"The Watcher in the Wheat Field" is a story about a naughty child who does not study hard and fights with others and runs away from home.

The protagonist Holden is a 16-year-old middle school student who was born in a wealthy middle-class family.

He wore a windbreaker and a hunting hat all day long, wandering around and unwilling to study.

He was so tired of all the teachers, classmates, homework, football games, etc. in the school. Another semester was over. He was expelled from the school for failing four of the five homework.

He didn't feel uncomfortable at all. After fighting with his classmates in the same room, he left school late at night and returned to New York City.

But he didn't dare to go home rashly, and stayed in a small hotel late that night.

In the next two days, he wandered around and spent money to find a woman, but when the woman came, he was scared again and ended up being beaten up.

He couldn't stand his girlfriend's false intentions, so he broke up with her, went to the movie alone, and went to the bar to get drunk with an old classmate.

He walked into the toilet, put his head into the washbasin and soaked in cold water for a while before he woke up.

He thought that he might die of pneumonia and would never see his sister Fei Zi, so he decided to risk going home and say goodbye to her.

He returned home, told his depression and ideals to his sister, and told her that he would become a "watcher in the wheat field" in the future.

Later, when his parents came back, he slipped out of the house and met a teacher who might be gay, so he had to go to the waiting room of the station to spend the night.

Holden didn't want to go home or study anymore, so he decided to go to the west to make a living and pretend to be a deaf and dumb person.

Before leaving, he wanted to meet his sister and asked her to meet at the museum's art museum.

After a long time of appointment, Philip finally came, but he dragged a large box full of her clothes. She must go to the west with her brother.

In the end, because the persuasion to her sister was ineffective, Holden had to give up his trip to the west and took her to the zoo and the park for a while.

Philip rode a carousel and was happy.

It started to rain heavily. Holden sat on the bench in the rain. Seeing Philip wandering around and around, he felt very happy. He almost shouted and decided not to run away from home.

Shortly after returning home, Holden fell seriously ill and was sent to a nursing home.

He stayed in a nursing home and had no interest in which school he was sent to after being discharged from the hospital.

This is a novel describing the inner world of teenagers. The protagonist's anxiety about the future, anger about society, and confusion about himself can resonate with readers.

It does not belong to a certain era, but writes about the common problems encountered by adolescents.

Everyone has their own youth, which may be different from Holden's, but there are always some special features.

In 1774, the German poet Goethe wrote "The Troubles of the Young Wright", which is said to be an autobiographical novel.

Witt was born in a wealthy middle-class family. He was good at poetry and painting, loved nature, and was sentimental.

He accidentally met Lute, the daughter of a judge, and he fell in love with her, but Lute was already engaged.

Witt returned to the city and worked as a clerk in the embassy.

He adapted himself to the job as much as possible, but his bureaucratic superiors were nitpicking about his job and making things difficult for him everywhere. In the end, he angrily resigned.

When he encountered various injustice in society, he became more and more distressed and felt that there was no way out for life.

One day before Christmas, he came to his sweetheart Lute again, said his last farewell, left his suicide note and committed suicide.

In 1987, Yu Hua published a novel in "Beijing Literature", called "Going Away at the age of 18".

The 18-year-old protagonist was forced to go out to see the world by his father. He took the backpack handed over by his father and went out happily. What will be waiting for him?

He first exchanged a cigarette for a free ride, and was proud of it, a tractor that transported apples.

Later, the tractor broke down, and the surrounding mountain people snatched the apples from the car, and they even injured the blocking protagonist.

However, the real owner of Apple, the driver, was indifferent and laughed at the injured protagonist.

Finally, the driver snatched the protagonist's luggage and left with the mountain villagers. The protagonist became the only victim, standing alone in front of the broken tractor.

These absurd things are like a bomb that destroys the protagonist's original values.

The protagonist went out for the first time with enthusiasm and dreams when he was eighteen years old, but the real world gave him a blow.

The novel uses absurd techniques to show the various experiences of youth when they move into the adult world in their growth stage: ideals and reality, struggle and helplessness, cruelty and warmth, loss and harvest, etc.

Yu Hua's article "Going Out at the Age of Eighteen" was influenced by Kafka and showed the reality of the world in absurdity.

In 2006, Jin He wrote another article "Chinese Style Youth".

The protagonist is Li Xiangyang, who is a superman born in China. This is a story about Li Xiangyang and Dingding.

Lin Zixuan felt that he wrote better than "The Legend of Wukong", at least he thought he understood it and felt deeply moved.

The above are all novels describing how young people face the real world, whether they are fighting or compromise?

What kind of youth should we spend?

In 1962, Bob Dylan's song "Floating with the Wind" caused a huge response across the United States and even the world.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, American rebellious young men, known as the "Beat Generation", played the old guitar and hummed this song written for opposing the Vietnam War, rebuilding a new culture in doubt.

In 1994, the movie "Forrest Gump" was released.

The "Beat Generation" who was no longer young, rushed into the cinema and watched the movie, listened to "Floating with the Wind" over and over again, and looked back at every memory fragment of their youth with those shots.

They felt that they were the group of people following Forrest Gump, running through their youthful eras constantly.

When they look back on the past, they will say that I will always be on the road and never figure out where I am going. As for my ideals, I never know what that is.

Returning to "The Watcher in the Rye", Holden looked at the world coldly and felt that he was a bystander.

He has no motivation to live. There are not many times in this world that can make him move, except watching his sister ride her beloved Trojan in the heavy rain.

Holden's heart was full of restlessness and dissatisfaction. He didn't understand what he could pursue, nor did he understand what the meaning of what adults pursued. He laughed at this and that, and in the end he didn't know what to do.

The youth spent in every era is different, but there are always some things that are in common.
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