catcher in the rye
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Have a little read: ... How does Salinger use authorial technique to present Holden as a) a teenager b) suffering a breakdown? In this essay I will show how Salinger uses authorial techniques to present Holden as a teenager and how Salinger uses authorial techniques to show Holden is suffering from a breakdown. Holden is the main character in the novel, the novel is told in first person, to show that Holden is having a conversation. An example of Salinger using authorial techniques is when Holden swears, this shows that he is a teenager, because a lot of teenagers choose to swear to express themselves, and a lot of teenagers swear so that they feel like an adult. It also shows that Holden's parents haven't brought him up very well, because he doesn't see anything wrong with swearing. Another technique Salinger uses to present Holden, as a teenager is slang. Holden uses slang because he
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