6.) Select a work and show how a change in the state of life of the character was a frightening process and led to destruction or to a "cleansing by fire." In JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, a troubled teenager named Holden Claufield struggles with the fact that everyone has to grow up. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nights alone in New …showed first 75 words of 423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 423 total…he had the sudden urge to go into the museum that he had visited as a child in order to bring back memories of his childhood. However, when he finally reached the museum, all of the sudden he decided not to. "Then a funny thing happened. I wouldn't go in for a million bucks. It just did not appeal to me…" (page 122). This shows Holden's sudden metamorphosis from a child to an adult. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**