J.D. Salinger, the Catcher in the Rye
By FithrotulIzzah
Jerome David (J.D.) who was called
Sonny in his childhood was born on January 1st 1919, in New York. He was the
second and last child of Scotch-Irish mother named Miriam Jillich Salinger and
a Jewish father named Sol Salinger. He has one sibling who a sister is named
Doris.
J.D Salinger was living at 1133 Park Avenue. He
was enrolled in Manhattan’s exclusive McBurney School for ninth and tenth
grades. However, he was failing out of McBurney. Then, Salinger’s parents sent
him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. In this school, He
was an activist. He participated in the Glee Club, Aviation Club, French Club,
and the Non-Commissioned Officers Club.His best recorded IQ was far from a
genius level. Finally, He graduated in 1936.
After being graduated from a
secondary school, Salinger entered the New York University in 1936.
Unfortunately, Salinger was dropped out of New York University in the spring of
his freshman year. Then, his father advised him to move to Vienna, Austria, to
study the meatpacking business. Then, Salinger enrolled in a writing course at
Columbia University. He was professionally taught by Whit Burnett, the editor
of Story magazine. Burnett encouraged
the young writer’s career, and became a friend and also mentor for Salinger.
Salinger then published his piece of fiction, “The Young Folks,” in Story magazine. Greatly, Burnett championed Salinger’s
writing continued who would publish other early Salinger pieces in Story. However, he got several rejections. This did not
make him gave up. The New Yorker finally
accepted one of Salinger’s stories. “Slight Rebellion Off Madison,” which was
the first Salinger story to feature Holden Caulfield. The story was pending to
be published because of Pearl Harbor which was also published five years later.
In 1942, Salinger was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he had a distinguished military career as a Counter-Intelligence Agent assigned to the 4th Division. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge and, later, entered Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau. He also forged a strong friendship with war correspondent Ernest Hemingway. The nice thing was, Salinger continued his writing career during the war. He was carting his typewriter around in his Jeep. His experiences in the war left a very deep impression on him and proved to be the trauma both of his life and career. His writing was changed forever. After the war, Salinger checked himself into a mental hospital. Sadly to say, He was treated for “combat fatigue” which was post-traumatic stress syndrome.
However, J.D Salinger life was not till that way. He got married with a German woman named Sylvia Welter. They lived together only eight months, and the marriage officially ended up when Salinger filed for an annulment.
Salinger was a
great person, he was still writing some literary works. He sent all of his
works to The New Yorker. After being rejected,The New
Yorker thenpublished his short story titled “A Perfect Day for
Bananafish,”Actually; this isthe first to feature a character from the
fictional Glass family. His story did make a trending topic sensation. Salinger
signed a contract with the magazine. He was happy since The New York Magazine
was promising to let them have first opportunity at publishing any of his
future stories.
'The Catcher In the Rye'
In 1946, Salinger returned to New York. At that
famous place, he decided to set about resuming his life as a professional
writer. His professionally soon made his work published in his favourite
magazine, The New Yorker. He did not stop until this. He also continued to
create his literary work on novel. Finally, on July 16, 1951, his famous and
influencing novel titled The Catcher in the Rye was published by Little, Brown
and Company.
Actually, the novel's
plot of Salinger is quite simple. It is all about detailing 16-year-old
Holden's experiences in New York City following his expulsion and departure
from an elite college preparatory school. How he expelled from his current
school, how he had also expelled from other three previous schools.Holden,the first-person
narrator, his testimonial voice made the book more notable for the people.
Along the way Holden Caulfield
has become as established in the American psyche as much as any fictional
character. John Lennon was murdered by assassin Mark David Chapman in New York
City. After killing Lennon, Chapman sat down and started to read The Catcher in
the Rye. Chapman was the first of several of assassins who quoted The Catcher
in the Rye as inspiration for shootings and murders of public figures including
President Ronald Reagan and actress Rebecca Schaeffer.Later, the book explained
that reason for the shooting which could be found in the book's pages.
Not surprisingly,
Catcher did help Salinger to a level of unrivalled literary fame. He was a
young writer and had fiercely boasted in college about his talents. The success
that he had seemingly craved early in life became something that he ran away
from once it came.
The Catcher in The
Rye then became an unusually brilliant first novel. This book was so
controversial. Catcher used monotonous language and told about “immorality and
perversion" of Holden. In the story, Holden uses slurs and freely
discusses about casual sex and moreover prostitution. In 1953, Salinger was
interviewed by a high school newspaper. At that time, he openly admitted that
the novel was "sort of" autobiographical. He explained, "My
boyhood was very much the same as that of the boy in the book ... it was a
great relief telling people about it."His explanation made this book
became more controversial.
However, The Catcher
In The Rye novel was a very popular success. Only in two months of its
publication, this novel had been printed eight times. The greatness is not
until this, this novel listed as the bestseller one for 30 weeks. The Catcher
in the Rye also became an integral part of academic literature curriculum. The
book has sold more than 120 million copies worldwide to nowadays. The Catcher
also inspired the early careers of writers in The New Yorker such as Phillip
Roth, John Updike and Harold Brodkey.
In the wake of its 1950s
success, Salinger received and rejectednumerous offers to adapt The Catcher in
the Rye into a film, including one from Samuel Goldwyn.Catcher’s publication made
the filmmakers Billy Wilder, Harvey Weinstein, and Steven Spielberg seeking to
secure the rights.
By the late 1950s,
according to Ian Hamilton, Catcher had become the book adolescents had to
buy.This book has been compared to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn. However, newspapers began publishing articles about the "Catcher
Cult", and the novel was banned in several countries as well as some U.S.
schools. This was so because of its subject matter and what Catholic World
reviewer Riley Hughes called an "excessive use of amateur swearing and
coarse language". Actually,there are 237 appearances of the word
"goddam" in the novel, 58 of "bastard", 31 of
"Chrissake" and six of "fuck".
In 1970, several high
school teachers in U.S. who assigned the book were fired or forced to resign. A
1979 study of censorship noted that The Catcher in the Rye "had the
dubious distinction of being at once the most frequently censored book across
the nation and the second-most frequently taught novel in public high
schools".
On February 17th1955,
Salinger married Claire Douglas, a student at Radcliffe College which was the
sister school of all-male Harvard. As a wedding present, he presented her with
a copy of a story about the character Franny Glass, who was partially inspired
by his new wife. Then the couple’s daughter Margaret is born. Family and
friends call her Peggy. After a daughter, a son, Matthew Salinger was born. In
the years ahead, he would enjoy a lifelong friendship with his father and
fiercely protected his privacy.
On January 27, 2010,
at the age of 91, J.D. Salinger passed away in New Hampshire. The world lost
one of its most talented, and reclusive voices. Then, the Salinger family
released a final statement from Salinger that read: I am in this world but not
of it. This was the explicit fulfilment of central idea of the fourth and final
stage of his Vedantic beliefs: renunciation of the world.
In 2013, the new
light is shed on Salinger’s life and work. Shane Salerno and David Shields
published a biography of the famed writer entitled Salinger and became a New
York Times bestseller. One of its many revelations is that there are at least
five unpublished works by Salinger that are scheduled to be released between
2015 and 2020. Not only this, Salerno also created a film documentary on
Salinger. This documentary film debuted around the same time as his book with Shields.
The Weinstein Company theatrically released and subsequently appeared as the
200th episode of the Academy- and Emmy-winning PBS series American Masters on
January 21, 2014.
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