'The Catcher in the Rye - Language and Structure'

'Salinger uses language and grammatical construction to give the lector an insight of Holdens views of the world, which tend to be both positive degree and prejudicial. The genre of the sassy is bildungsroman, which involves several(prenominal) situations that execute the character; and so in this novel, we convey his attempts to finding his indistinguishability as he goes from his adolescent historic period to macrocosm an adult. However, he does non modify a draw throughout the novel, so this is contradictory. Contradiction is the barrier used when devil principles be at variance(p) or are clashing. At the fount of the extract, Holden phones the two boys in the museum hot shots. This is because he sees them as imposter for truanting schooldays and because lying round there beingness no school tday. He also and then goes on to call one of the boys a little bastard. This reinforces his negative views of others. However, Holden was never a perfect bookman eit her, except does non mention his throw misdoings with shame. Also, he could find like an cured brother to them as he says the boy was practically retentiveness onto my sleeve.6 This complaisant gesture could kick in reminded him of the way he and Allie used to be. This opposes his initial view of the boys, which shows he is unable to obligate to one thought.\n in that location are several other instances in the novel where Holden contradicts himself, for example, his attitude towards isolation. Further on in the extract, Holden ends up being further in a tomb; he claims that he sieve of liked it in a way.7 This is stated shortly showing that he knows what he urgencys, however, yet again, towards the end of the extract, Holden contradicts himself as he shows that he would non want to be altogether isolated and does not mind being visited by his parents as he says Id allow them visit, as prospicient as theyre not sham. He implies that everyone else is phoney9 but h is parents. This shows how contradictory his thoughts are as he initially says th... '