Catcher In The Rye -- JD Salinger
This is a carefully crafted text. Salinger adopts the persona, language and speech patterns of a west coast American teenager. Some aspects of the text create the impression that the speech is spontaneous and disorganized, Holden Caulfield repeats himself, he gets side tracked about his brother and divulging “pretty personal stuff” about his parents, and he doubles back on himself, about his brother in Hollywood, mentioning it halfway through the text, “D.B … my brother. He’s in Hollywood” and then again at the end, “now he’s out in Hollywood, being a prostitute”. Of course him brother is not actually a prostitute he is a writer, writing screen plays, but Holden chooses to see it as working for the establishment and “prostituting” his words. This piece is coherent, and Holden’s train of thought is easily seen, but it does not have the fluidity that most pieces of text have, but the writer has specifically crafted it to be like this. It sounds as if Holden is speaking to the reader. This is because of the very effective use of the first person narration style. Holden
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Approximate Word count = 725
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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