Social Awareness

          Some social issues in my book, The Catcher In The Rye, is that Holden is very depressed. He finds no real great qualities in people or anything for that matter. He doesn't really have friendships that stick. Friends come and go and it doesn't seem to bother him. But that doesn't exclude the fact that he is longing for some type of companionship. He's only had some sort of relationship as a kid with his neighbor, her name was Jane. They would hang out all the time and not give a care in the world. But when he went to college he lost contact with her. Since then he has gotten the "axe" from three separate colleges.

          Some people who change the world everyday are high profile criminals. All the crimes they commit have a huge impact on the media. They feed them money by committing these outrageous crimes. Like the man who shot the congresswoman, that story is still being talked about on the news almost one year later. That's how a lot of the media makes money. Newspapers, online news, news television channels all thrive on these stories.

          Looking around my school I can identify multiple groups of people. From the loners to the popular crowd. They all sort of stick together. Some are part of multiple groups. Often most people as the years progress lose some friends and are no longer apart of that group. I have friends that hang out in multiple groups. There are more groups the people who play basketball everyday, the "gamers", and the kids who hang out in the lunchroom everyday.