I bought this book about one and half year ago, but finally read and finished it by the end of last month. I found this book quite good (if not really good) and want to put some part of it in my blog -- not just for you, readers, but mainly for myself so I can recall it any time.
The book is actually about Holden Caufield, after being dropped out of school, fled from his family for 48 hours. I think these paragraphs quoted from the book, which are Mr. Antollini's preaching, will sum up what Holden had been through.
I don't want to scare you, but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.
... The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. |