realized that this book is different as other books, those books that written by formal story shape. And I thought that the main character must be struggling against something from when he swears about his life. Basically the story is about a guy, Holden. He was kicked out from college, because he flunked from many subjects, but after he kicked out, he didn't even know what to do then. He decided to not go back to home, because he couldn’t face his parents, who expect a lot to Holden. He decided to stay other places and meet with other friends before he go back to home, and he learned a lot of things while he was all alone. And at last, he went back home and the story ends. One of the thing that he learned from he’s sister was in this quote.

�"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all."�( The Catcher In The Rye, pg.173)


During I read this book, I felt like i was reading a 'diary', which is not normal as other books. First, the writer used 'I' instead of 'He', so that readers include me, can feel more affection and sympathy for Holden. Holden wasn’t sad about the fact that he was kicked out from school. From here, we can see that he is not interested in studying at all, but also he didn’t know what should to do from then. He was just too lazy to do something, and start something. I could understand how he feels, because from one day, I started to be lazy and wanted to give up studying and things. I felt tired of repeat of same days, and that’s why I was being lazy. Probably Holden felt same way as me, and I felt sympathy for him.

I searched what kind of this book was, and realize that this book was translated into almost all of the world's major languages. We can see that this book is one of the world’s famous and popular book. But to tell the truth, I didn’t really like this book. The story was only about what did Holden do for about one week. No increasing development and no climaxes, which made me bored. But the vocabularies in this book weren’t that hard, which was really good thing for ESL students. So I could read without dictionary, and it brought me reducing time of reading and also I could continue reading once I start reading. I think it’s because the main character in here writing about himself, that means there’s a lot of thinking and conversations going on in the story, which doesn’t necessary to have hard words.