How are the conflicts in the book related to real life struggles? What specific elements of the text are especially relevant to the patterns of modern human interaction?

In the Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the conflicts are related to real life struggles because many teenagers these days are facing the reality of life and what they are facing ahead which is a tough struggle, which lean leads to this mental illness like Holden assumes to have.

In the Catcher in the Rye, an element of the text that is relevant to the pattern to the pattern of modern day human interaction is when Holden was at Pencey Prep and has virtually no friends because he was anti-social and socially awkward. This is relevant to real life interaction because these days because a greater amount of teenagers like Holden are fixated too much with their phones and consuls these days especially all children nowadays.

This Identifies the theme of innocence and naïve because it is closely related to the struggles he grew up with. Moreover, this demonstrates the theme of adolescence because, like Holden, these children growing up will not gain maturity until later on in their lives like Holden did, which is a poor path to follow. Overall, these difficulties can lead to mental illness and a loss of maturity, just as Holden has.