First is being forced into a school/situation that you are not interested in but people keep telling you that it's important and you should care about it but you don't. For example Holden is not at all interested in attending Pency. People tell him that it is important for to do well, like his history teacher and parents but he doesn't see the importance in doing well at Pency. Maybe because it isn't important?

This leads to another important thing to realize about teens or maybe people in general, not having anyone to relate to. This book show

Another pressure with today's youth also deals with drugs. Kids are faced with the dilemma that all their friends are using drugs and they can be caught in a moral dilemma. Catcher in the Rye doesn't deal with Holden interacting with his peers all that much, aside from saying how much he hates them. That is one of the ways this book is unrealistic; you never see Holden's peers change and then Holden's reaction to the change. Granted it would be hard to display that considering the book spans about a week but it's still an issue that teens face today.

s how important it is to have a strong base of friends to keep you from losing it. It can be really comforting to just hang out with people, not really doing anything too deep but just going to a movie, eating pizza, going to concerts, watching videos, things like that. Even challenging work can be more engaging with a strong core of friends or companions to

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