The Holden of My Life

          In the book The Catcher In The Rye Holden is a very peculiar character that I've grown quite fond of. He's a very depressed college dropout that finds no value in people. He has very little friends  and none of his friendships ever last long. There's one thing that bugs me about him though, it's that just about everything depresses him. Sometimes things as little as people having crappy suitcases. I do like that he isn't afraid to speak his mind though. Like when he has an opinion he doesn't choke up and let people push him around he'll try to stick up for himself and be his own person. The good thing about that is he always has new ideas. He was talking to this girl that was an old friend of his who is a phony sophisticated person. He was talking about them putting everything down and just going up to the mountains and living in a log cabin. She kept telling him he was being unreasonable and that they couldn't do this, but he just kept pouring out ideas on why they must do this. The problem with this is that his nature of being a mouth off usually gets him in lots of fights through his life. He's a pacifist so when he mouths off to people he's basically pouring gasoline in the fire, rousing the other guy up until he snaps. The guy will throw a punch and Holden won't defend himself, or fight back. I know this kid who is like Holden, he would talk back to anything you'd say. He wasn't a necessarily a pacifist but a bad fighter. He threw punches like he was knocking on a door. Me and my friends would always say that on e day someone was gonna teach him a lesson. Now I'm not gonna lie this kid was one of my good friends that I've known for a while and he was just being really annoying to be around with. He'd always say obnoxious things and just all around piss you off. So one day in 6th grade on the playground in the park this kid started picking on this one of my friends who was like ten times smaller than him. He started pushing him and shoving him down the slide and I guess I thought it was my duty to take action. so I told him to knock it off. We started pushing each other around and then I started punching, He'd pull my hair and I guess he didn't realize what was going on. Then it just stopped, I stopped punching and just walked away, adrenaline pumping through my body made me walk kinda funny. So yeah that was the day I taught one of my good friends a "lesson", we are still friends today and I guess you could say he cleaned up his act. But It's different with Holden. He's been beat up countless times and the lesson just won't stick. From all the stuff that has happened to him I hope he learns it soon. But I also don't. I like the character who Holden is. He has become my favorite book character. If he were to change so would the entire book. If he started acting like everyone else he'd become another phony. That's why i like Holden, he's different.