Which book is easiet to compare to "Catcher in the Rye?"?

Question

I have to create an essay comparing Catcher in the Rye and another novel. The essay could be any topic I want. Here are the books I can compare them to.

The Oresteia (trilogy) by Aeschylus
Sense abd Sensibility by Jane Austen
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Chistopher Marlowe
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Henry V or King Lear by William Shakespeare
War and Peace (unabridged) by Leo Tolstoy

Answer 1

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"Angela's Ashes" is about growing up like "Catcher". That's one way these two are the same.

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

well, I don;t know if your teacher will let you, but I did the same assignment in high school and I did it on "A farewell to arms" by Hemingway. It sounds odd, I know, but I found that it was a good comparison in the sense that it was about a boy growing up in chaos. The styles are VERY different, but in FTA and CITR they both are thrust into a world that is quite cold and scary. See if your teacher will let you. It's a good assignment

Answer 4

The only one I've read is Like Water For Chocolate, and that doesn't really fit. I saw the movie of A Passage to India, and it doesn't exactly work either...sorry, I can only tell you what not to do!