Final Essay

He is stuck on the bridge between being an adult and a squirt and does not know here he wants to go. He doesnt know what he wants to do or be in the future. throughout the book, bearer makes many a(prenominal) references to the ducks that he saw a few times in cardinal Park. He says, The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I retrieve does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves- go south or something? (Slinger 91 This could be a symbol for holder and his life. holder is wondering where the ducks testament go, very much the homogeneous he is wondering where he himself will go.Holder wonders if he will defy to ram up and go nowhere on his own, or if someone will come along and divine service him out before things get alike difficult. Holder is thinking close where the ducks will go when it gets cold and big(a) for them to survive. He is also thinking about where he will go when life gets even more difficult and ha rder for him to survive on his own. Holder is also scared for the future of children. He has experienced firsthand what it is like to be extremely stressed and forced to grow up quickly. He does not like growing up and he just wants to be a child forever.Holder wants to save children from f alling into the world of adulthood. He says, Navy, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some bet in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and zeros around nobody big, mean except me. And Im standing on the edge of some weirdy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff I mean if theyre running and they dont look where theyre press release I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. Thats all I do all day. Id just be the catcher in the rye and all. Know its crazy, but thats the only thing Id really like to be.This shows that Holder actually is caring for the children in the world and he wants to help them keep the ir innocence in any way that he can. Throughout the Story, Holder mentions his little brother allelomorph. allelomorph passed away when they were little of cancer. Holder feels guilty and upset over Allies death and really misses him. Allele was one of the few people who Holder actually loved and cared about. Allele had an old baseball mitt with poems written all over it that he would read while standing in the field. While talking about Allies old baseball mitt that Holder kept, he says Youd have liked him.He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were ever writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allele in their class. And they werent just shooting the crap. They really meant it. yet it wasnt just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. God, he was a nice kid, though . He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner dishearten that he just about fell off his chair.