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Who is the modern-day, urban Holden Caulfield?

Asked by LauraQ (2points) February 23rd, 2008

Holden lived in NYC, but he didn’t go to school there. For urban high school students reading Catcher in the Rye, it can be hard to connect initially, but once they see the universal themes they generally have lots to say. I’ve got a bunch of kiddos this year who are probably going to take a while to get to the “universal themes”, so I’d like to hook them in with more contemporary—and preferably urban—parallels…but I can’t think of any!!

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