#profanegraffiti

Hey blog! So today I wanted to talk about a symbol I found out in the book, well, while I was reading I found this scene where Holden goes to Phoebe school and he is shocked to see "F&^* You" written on the walls of the school and he tries to rub it out with his hands so the kids at the school won’t be able to see it and he starts wondering what that means. Later on, he finds it written in another part of the school and then again at the museum of Natural History. Well, then I started wondering what could the profane graffiti in the wall and the action of Holden trying to rub it out mean, cause it was obviously a symbol, and then I got to the conclusion that maybe that graffiti written in many walls that Holden wanted to erase could represent Holden’s inability to prevent the loss of innocence in others, this is because when he was trying to prevent kiddos to see it and he couldn’t make it, this is trying to say to us that maybe Holden can’t preserve children’s innocence and that he is not capable of doing it. This is the symbol that captured my attention the most, because there is obviously so much more.