The plot: Holden's story begins on the Saturday following the end of classes at the Pencey prep school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. Pencey is Holden's fourth school; he has already failed out of three others. At Pencey, he has failed four out of five of his classes and has received notice that he is being expelled, but he is not scheduled to return home to Manhattan until Wednesday. He visits his elderly history teacher, Spencer, to …showed first 75 words of 1718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1718 total…be a little selfish. In this case Holden was very selfish. But he stuck to his friends. That is a very important message. My own opinions: This was a very exiting book to read. The environment was thrilling and it was coincided almost by the teenage environment today, almost. I enjoyed reading this book a lot because of that. I liked the parts when he was in New York, that part was thrilling and speciall.