In New Zealand 33% of the heaviest alcohol drinkers are with in the age of 21 and in the book "The Catcher In The Rye" Holden is drinking at a age of 17 which is below the drinking age which is typical of a teenage in New Zealand. Today in schools they bring coke bottles and put alcohol in it, they drink alcohol in the toilets at schools and usually they get into

pubs and nightclubs with their fake ids. As u can see the drinking age of alcohol compares to Holden and New Zealand teenagers is basically the first step they take, the second step is smoking.

From the very first page of the novel, Holden begins to refer to his parents as distance, he generalizes his father and mother frequently through out the novel, like in the first page he says " My parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them, They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father, (pg. 1)". When Holden describes his mum, he makes his mum sound insincere, like when Holden is hiding in the closet of D.B's room as his mum walks in to tuck in Phoebe. "Marvelous, my mother said, but u could tell she didn't mean it, she doesn't enjoy herself much when she goes out (pg. 177-178)". Like Holden many teenagers in New Zealand have family problems, they don't communicate with their parents much and when the t

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