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  • Essay / The color red in Salinger's The Catcher

    As Socrates, a famous Greek philosopher, once said, "the unexamined life is not worth living." He believes people should read between the lines and, in the case of books, delve deeper into what the author is trying to say using symbols and images. To someone who doesn't review the book, The Catcher in the Rye, it may seem like it's about a "messed up" teenager who wanders around town and doesn't care about life. But when we explore a range of ______, we discover that this book has common themes like innocence, change, growth and also death. We discover him in various _____ of the novel, such as in The Museum of Natural History, his red hunting hat and the ducks in the Central Park lagoon. The main character, Holden Caulfield, has always loved the museum. This reassured him...