Holden in Catcher in the Rye

growth up poses challenges to most flock by leaving the whiteness of childhood, to face the maturity of go about the adulthood. The character Holden Caul electron orbit from, The Catcher in The Rye, by J.D Salinger, discoers that he wants to hold dear kids, hardly realizes he involve to grow up. He wants to nourish kids from the vulgar introduction. However, he is assay because he would prefer to inhabit innocent, rather than dealing with phoniness. He learns that all kids take to mature.\nHolden has the need to protect kids from losing their naturalness, because he thinks that the earthly concern he lives in is fill up with phonies. He states, I unploughed picturing all these small kids playing slightly biz in this big field of rye. Thousands of little kids and nobodys around-except me. Im stand on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I contribute to do, I have to witch everybody if they start to go over the cliff, (Pg. 173). He also mentions that it is not only kids who he wants to protect, but also Jane Gallagher. Holdens kindred with her is innocent, which shows his concern. She is the symbolism of purity. Holden wants to protect her from Stradlater, preventing them from chance(a) around. As a result, Holdens want to protect innocence proves how much he wants to follow innocence, even though he has to mature.\nNot only does he have to mature, but he also struggles with maturity as well. He wishes that he could shot in with the adult world by showing that he is mature. For instance, when Holden goes to the Lavender Room in chapter 10, he pretends to be of legal age by gild a scotch and soda. Of course, he gets caught in the act, and ends up ordinance just a soda. Likewise, in chapter 14, after relieving Holden of his funds, Maurice physically attacks him. because he smacked meal I felt was this terrific lagger in my stomach, (Pg. 103). In essence, he shows Holden what sort of person he does not want to be. in spite of Maurices a ction, he represents a v...