J. D. Salinger’’s Catcher in the Rye Compared to Mark Twain’’s Huckleberry Finn All famous American authors have written novels using a variety of characters, plots, and settings to illustrate important themes. Throughout literary history many of the same themes have been stressed in different novels. In J. D. Salinger’’s The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain’’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, each author writes about the common theme of …showed first 75 words of 2028 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2028 total…end that they play minor roles in life and loss of innocence is inevitable in the emergence of adulthood. In J. D. Salinger’’s The Catcher in the Rye and Mark Twain’’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn both authors stress the themes of coming of age and loss of innocence to prove the point that everyone grows up and passes into adulthood. They show that this is a natural and unavoidable part of life.