Friday, March 14, 2008

Third Assignment

I would say that Dr. Thomas Forester isn't completely wrong, yet not completely right.
The Catcher In The Rye is about teenage angst, and yes, this has been in many other books I'm sure but it's the way this book is written that makes it so much better. The plot of the book may not be like any other one, but I've read other books where the teenager feels like he is different or how weird they are or how they have changed during the years. So I guess Forester is right, but what matters is how the book is written and how interesting the characters are made.

Although I have read stories like this before, this book just really had no boundaries. The way it is written and how the protagonist acts, speaks and thinks is just like a real person. He curses, he is a liar, hypocritical, and the author wants you to know and feel that, and you do.

Books will always just keep getting better and better. I'm sure someone will make the standards of writing novels even higher and the stories will become even more personal. A new story that hasn't been heard can probably be written but right now, we love the stories that have been written, even if there is some similar ones, because every author will makes every character different.

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