Literary Criticism

In my opinion literary criticism should provide an insight as well as critique on pieces of work. Everyday we take in account the opinion of others about movies, classes, cities, and etc. The opinion of others can be a big factor to whether or you will go and see that movie or take that class and etc. Literary criticism is just an experts opinion of a piece of work which gives an intelligent and citical analyses of it.

After reading J. D. Salingers "Teddy", I was rather shocked and slightly disturbed. The character Teddy is a ten year old boy who speaks and acts as though he should be a 50+ wise old man. He is very articulate and dissociates himself from worldy possessions and materials. Teddy tends to carry very philosophical conversations. His family seemes to not even pay attention to how intellectual Teddy was and didn't really take his conversations very seriously. I honestly think that his character was very unreal because any 10 year old child will not be so enlightened as Teddy was. Also they way he wrote in his journal was as if he was an older gentleman. On the other hand, the book was very intriguing and interesting from beginning to end.