Holden Caufield emphasizes on the loss of innocence in children. He feels that once they lose their innocence, they will soon turn into phonies like everyone else. The loss of innocence is very common in the development in human existence. It is caused by many factors. Past a certain age, children are either forced or led unintentionally into a pathway of corruption. A child is also known to lose their innocence by desires, fantasies, and …showed first 75 words of 1935 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1935 total…isn't comfortable in this world and that he has many questions to be answered about life. Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Claud, John. "Just a Routine School Shooting" TIME May 31, 1999 pages 34-43 2. Daley, Suzanne. "Runaways of 42nd Street: AIDS Begins its Scourge" http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/aids/ May 30, 1998 3. Magil, Frank N. (Editor). Masterpieces of American New York, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc. 1993 4. Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David). Catcher in the Rye Massachusetts, Little Brown and Company 1951