Moral Beliefs in the Catcher in the Rye

The book “The catcher in the rye” tackles moral beliefs of a certain person. Moral
beliefs are lessons about the right or wrong behavior that is shown in a certain
event.   Holden has moral beliefs namely he thinks that everyone he comes in
contact with are phonies except those who he think is pure and innocent and he
wants to protect those he thinks are pure and innocent, He wanted to be the
Catcher in the Rye because he doesn’t want the kids to be part of the phoniness
of the adult world and Holden wants to take care of the youth and their childhood.

The first moral beliefs of Holden is the phoniness of the adult world and he wants
to protect those he thinks are pure and innocent. He goes away from society as
a mean of self-protection from all the phonies, like alienating himself from society
or what he calls the phoniness of the adult world.

On my opinion I think alienation from society would cause some drastic changes
on the environment and on ones self. A person may experience some physical
problems or have psychological problems when isolated from society for a period
of time. But in this case Holden feels lonesome and depressed.

Holden said that he wanted to be the “Catcher in the Rye” to protect the kids or
the pure and innocent from the phoniness of the adult world. Holden doesn’t
want the pure and innocent to be affected with the phoniness of the adult world.
My opinion about Holden’s belief is that he is scared of growing up and he
doesn’t want the children to let go of their childhood, their dreams, especially
those ignorant bills you have to worry about when you’re an adult. He can’t leave
those childhood dreams of his or better yet he can’t face the problems he’s
facing, those failing grades etc…

My conclusion on his beliefs would be first: Holden should grow up and face his
problems and be more mature, second: He should man up and take
responsibility on his actions and face that he flunked and...