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"Catcher in the rye" - J.D. Sallinger (versão inglesa à venda na FNAC - Warner Editions)

Loss of innocence

One more significant theme, which may also tie in with the theme about "phoniness", is that the loss of innocence is unavoidable. Holden's idea of a "catcher in the rye" illustrates how he wishes to wipe out corruption from the world and protect children like his sister from becoming like the many "phonies" he hated, i.e., adults. This is clearly illustrated by Holden's attack on Stradlater after the date with Jane Gallagher. The fact that Jane always kept her kings in the back row during a game of checkers was significant to Holden because he wanted her to protect her virginity. However, Holden finds it impossible to maintain innocence. After seeing some vulgar graffiti on the walls in his sister Phoebe's elementary school and the museum, bastions of learning and culture, he realizes that he won't be able to erase it all and protect children from the world indefinitely.

Com esta banda sonora, para ouvir aqui.

On an ordinary day, not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard, no longer would it play
For anybody, or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
needed comfort from someone who cared,
to be,
not like you and unlike me

And then the voice just went away, from me
So that it set the wheels in motion to alter memories
You were the instrument, you were the one,
how about it, talk about it
Ya Gave that boy a gun

Took our innocence, beyond our scabs,
sometimes we only think we got it all when no one else is there.