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Died january this year (2010).
● Zen budism at the latter part of his
life
● Accusing everyone/everything of
being “phoney” indicates his search for sincerity.
● Adolescent in search of his place in
the world, it is about the path people have to go down to prove they have a
voice in the world and a personal world view.
● In the tradition of Mark Twain’s =
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer
but Holder’s more disillusioned
● He was 32 when he wrote the book but
he put, in a convincing way, the uncertainties about the future, the kind of
worries that goes on on our heads when we are adolescents. Language wise
penetrates in the particular way young people expressed themselves . Lively
slang.
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Funny, touching/ monologue
Trivia
→ Who wrote
Holden Callfield? (Kerplunk 1992) Green day
→ In “Conspiracy Theory”, Mel Gibson buys all copies
of The Catcher in the Rye he can find.
