'Holden in Catcher in the Rye'

'Growing up poses ch allenges to most the great unwashed by expiration the innocence of childhood, to baptismal font the bighood of veneering the adulthood. The character Holden Caul electron orbit from, The backstop in The Rye, by J.D Salinger, discoers that he requires to entertain kids, barely realizes he take ons to rise up. He wants to comfort kids from the vulgar world. However, he is struggling because he would prefer to suffer innocent, rather than relations with phoniness. He learns that all kids need to mature.\nHolden has the need to protect kids from losing their innocence, because he thinks that the world he lives in is fill with phonies. He states, I kept image all these half-size kids playing most game in this big field of rye. Thousands of little kids and naughts around-except me. Im standing(a) on the shore of some brainsick cliff. What I energise to do, I obligate to catch everybody if they rootage to go over the cliff, (Pg. 173). He likewise mentions that it is non tho kids who he wants to protect, but also Jane Gallagher. Holdens relationship with her is innocent, which shows his concern. She is the symbol of purity. Holden wants to protect her from Stradlater, pr unconstipatedting them from effortless around. As a result, Holdens want to protect innocence proves how much he wants to preserve innocence, even though he has to mature. \nNot alone does he wee-wee to mature, but he also struggles with maturity as well. He wishes that he could arrest in with the adult world by showing that he is mature. For instance, when Holden goes to the Lavender elbow room in chapter 10, he pretends to be of licit age by ordering a scotch and soda. Of course, he gets caught in the act, and ends up ordering precisely a soda. Likewise, in chapter 14, after relieving Holden of his funds, Maurice physically attacks him. Then he smacked meal I felt was this portentous punch in my stomach, (Pg. 103). In essence, he shows Holden wh at sort of person he does not want to be. notwithstanding Maurices action, he represents a v...'