• 250,000 sold every year

• 65- 120 million sold

Jerome David Salinger

• Born 1-1-1919

• Died 1-27-2010

• Second child

• Youngest child

“Sonny”

• Intelligent• Not a good student

Flunked out of

McBurney School in

NYC• Sent to Valley Forge

Military Academy in

Wayne PA

One year at NY University

After graduation, he was sent to Europe to learn another language and study the import business.

Returned to NY; took night classes at Columbia University

Professor Whit Burnett

• Teacher

• Editor of Story magazine

• Encouraged Salinger to publish

• Published in Story magazine

• Drafted into Army• 1942-44

• Sergeant

• Landed at Utah Beach, 1st wave

• Fought Battle of the Bulge

• Hospitalized for “Nervous breakdown”

• Met and married Sylvia, a German, the marriage lasted 8 months

• Continued to write chapters for a novel whose protagonist was Holden Caulfield

• Finished novel 1950

Catcher published July 16,1951

• New Yorker “unusually brilliant,” “funny,” “meaningful”

• Some critics found it immoral

• Stayed on best seller list for 7 months

1953

• Moved to a secluded 90 acre lot in Cornish, New Hampshire

• Cut himself off from the public

• Limited writing output

1955 Married

• Claire Douglas• Married her a couple

of months before her high school graduation

• Had 2 children: Margaret 1955

Matt1960

“Catcher in the Rye” Reading ChecksLet’s get serious about reading!

And really read…READING CHECKS

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Chapter 1 AUDIO

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StOuFIBpJgE

Catcher Reading Check CH 1-4:Class 1

• Pretend you are Stradlater. Describe how you view yourself. Describe how you view Ackley and Holden. Describe the girl you are going on a date with and how you feel about her. Describe why Holden is acting weird.

* USE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE

Catcher Reading Check CH 1-4:Class 2

• Pretend you are Ackley, describe yourself. Describe how you view Holden. Describe how you feel about Stradlater. Describe what you do on a typical evening in on the weekends.

• *USE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE

Catcher Reading Check CH 8-12:Class 1

• Pretend you are Mrs. Marrow. Describe how you view Holden when you meet him. Do you believe everything he tells you? Does anything sound fishy? Describe how you view your son and how you feel about your son after speaking with Holden.

• * USE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE

Catcher Reading Check CH 8-12:Class 2

• Pretend you are Bernice. Describe how you view Holden when you meet him. Do any of his actions throw you off? Does anything sound fishy? What do your friends say about him once you leave the bar?

• * USE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE

• Pretend you are Sally. Describe in detail, from your perspective, the date you had with Holden. When did he call you? Why was he acting strange? How is he acting lonely or isolated?

• Pretend you are Phoebe. Describe in deatil your interaction with Holden when he gets home. How is he acting lonely or isolated? What does he bring you? How does he describe the museum/how does that connect to you?