Non fiction Non Narrative Salinger

Reading this article really helped me connect to Salinger and understand what this book is about. In a sense, it really is like a diary of his life as a teen. He goes through a lot of what Holden does and now I can see where he is coming from. They both had a rough time in school and they both flunked out and ran away and such. The big thing though was that they were both good writers. I think that it is a really good idea how Salinger writes. It almost allows you to enter into Salinger's world through the eyes of someone else:)

Connecting to Holden

I know that it might seem like im copycating... but my topic is about death at a young age too. Both of my grandmas died a year apart. I was in 3rd grade when my grandma Jagodzinski died and 4th when my grandma Stoetzel died. They were my only living grandparents because the rest of them died before i was even 1. It was super hard with them being that close and I had to watch both of them suffer so much through it. I just wanted to do anything i could to make the pain go away but i couldnt. It was hard with my grandma j. I couldnt even go in the room that her body was in. I was fine as long as i wasnt in that room. With my grandma s though, it was a totally different story. She had been my best friend. The one i called when i had a bad day or just needed someone to cheer me up. I was a mess at the funeral home and i was physically gettin sick i was so upset. i didnt sleep for months after it and its still hard to deal with now. theres times where i just cry out of no where because of it.

Salinger does a good job of showing that yes death is sad and scary but you can still see a positive in it and thats always a good thing. Theyre always there as long as you think about them and remember them. This also helped 4 months ago when zoey's grandma died. She had lung cancer and I had know how zoey was feeling because thats basically what my grandma s died of. It really helped both of us through it because i was close to her and her entire family so it really affected me too. I was there when she told me that nannie had cancer and i was there when she was in the hospital and also at her aunt and uncles house the day that she died. i went to the visitation and gave her a hug for as long as she needed when i got through the line. i was almost late for the bus for my volleyball game for it. its really insane now that i think about it how much the loss of one person can affect so many other people in so many ways. take the michael jackson dealth. people went crazy over it. I just like how salinger wrote about how Holden remember his brother and how he was like and such. it just made you connect to him and it let you know how his brother was. it makes you wonder if salinger went through something like that when he was younger...:)

JD Salinger's Legacy

I think that the possiblity of new unpublished manuiscrips that JD Salinger wrote would really impact the American literary society. His one and only novel that was published really affected peoples writing and what students are learning in schools. That novel was writted awhile ago and students are still learing about it n0w. It also changed how writers wrote back then. He used bad language and this offended a lot of people. But after he wrote The Catcher and the Rye, writers stepped out of the box and wrote out of the norm so that writers would totally change how they wrote. I think that it would be pretty cool to see how if they were to publish these new ones, how it would change how writers write. :)