The Catcher in the Rye, the Warden in the Rye About the Watch

Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The first time I learned about this book was when I was in college, there was a reading party about "The Catcher in the Rye" in the lecture hall of the library, and I felt that this book should be a book in the same style as "The Kite Runner", and the story scene should be related to the wheat field.

After nearly three years, I finally had the pleasure of reading it. After reading it, Fang Zhi is very different from what he imagined.

Two major impressions. First, from the perspective of an educator, this book describes a so-called "poor student" who has repeatedly transferred schools, skipped classes, and failed courses, and the author uses a slightly crude and delicate approach to show the inner journey of a seventeen-year-old "problematic" teenager. Children at this age begin to gradually have their own immature ideas and desire independence and equality, but parents and society still treat them as children, and ask children according to the ideas of adults, and children are unwilling to do what adults think, so there is a common "rebellion" at this time.

At this time, what we should do is trust, care and guidance, so that he can feel everyone's love for him and the immaturity of his own ideas. For adults eager to know what's really going on in children at this age, read this book and you'll find something you want to know.

The second impression is the understanding of watching. Watch what? Is it the scarecrow watching over the wheat field?

Is it Holden's playful child? Both, and no. Children at this age experience less things, and their hearts are extremely innocent and unfair.

They don't understand, why are the practices and ideas of adults different from the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith taught by teachers in books? Why are adults calling them "stupid" when they do things that they think are righteous and caring? This may be society, it is growth, adults have learned to be cautious after being sharpened, their hearts are tightly contracted, and they are also afraid that their children will suffer, so they teach them "the way to survive".

For adults, this may be normal, but for children, if they learn these things too early, it is a great irony of youth. For young people, what should be told more in their hearts is Fanghua, whether they don't ask about the West and the East, and who have the ambition of the family and the country in mind. As a young person, you should strive to protect the most innocent part of your heart, even if your heart is full of mud and obscurity, and you can sleep in the long night.

Like a knight, forge ahead.

I'm going to be a catcher in the wheat field. There was a group of children playing in a large wheat field. Tens of thousands of kids, not a single adult around, I mean - except me.

I'm on the edge of the bastard's precipice, and it's my job to keep watch there. If any of the kids came to the edge of the cliff, I caught them - I mean the kids were running wild, and they didn't know where they were going. I've got to get out of somewhere, get them caught.

That's what I do all day, I just want to be a catcher in the wheat field. (Quote from the book).

So, well.