Fear of failure. That's one of the reasons J.D. Salinger hid himself after becoming widely known. We all know that he was running away from fame and people's attention, but what exactly would make him really want to do that? It seems to me that he was afraid, if not bothered, by people's judgement. To me, he was afraid to be famous and to have his privacy taken away. Trying to avoid it, he decided to restrict himself rather than live a life restricted by others.
The connections we can make in comparison to Salinger's life and his book is that he flunked out of schools. He probably wasn't the best model of behavior for a kid.
Salinger appealed to people who thought simililarly to Clausfield, majority of them being adolescents. It was a revolutionary rebel book.
quarta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2010
quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2010
Connection to Holden
Holden Caulfield demonstrates to be a very observant person. He not always expresses that, and his behavior almost hardly never shows what he really thinks about something. I think that is my main connection with Holden: the hypocrisy of not liking something, or thinking bad about something, but even though living with it, without showing it to others. I believe my reason would be different thought. Holden seems to do that because he couldn't care less. I do that because I try to keep a state of welfare around me. I think about a lot of stuff, and I would be lying if I said I don't judge people. But the difference is that I don't let my judgment reach my behavior. In other words: I try to treat people equally.
Holden really dislikes movies and criticizes society and the way people act. I feel connected with that sentiment on movies, and consequently the way people act. I really think people are "phony", like Holden would say, in the movies, and it makes me mad that the movies influence people to act like that in real life. Movies are normally too dramatic for no reason, and people take those stories as facts. Then, inevitable, people start basing their lives on the movies! And it should be the opposite: movies based in real life. People wish they were living in a movie picture, so they add drama and problems that they don't have, but the truth is that real life has no soundtrack.
Like Holden said, sometimes, movies make want to puke. And I really feel physically nauseated with people's attitude.
Holden really dislikes movies and criticizes society and the way people act. I feel connected with that sentiment on movies, and consequently the way people act. I really think people are "phony", like Holden would say, in the movies, and it makes me mad that the movies influence people to act like that in real life. Movies are normally too dramatic for no reason, and people take those stories as facts. Then, inevitable, people start basing their lives on the movies! And it should be the opposite: movies based in real life. People wish they were living in a movie picture, so they add drama and problems that they don't have, but the truth is that real life has no soundtrack.
Like Holden said, sometimes, movies make want to puke. And I really feel physically nauseated with people's attitude.
quarta-feira, 3 de fevereiro de 2010
JD Salinger speculation
The attractiveness behind reading Salinger's books is not just for his style of writing, or his profanity, but the kind person that he'd become after fame. Unlike other writers and persons who became famous, Salinger preferred to hide and get away from the media. It seems that it wasn't just his character in "The Catcher in the Rye" who didn’t like "phony people".
It is quite unusual, thought. We think that the first reaction after writing bestsellers would be to publish more books. Salinger kept writing, as far as we know, but refused to publish his work. It is believed that he wrote every morning and had finished more than 15 novels.
Obviously, if Salinger was already a living mystery, after dead he'll become a legend. If the guy was a compulsive writer that "just wrote for the heck of it", I'm sure more books will be found.
Should we expect for innovation? There is no way to know. All we can do now is to hope that the ones responsible for his heritage agree to publish the works that haven’t been published when he was alive.
It is quite unusual, thought. We think that the first reaction after writing bestsellers would be to publish more books. Salinger kept writing, as far as we know, but refused to publish his work. It is believed that he wrote every morning and had finished more than 15 novels.
Obviously, if Salinger was already a living mystery, after dead he'll become a legend. If the guy was a compulsive writer that "just wrote for the heck of it", I'm sure more books will be found.
Should we expect for innovation? There is no way to know. All we can do now is to hope that the ones responsible for his heritage agree to publish the works that haven’t been published when he was alive.
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