and personal struggles. Knowles attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive New

Hampshire prep school, for two summer sessions in 1943 and 1944. This book vaguely

outlines his experiences at Exeter with himself as the main character but under the name

of Gene Forrester. Knowles' novel tells the story of a young man's struggle to escape from

himself and his world, to achieve a special and separate peace. Similar to A Separate

Peace, "The Catcher in the Rye" is also a story of an emotionally disturbed young teenage

boy, named Holden Caulfield. Holden is telling this story in first person, although the

whole thing is all one big flashback. The story is one of a young Boy trying to grow up in

an Adult world, and trying to show that he is an Adult. As Holden is learning, there are

many depressing things in the world. Holden, being the Idealist that he is, searches to find

everything that needs to be changed, but never gives an alternative to the situation or

thing. These novels can relate to each other through their themes which are, lack of

between childhood and adulthood. They start to accept responsibilities for their actions,

to believe him to be; and as Gene finds out, what is on the surface sometimes does not

conflicted, after Finny has tried so hard to avoid implicating his friend despite his anger

people and adults. Holden wants to preserve the innocence of children because he sees

Holden slowly matures throughout the novel, finally growing up in the park at the

knows this and has learned that the recognition of these concepts is different in young

that traumatizes Leper, being suddenly thrown into the world of adulthood. Throughout

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Approximate Word count = 782
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)