Relationships with "Catcher and the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

                 With regards to the director of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, John Hughes, I do think, took many ideas from "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger. In addition to this, I also think that in the end, these two popular phenomenons will end with the same or similar messages; sometimes you just need to relax and be a teenager. I know that this is an extremely far-fetched claim, but I have a multitude of evidence. To start off, Ferris Bueller's Day Off came out in 1986, while "The Catcher in the Rye" came out in 1951. This shows how John Hughes brought an old classic into the late 1980's to become popular in that era as well as in the 1950 era. I also know that there have been many other sources targeting both of these topics. For instance, the song "We didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, mentions the novel and that just displays the importance it had in 1989, which was only three years away from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Luckily all three of these timeless memories are still here and appreciated today. 

                 Going along with Ferris and Holden, I almost feel like they are the exact same person! They both absolutely hate going to school, and are both extremely opinionated and hilarious. I find myself laughing super hard every time they think or say something. I predict that Holden will eventually learn his lesson that school is extremely important to your future, just as Ferris learned. If I could change one thing about Holden throughout the book though, I would change his inner thoughts, and make some of them outer so I could experience some of the other character's reactions to the his dialogue. You definitely see a lot of this in the film production, because thoughts aren't usually translated in movies towards an audience. 

               To conclude this blog post, I would like to make a few predictions to the future of the book. Because I have viewed the movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I can conclude that Holden will learn a very important lesson in the end that he avoided in the beginning of the book. That his history teacher, Mr. Stradlater, was right. He needs to start applying and learning instead of just being a rebel at every single school he attends. Sure there is a time and place for being crazy and being a teenager, but he must learn to act like an adult at sometime, and that should be now rather than later in life. As a High-School student, I know that it is easy to slack off and wait until the last minute, but I usually make sure it gets done, and hopefully Holden will too!

                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KFVLWX7eEY

                                          (Opening Monologue from Ferris Bueller's Day Off)