The Catcher in the Rye: Chapter 22

Journal Entry
#29
October 12, 2007
Chapter 22
Page 173 Paragraph 7
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"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

Holden just showed that he wants to be a little kids hero. He loves little kids, it shows, the way he talks about his younger brother Allie, and his sister Pheobe. He is like most people because he likes little kids, and he likes them for their inocents. They do stuff, but the don't care who sees them. Holden likes kids because they don't change, and they don't expect him to act a certain way. Kids don't have a specific way that they expect you to act, but you should act right around you because they are like sponges and soak up everything you do.