Moral_Beliefs_in_the_Catcher_in_the_Rye

The book “The catcher in the rye” tackles moral beliefs of a certain person. Moral beliefs are lessons about the right or wrong behavior that is shown in a certain event. Holden has moral beliefs namely he thinks that everyone he comes in contact with are phonies except those who he think is pure and innocent and he wants to protect those he thinks are pure and innocent, He wanted to be the Catcher in the Rye because he doesn’t want the kids to be part of the phoniness of the adult world and Holden wants to take care of the youth and their childhood. The first moral beliefs of Holden is the phoniness of the adult world and he wants to protect those he thinks are pure and innocent. He goes away from society as a mean of self-protection from all the phonies, like alienating himself from society or what he calls the phoniness of the adult world. On my opinion I think alienation from society would cause some drastic changes on the environment and on ones self. A person may experience some physical problems or have psychological problems when isolated from society for a period of time. But in this case Holden feels lonesome and depressed. Holden said that he wanted to be the “Catcher in the Rye” to protect the kids or the pure and innocent from the phoniness of the adult world. Holden doesn’t want the pure and innocent to be affected with the phoniness of the adult world. My opinion about Holden’s belief is that he is scared of growing up and he doesn’t want the children to let go of their childhood, their dreams, especially those ignorant bills you have to worry about when you’re an adult. He can’t leave those childhood dreams of his or better yet he can’t face the problems he’s facing, those failing grades etc… My conclusion on his beliefs would be first: Holden should grow up and face his problems and be more mature, second: He should man up and take responsibility on his actions and face that he flunked and should try to work hard for his studies and lastly He should think before doing things or he’ll end up to things he never think would happen.