Re: view point
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:08:33 +1000
> I guess her teacher was telling
> the class that she hated Salinger because she felt that in he started or
> atleast furthered a negative stereotype about teenagers. (Catcher)
I can never work out this opinion although I've heard it many times. No,
perhaps that's not true. It's just one that I disagree with. To me TCIR is
a positive story in the end. And believe me, my whole job is to go around
defending teenagers and the bad reputation of young people in general - I
like go around to schools doing speeches about how teenagers are in many
ways one of the most marginalised groups in society, etc. But I always
recommend that teenagers read TCIR because of the wonderful experiences
I've had with it in playwriting classes I've taught - kids crying as they
write, realising that their own voice is valid and that someone else feels
like them.
>I figure
> she must have missed the point of the story or read it as an adult with
little
> understanding of teenage feelings/thoughts
How true. And how sad. But I've found one of the overweening experiences of
life is finding profound annoyance in people like that who miss the point
by such a big margin. It seems to happen a lot with TCIR.
Camille
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