Intersting Catcher in the Rye stuff

I was Googling and I found some interesting Web Sites for Catcher in the Rye.

http://www.geocities.com/exploring_citr/ (this one is pretty cool. It has newspaper adds for some of the private schools mentioned in the book from 1948, and comparisons on the book and current tv shows.)

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger1.htm (this one gives praises and criticisms about the book)

http://www.davidicke.net/tellthetruth/reststory/fbirye.html (this one discusses how the book motivated the killings/suicides we were talking about in class as part of an FBI conspiracy. It's pretty funny.)

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

Catcher in the Rye

This was my first time reading this book. I suppose what I found the most interesting was that I would be reading along and feel rather connected with Holden, and then I would turn the page and think "What a jerk". Then I would find myself liking him again. It was quite easy to get engrossed in the story. I could almost hear his voice telling it. The writing style lent a definate edge to the easy communication. I really enjoyed this book. I know this is a short posting, but I am rather short on time right now, so I may come back and continue this discussion later.

Fairy Tale Commentary

The fairy tale displacement that I chose to discuss on my website is "Evil in the Mountains" by Kelby Fisher. It is actually more of a regular fairy tale, but I chose it because of how much of it reminded me of Brothers Grimm stories. Throughout the entire story I was struck by how likely it would be that if the Brothers Grimm were alive today, it would be something that they might write.
The main connection I see in Kelby's fairy tale is to The Juniper Tree. In his story a boy gets killed by a demonic young girl as a sacrifice to ravens that come and eat his body. In the end, this boy's ghost comes back and kills the demonic girl before she sacrifices another person. The girl is impaled on a tree and then disappears. The boy then walks out of the woods and returns home without an explanation of what happened to him.
The reason this reminds me of the Juniper Tree is the boy getting eaten and then his ghost coming back to exact revenge. I think this story was mainly created without another story in mind, but you can still see the influence of other stories in it.