Outside Reading

      I am reading Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and so far I think this book is very unique from the characters to just the whole way the story is going right now. The main character Holden Caulfield has a very weird outlook on everything, i really think he has a different way of looking at things in general. I don't think I have read enough of the book to make a likely guess of why Holden is the way he is and why he thinks the way he thinks. But one question about the book that has been bothering me this whole time, on the very first page he starts talking about his parents but stops because both of them are "touchy as hell" when it comes to saying personal things about them. That has gotten my attention all this time and I am very intrigued to find out the answer to this, because I have no clue why his parents are that way, he gives vague details so it makes my mind wonder all over the place from the fact that there are so many possibilities to everything he leaves me hanging on.
      One literary element that I would choose to reflect on in my creative project would have to be the main character so far but it may change as I read further on in the book. I don't know what it is but the main character Holden really hooks me in because there are so many possibilities as of what makes him think the way he does. I think that Holden plays a huge role in the story, but not just because he's the main character and all if that's what you are thinking but because he really builds the story, I know in a way that every little thing has something to do with the way he acts; for example his little brother died of leukemia so I bet that had a major effect on his behavior, his parents seem to be up tight so I can relate to how that could make him react, and he feels that everyone around him is phony so there has to be a missing piece to why he believes that everyone is fake.
       If I had to relate this novel to another, I wouldn't know what to do. I've never read anything with a character like Holden, I read allot of books about vampires and mystical creatures and stuff so I'm not sure on that bullet point. I've never read a book that gives so little details about so many things like in the beginning of the book he starts to say stuff about his parents, he tells what happened to his little brother but he doesn't say how the death affected him. The only idea that I have come up with to why he doesn't elaborate on his thoughts is because I believe J.D. Salinger has written this in a way to show that sometimes things don't need to be said, that maybe something has affected someone so much that they don't need to explain themselves, that after time maybe people just begin to realize how someone acts can give away the story behind it all. I'm not sure if that makes sense but in my head it does, it's sorta hard to explain some of the possibilities that run through my head during certain occasions.
      So far I'm thinking of doing a poster for my creative project. Possibly Holdens name in the middle of the poster and main details from the story that creates Holden, so that it would be reversible; if you start from the middle at his name and work your way out it would show how Holden creates the story, if you go from the outside in it would show how the story creates Holden. But I'm not sure yet, it could change by the time I finish the book.