Summer Reading, The Catcher in the Rye

Over the summer I read The Catcher in the Rye. It was a really good classic book about a moody teenager named Holden. It is kind of a difficult read but if you read it slowly and really think about it, its pretty amazing. This book is about Holden, he goes to this big fancy private school named Pencey. Holden had been kicked out of a bunch of different schools so sure enough, he gets kicked out of Pencey also. The head master told him that he can't come back after Christmas vacation. But instead Holden runs away a few days earlier then Christmas vacation and he has to stay in Manhattan all by himself for a few days. During which he sneaks into his house without his mom and dad finding out just to talk to his sister. He also becomes very lonely and depressed. I think this is an amazing book and i really enjoyed reading it. Holden is a really complicated character and he is very hard to figure out. Sometimes in the book you feel really bad for him because he is all alone and feels really depressed. But other times, he is a really mean person and can be a jerk to a lot of people. There are a lot of complicated themes/issues in this book. Of course there is loneliness and depression, but i also think another theme might be family. Holden older brother Allie died and i think that that really effected Holden. He thought a lot about Allie and would even talk to him sometimes even though he wasn't really there. Another part of family is, I don't think that Holden is very close to his parents. He ran away from school and instead of going home and telling is parents everything and being able to live there, he felt like he had to live by himself in Manhattan. Of course he would be scared to tell his parents that he got kicked out of school, anyone would have. But to rather live by yourself in a big city then go home, kind of says he doesn't have a great relationship with them.
Overall, i think that The Catcher in the Rye is a really fantastic book. It is a great classic and sometimes it might be hard to understand but if you just take it slowly, you will see that it isn't as much hard and a great read.