Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Topic: In the Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Holden continually and progressively shows his good moral character with parallels and symbolic reference to Christ, developing the theme of holding on to one's beliefs through much adversity. This essay did well because it contained numerous examples and discussed a topic often ignored. A character's moral nuances tend not to affect the structure of a novel. Whether …showed first 75 words of 1255 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1255 total…thought represented his idealism on numerous occasions as well. Though critics often portray Holden as an outsider and anomaly from humankind, he functioned in a way collectively done by the mass of American society. Bible motifs serve as a database and vantage point as to what good behavior is and what kind of reactions are appropriate for individual problems. So if one concludes Holden is bad, then all of humankind must be bad as well.