Books

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - This book is one of my favorite books because of the way it was written and the content. It is very controversial due to the stories portrayal of profanity, sexual experiences and other teenage things. A lot of the experiences that the main character, Holden, goes through can be related to most teenagers. So as a teenager myself reading this book in High School there was some stuff that I could relate to and found fascinating on how Holden dealt with them.

Night by Elie Weasel - I found this book to be much more influential then The Dairy of Ann Frank due to the fact that it was actually about a Jewish boys experiences with concentration camps. It was compelling to read about Eliezer’s struggle to keep his faith in God while going through the terrible experiences brought to him by the Nazis.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - What I enjoyed about this book was the interesting themes of moral decay. The American Dream was something that began to become a corrupt belief and greed and materialism began to take hold of people. What I enjoyed about this book was that I was able to compare and contrast the themes of moral and social decay to that of the 21st century. American is a place where many people are very materialistic and social values are changing drastically, so when reading The Great Gatsby I was interested in reading about what these themes were like in the 1920s.