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Mark Philips revisits Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. This novel results in inspiring him to live his life by its teachings, starting off the same age as the protagonist and ending roughly thirty years of age in the same mind track addressing both J.D. Salinger's novel and Holden to life. Mark Philips ends with a deep passion towards the book and its character Holden Caulfield.
Mark views Holden as a hero, a person who understands the universe and argues society's faults. He states "… a reader of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye learn immediately that its narrator is at war with "crap", seek truth and speaks Americanese that's vibrant with sincerity." Making direct comparisons through events, Mark relates his life to Holden's, such as his time as an "alienated freshman" in college and the football games he failed to attend because of the way the student body was supposed to behave. He proves that Holden is not insane, but a regular teenager......

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