• About The Catcher in the Rye: 

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.Originally published for adults, it has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation.It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.

The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation.

• About the author of The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger

1. Jerome David Salinger (/ˈsælɪndʒər/; January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.
2. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work. In 1951, his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success.

• Protagonist:    A protagonist is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic or musical narrative, who enters conflict because of the antagonist. The audience is intended to mostly identify with the protagonist.
  The terms protagonist and main character are variously explained and depending on the source, may denote different concepts. In fiction, the story of the protagonist can be told from the perspective of a different character (who may also but not necessarily, be the narrator). An example would be a narrator who relates the fate of several protagonists - perhaps as prominent figures recalled in a biographical perspective. 

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• Climax of The Catcher in the Rye : 
  When Holden found the teacher he usually respected and admired. Later he was awaked as his teacher touched him when he was asleep. The moment he scared from the movement of his teacher made his imagination of adult's world totally distroyed.
  

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Page 8

• Life is a game.
• I get bored 我好無聊

Page 183 

• I was still feeling sort of dizzy or something and I had a helluva headache all of a sudden. (口語上的連接詞 為了不冷場。)

Page 186 

• Then he said, "Frankly, I don't know what the hell to say to you, Holden."  (口語用法，哼哼哈哈語)
• "I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind... (1)Are you listening to me?"
  (Kind of 口語上的連接詞)(... 刪節號只需要三點)

Page 188

• "...Here's what he- (2)Are you still with me?"

問別人有沒有在聽的三種用法:

1.Are you listening to me?

2.Are you still with me?

3.Do you follow me at all?

• "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."                     (Wilhelm Stekel, Chap. 24)
  (一個不成熟男子的標記,是他願意為某種原因英勇的死去，一個成熟男子的標記,是他願意為某種原因謙卑的活著)

Page 190

• What a rude bastard. 真糟糕!

Page 191

• "Oh- Jane Gallagher. She's all right. I'm probably gonna give her a buzz tomorrow."
  ( 口語用法的打電話給誰) 
• Climax: Then something happened.
• Boy! / Oh boy !  不直呼上帝的名字

Page 192

• What the hellya doing = What the hell are you doing?
• How 'bout = How about