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Since the day The Catcher in the Rye found itself on the bookshelves of homes, libraries, and classrooms in 1951, it has been an exquisite example of teenage hardships and struggles. The author, JD Salinger, expresses his view of adolescence through the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden’s journey embodies a search of belonging and innocence through a young adult's life. Salinger connects with adolescent readers as he creates a true-to-life, genuine teenager in Holden, who sustains actual teenage despairs such as confusion, uncertainty, and the search of truth in the adult world. As Holden struggles to survive everyday of his life, he realizes that his childhood is ending, yet he has no place to belong to in the adult world. His confusion of where he fits in, in the world leads him on journeys in his life, which certify his confusion. In Holden’s final days at Pencey High, he was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where would the ducks go. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to the zoo or somethi