Raul Madrigal
Professor Hendricks
English Composition 2
1 December 2014
Bibliography

Salinger, J.D. “The Catcher in the Rye” Little, Brown and Company. Boston: 1945.
This source is the actual book The Catcher in the Rye which was written by J.D. Salinger. He writes of a boy, Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is a troubled teenager who switches between having a pompous attitude and feeling as if he is superior to others and then being aware of being alienated from his peers, to beginning to protect his innocence and that of other people. He begins to isolate himself from others because he doesn’t want to get hurt after losing a little brother, Allie. Other students looked down upon him and that is why he has possibly developed a dislike for other people. At first his isolation is more negative than positive. Holden is kicked out of the third school due to having poor grades. After being kicked out of school, he goes on a journey filled with various incidents that cause him to make grown up decisions. The story is narrated in first-person by Holden from a psychiatric hospital where Holden is for treatment.
A quotation I will be using in the book is “I am always saying ‘Glad to've met you’ to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though” (Salinger 87).

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“Catcher in the Rye the Alienation of Holden Caulfield” Humanities 360 Print. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014. Humanities 360 is a website regarding American Literature. I believe it is a valid source because it ends with .com in the web address. Through various college courses I have taken, I have learned that websites that end with .com in the address should be considered valid. This website depicts the alienation of Holden Caulfield and also talks about his character, specifically how hypocritical he can be at times. He says he hates phony people but he himself is phony at times. One incident is when he coincidently meets up with a fellow student’s mom on a train. He doesn’t like the fellow student yet lies to her about her son and how good of a person he is. The quote I will be using from the article is “On the train to New York he starts ‘shooting the crap’ to a lady who has a son that goes to Caulfield’s school. He tells her what a good student he is, even though he hates the kid’s guts” (Humanities 360).
"The Catcher in the Rye: The Voice of Alienation." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2014. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman. This nonprofit organization is devoted to the improvement of history education. It has developed many programs for educators and students. I will be using information from the institute website to show how Holden tried to alienate himself from others. The quotation I will be
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Graham, Sarah. “Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye”. Continuum International Publishing Group: New York. 2007. Web. 1 Dec. 2014.
In my opinion Dr. Sarah Graham is a valid source. She is a well-known author and is the Series Editor for Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction and Topics in Contemporary North American Literature. She is also a member at the University of Leicester and co-founder of the “Studies in Youth’ research network and she has organized conferences on the topic. The information I will be using from this book will be to support how controversial The Catcher in the Rye was in during the time it was published. The quote I am using is “However Salinger’s has attracted controversy as well as acclaim: although popular it has been removed from many high school reading list for fear that its expletives, sexual context, and the anti-social behavior of its protagonist may corrupt young readers” (Graham 1).

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on The Catcher in the Rye.” SparkNotes.com.
SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 1 Dec.. 2014.
Sparknotes.com is also a valid source. They are well known in the education field and have been known as a good source by university professors and educators. The information they
Madrigal 4 provide is always up to date and the website is free of errors and is well put together. The editors are well educated and have advanced degrees in various topics. I will be using this source to assist me in analyzing the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield and how a couple of traumatic incidents in his life may have made him the person he is. The quote I am using is “We know of two traumas in his past that clearly have something to do with his emotional state: the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his schoolmates. But, even with that knowledge, Holden’s peculiarities cannot simply be explained away as symptoms of a readily identifiable disorder” (SparkNotes).