The main way Holden wants to be a protector is to keep children from growing up and becoming phony and corrupt as he feels most adults become. Some would believe that Holden has become obsessed with his sister even if he just wants to protect her. Holden does not want her to change. Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible but it's too bad anyway. Anyway, I kept thinking about all that while I walked.

Holden's sister, Phoebe, is his connection to children. Holden believes all children are like her and that they are much more superior than adults. When an adult does something that is som

Holden would like to keep children as innocent as he can, he believes that he has already lost his innocence and eventually gives up his own to help the other children. Holden would go through his time in New York not focusing on anything specific. He just went there to have fun and pass the time. After his "catching" dream he goes through various phases where he begins to change, and his innocence begins to be stripped so that he is more able to assist those he must catch. He seems to believe that he does not have any innocence during his journey, but the thing is he is still much like a child he is in some small ways. This really interests him because that is what he wanted to be like. Holden does not realize that he still has some of his innocence until he has already begun to shed his innocence. Warren French explains:

This is when Holden begins to fall further from what is actually happening around him. It would be hard for the reader to distinguish whether or not Holden has finally given up what he has to do to become this "catcher in the rye", or if he simply does not care because of his feelings of unimportance in his own life. These things together or separate make Holden finally decide what he is going to do. Before his final transformation can occur, he has to go through a scenario that triggers a new outlook on getting older. He begins to walk across New York and does not stop until he is "way up in the sixties" (178) . Holden then begins to call out to his dead brother Allie to help him not disappear. He continues to do this scenario until it ultimately inspires his innocent conclusion:

Holden's hatred for this kind of defacing is a sign of his lack of innocence. It also shows that he also has some maturity in him as well. The graffiti bothers him throughout the story and always seems to come back to haunt him. Holden has a hate for the World that he would associate to this phrase. He assumes that his whole adult world would have this word as part of their society and that they all think that this sort of thing is right. The reader may not get this idea out of the way he thinks of this, but it is quite apparent that this could be true. If he really did believe that, then he would want to keep children away from it because of the innocence they would lose. The real reason that the reader may notice about his cleaning of the graffiti is that he himself may simply not understand this because he has not yet had this experience truly as an adult would so he combines this with the adult world to form an opinion that this word is crude. Even though it is

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)